Kitchen check in.

The counter is old redwood fencing. The boards covering some of the sink are to add counter when needed and are not attached. The drawer faces, from the top, are from a scrap waiting since 2005; next two are taken from that found drawer; the last is doubled up wood previously used on the larger shelves, what used to be there, as backstops and support. Can you tell I am excited to finally be using these treasures? Full disclosure: the first and last are actually cabinet doors. The bracket on the right is part of a larger plan to make getting the bikes in smoother, something long anticipated. See that board on the window? That is to make it so I don’t have to worry about it being broken by some handlebars. While the heater (a barely visible black box on the floor towards the right) is a pain too unless the pedals are just right, I’m more interested in leaving than taking the time to make it so.

Here we are looking at the found counter top, courtesy of one of those bike rides at Joaquin Miller. It is cardboard inside, which made for gushy cutting. Meaning a couple seconds of easy and then stickyish. The three black thingies on the wall are switches. One for the fridge, one for the propane solenoid and alarm, and the last for the water pump. They have a little light when on. The wide piece of wood with all the holes is the face of the drawer which resides over the mighty fridge slider currently occupied by a vacuum and some tools in a box. The holey drawer’s bottom has more and larger holes, all of which are to assist with fridge air circulation. Ideally enough to make a difference. You can just make out the propane locker sitting on the plywood shelf closest to the rear door whose lower window is partially blocked by the white 5 gallon bucket and on the far side of the blue pex. The smaller rectangle of ply on the propane locker itself is the lower part of what will hold the L5 water heater, the end of the line for that pex. Definitely taking off the section of counter when using the water heater by the way, which is the second reason for the seam, the first being getting access to the propane locker’s insides. That trim which runs the back of the counter lengthwise is also stunningly old, and is what remains from a mirror mounting project. Its job is to help keep the removable piece in place in a removable manner. I planned on using eye hooks to connect the counter’s front to the 2×4 underneath. However, the cardboard counter has no real place to screw into, which makes eye hooks, etc pretty flimsy. I think I’ll remove some cardboard and glue a piece of wood in the newly created void. The propane alarm is just below the plywood holding the locker, white, and is nearly lost in the black of the floor.

To come is a less deep counter covering most the area in front of the door. I can only go part of the way across at a normal height because of the bike seats. That’ll be where the stove sits.

I threw out some scraps today. First time since starting this thing last November. Did some cleaning too.

Can you feel the anticipation???