Campervan Cabinet Making

We explain what to consider when building your bed frame and cabinets in your camper van conversion.

Campervan cabinet making. 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. When building the cabinet boxes frames i used a heavy duty construction adhesive at all the joints in addition to the provided hardware. That is where wood design rv comes in. J j are also keen campervanners and have just embarked on their second tour of nz in a v posh 4 berth campervan.

Designing our camper van cabinets. It s cheap strong it looks nice and it s easy to work with. It also requires a minimal amount of tools. The majority are made out of wood and that s probably what you ll be building yours out of too.

Having a freezer was super nice because we could stock up on extra. We use a dometic crx 50 fridge that fit into our campervan kitchen perfectly after making a few adaptions to the cabinet. This should make those connections more durable and reliant if the. The build part was made easier by buying ready built cabinets from bunnings.

We wanted clean lines slick grey faces and modern door pulls. 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. After finishing our paneling it was time to tackle the bed frame and cabinets.

Making them work in a van. 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. Making to most of the small amount of space that we had was the biggest challenge while building our cabinets. Be sure to watch the end of the video for the finished product full blog post with tool and part list.

Let s face it when we buy a new rv it is typically not set up to exactly fit our needs. There are some important things i did to minimize the limitations of these ikea cabinets in a camper van context. We topped it all off with square white countertops.