The Last Hurrah  9 weeks to closing

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Still an unbelievable amount of work to get from here to where we wanted to be by Thanksgiving Day

The main run of base cupboards would have to negotiate a bit of an obstacle course,  furnace, water heater, pipes and wheel arch all have to be accommodated

I tied myself in knots trying to figure out what Anthony had for sale on Kijiji and if and  how we could use them.     My plans sort of made sense at the time and it did work out beautifully if not without it's challenges.  Tony wanted nothing to do with trying to make someone else's cupboards fit an existing trailer lay out,  he had fallen for that once before.   I promised him Samantha and I could do it ourselves.   Then we did.   He accepted the plumbing and electrical challenges posed by the repurposed cabinets

                   Kitchen Cupboards From kijiji

                                  Upper                    Width          Height
                                                                                31       x    23
                                                                31.5     x    31.6
                                                                 27.5   x    31.6
                                                                31.5   x    23.5
                                                                33      x    17.5
                                                               15.75  x    31.5
                                                                31.5   x    17.5
                                                                25.5   x    31.6
                                  Lower                                                                                                                                                             15.75  x   35.5
                                                                        15.75  x   35.5 ( draw )
                                                                         31.5   x    35.5
                                                                         31.5   x    35.5
                                                                         39 .5  x    35.5 ( L) 

      Kitchen Layout                                            

          Lowers   From right  Hand Side
          12" deep cupboard to be decided               12

          Stove                                                           20

          Base with half sink                                      31.5            93"

          Second base with half sink                         31.5           

          Drawers or not                                            15.75

          Drawers or not                                            15.75         124"

          Converted wall cupboard                            27.5           152"

          Of possible                                                                    160"

          Or if I screwed up  converted wall               25.5       

       Pantry, Fridge & Tea Station                                                              

        Lower                                                        Width

         Wall Cupboard on plinth                              31.5

        Wall Cupboard on plinth                               15.75

        Fridge on plinth                                             24"

 

        Upper

        Wall cupboard                                     31.5 X 23                   Wall cupboard                                     31.5 X 17.5

        Fill in shelf for trays etc                         9" approx   

What to do about ceiling panels with the vinyl covering peeling away?   Fortunately we had time to come up with a plan.  We removed the vinyl with a hairdryer to melt the adhesive and trimmed edges with 1"x4" trim

 

 

 

 

All wires sockets and switches marked as per the wiring plan
                            Tony ironing?  There's a first
The last job in the trailer was installing the Kitchen cabinet doors which  I had been painting for weeks.   Now they would have 7 months to cure before being used
 

The all important beverage station base units could not be standard depth.  We used wall cupboards mounted 3" off the wall to give the desired depth.  The fridge is standing on a 4" plinth to the level of the wheel arch cover

If we knew then what we know now             

 

It was a long hard road from August 2014 to October 2015.  We achieved such a lot in the as the park was only open for 7 of the 14 months   Apart from all the physical work, Samantha and I put in countless hours shopping.  Many Saturday mornings we would comb Habitat For Humanity for finds and bargains

When home we would check  Kijiji for furniture, building materials, kitchen cabinets etc. most of which required a lot of work to become what we wanted

We combed the area around the fire where people dumped rocks they dug from their lots, brought them back, washed them off and put around the newly designated garden areas.  When we wanted specimen rocks we went to see Robert at the local quarry.   He gave us great prices on beautiful granite as he was amused that we wanted to buy them.  Most people locally just dug them out of the ground.  Also, we saved him the cost and trouble of turning them into gravel.    Samantha who has always had a passion for rocks, thought of it as rescuing them 

            Furniture stored, ready to close up
 

Mojo loves it at the river, taking his role as comfort dog very seriously.   He buries his head when it's time for the weekenders to leave.   If by chance  he is staying  with us, he perks right up as the car pulls away.   But the mist is on the river now and we are all going home

 
2016 is deck and garden year.  Roll on Opening Day 2017
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