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Part 9 — Kitchen cabinets, sink, and stove
How to Build a DIY Travel Trailer: Kitchen Cabinets, Sink, Stove (Part 9)
Source: How to Build a DIY Travel Trailer: Kitchen Cabinets, Sink, Stove (Part 9) · 2019-03-27 · 14:42
What Joe did
- Built the lower kitchen cabinet with pocket holes, drawer space, a sink opening, and a low compartment for pots and pans.
- Ripped 1-by-3 lumber for face frames, then made matching doors and drawer fronts with plywood panels.
- Made a stainless-steel backsplash from remnant pieces instead of buying a full sheet.
- Built a plywood countertop, installed a stainless sink, and planned a foot pump for fresh water with a removable bucket for gray water.
- Sized drawers around a Coleman Triton stove and left room to slide out the Dometic cooler.
Numbers
| What | Value | Where in the video |
|---|---|---|
| Face-frame width | just over 2 inches | ripped down to a width of just over 2 inches |
| Upper cabinet | about 15 1/2 inches tall; about 10 1/2 inches deep | about 15 and a half inches tall in about ten |
| Full stainless sheet | $107 | spend a hundred and seven dollars on the full sheet |
| Stainless remnants | about $15 | it cost me about 15 bucks |
| Backsplash angle | 1 inch by 1 inch | held in place with one inch by one inch aluminum |
| Countertop plywood | 1/2 inch | countertop it is just half-inch plywood |
| Cooler | Dometic CFX 65W | Dometic cooler this is this CFX 65w |
Materials and parts
| Item | Detail as Joe says it |
|---|---|
| Cabinet framing | 2-by-2 lumber; pocket-hole construction |
| Face frames and doors | 1-by-3 lumber ripped to about 2 inches; plywood panels |
| Backsplash | stainless-steel remnants from Industrial Metal Supply; 1-by-1 aluminum angle |
| Countertop | 1/2-inch plywood laminated to 1-by-3s |
| Sink | stainless-steel sink from Amazon |
| Appliances | Coleman Triton stove; Dometic CFX 65W cooler |
| Water setup | foot pump; fresh-water tank; removable bucket for gray water |
Tools Joe used
- Pocket-hole jig and driver
- Router
- Sander
Tips and mistakes
- He corrected drawer-slide clearance by notching the cabinet after a measuring error.
- Putting heavy pots and pans low lets them sit on the floor instead of loading a drawer.
For my build
- Nathan: Lay out the cooler, stove, sink, and water containers before fixing cabinet widths for your different floor plan.
- Nathan: A foot-pump sink and removable gray-water bucket are simple options to compare against your own water plan.
- Nathan: Remnant metal can reduce finish costs, but save the budget for the power system and basic tools.