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Happy Wife, Happy Life!
Well, we are all done the modifications to our cabinetry in our new rig. They turned out great. We have some pictures for you in this post
First off the cabinet that we had installed in our Living Area. You may remember it like this from a previous post:
When TJ Allison first installed it, the doors that he ordered didn't look "good enough, so he reordered them and we went to Florida with it like it was above. Today they installed the doors, so, here's a couple pictures of it - one with the doors open and the other with them closed:
Doors may be just "aesthetic" but they sure do add to the beauty and make this look like it's right "at home" between the TV/Fireplace Cabinet and the Dinette Cabinet.
The next item we had them replace was the overhead in the bedroom between the TV and the half-bath. If you were REALLLY alert you may remember it looking like this in an earlier post:
The above picture - if you LOOK close at the top of the cabinet you can see that there is white "ceiling" in front of the cabinet above it. That's because it was only about 8" deep as seen BELOW, after it was taken down:
Below is a picture showing the depth of the Overhead cabinet going into the same spot showing it is 16" deep. We DOUBLED the storage space in this cabinet - HOORAY -storage is
E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G to people who full-time in there RVs.
Here's a picture of my hand and forearm fully extended showing the cabinet depth after it has been hung on the ceiling and walls:
Here's a picture of the newly hung cabinet empty:
And here is a picture of the cabinet with what we have kept in it to this time. This amount of stuff used to FILL THE OLD CABINET to the gills. Now it looks SO lonely in the cabinet and I swear I can hear the cabinet screaming "FEED ME MORE STUFF, IRENE. I MOCK YOUR PUNY ATTEMPT TO FILL ME!!"
Below is a picture of the cabinet closed and if you look above it you can see very little of the white ceiling because it's all INSIDE the cabinet now.
The third and final modification that TJ completed for us tonight was a makeover of our Main Bathroom Medicine Cabinet. Previously it looked like this:
If you look closely at the cabinet you can see that the distance from the cabinet mirrors to the back of the sink is about 6 inches and that it doesn't even come out from the wall as far as the box of tissues sitting directly under it to the right of the 4-socket receptacle.
Below is a picture of irene measuring the depth of cabinet while it is still up on the wall:
You can see that is measures 3 1/2" from the back wall to the frontside of the center support behind the center face piece.
Here's a picture showing the depth of our new medicine cabinet:
Irene's NEW and IMPROVED medicine cabinet is a full 8 1/2" deep. Almost 2.5 x DEEPER therefore it has 2.5 x the cubic footage the old one did. The REAL advantage is that now larger bottles of medicine easily fit in the medicine cabinet.
Below is a picture of the medicine cabinet open:
In the above picture you can see the 2 ADJUSTABLE shelves (the old medicine cabinet had fixed shelving) which are deep enough to probably use one section of the top shelves to store folded washcloths in.
Below is a picture of the completed medicine cabinet. The same mirrored glass doors that were on the old cabinet were reused for the remodeled, vastly improved NEW cabinet.
On another note, we spent about 3 hours today with David and Brenda Bott. We FINALLY got that lunch eaten together. We talked about our shared Winnebago experience at lunch and then after lunch they came over and we showed them our rig "buttoned up" for travel and then opened it up and showed it to them for use. We also showed them what modifications we had done TO THAT POINT.
AFTER TJ was done with all of our modifications tonight we invited them back over to the rig - FULLY DRESSED out in all of its new found glory. We talked for about 1 1/2 hours about the rig we have and the rig they have ordered that starts it's build TOMORROW MORNING at 6 AM. HOO-RAY for them.
I end this post by noting that our time spent with the Bott's today didn't make "the cut" on their excellent blog "Outside Our Bubble." Brenda had a long in-depth post about the excitement awaiting them with nary a mention of Jim and Irene. SNIFFLE, SNIFFLE, BLUBBER :-(. Where is the love? Can someone get me a hankie please?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Just busting your chops, guys. It was terrific to see you again and spend the time we did sharing the RV "war stories." Your T-Shirt idea is ABOVE top-rate. Have a wonderful 4 weeks watch your rig go from a bare chassis to the coach of your dreams.
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