Campervan Cabinet Making

We wanted clean lines slick grey faces and modern door pulls.

Campervan cabinet making. Making them work in a van. That is where wood design rv comes in. Our custom cabinetry can be built to fit into basically any space and shape. Our inspiration on our cabinets was to be modern and sleek.

Designing our camper van cabinets. A lot of people go with a chest style fridge but we like the appearance of a built in fridge because it looks more finished plus it comes with a freezer which chest style fridges usually don t have. There are some important things i did to minimize the limitations of these ikea cabinets in a camper van context. It s cheap strong it looks nice and it s easy to work with.

We explain what to consider when building your bed frame and cabinets in your camper van conversion. We opted to make our bed frame really sturdy so build it by hand out of timber then cad up the kitchen unit and cabinets and cnced them out of 12mm birch plywood. Be sure to watch the end of the video for the finished product full blog post with tool and part list. We use a dometic crx 50 fridge that fit into our campervan kitchen perfectly after making a few adaptions to the cabinet.

When building the cabinet boxes frames i used a heavy duty construction adhesive at all the joints in addition to the provided hardware. After finishing our paneling it was time to tackle the bed frame and cabinets. J j are also keen campervanners and have just embarked on their second tour of nz in a v posh 4 berth campervan. There are probably as many cabinet styles as there are campervans.

Let s face it when we buy a new rv it is typically not set up to exactly fit our needs. The build part was made easier by buying ready built cabinets from bunnings. Making to most of the small amount of space that we had was the biggest challenge while building our cabinets. This should make those connections more durable and reliant if the.

We topped it all off with square white countertops. Having a freezer was super nice because we could stock up on extra. It also requires a minimal amount of tools.