Toilet cabinet and other finishing touches

 Day 280: Making templates for the bathroom.  Butcher block to cut and shape, another complicated fan folding door and a bunch of weird angles to contend. 

Day 282: Installed the drop leaf countertop.  Note the bottom corner is cut at an angle cause like everything else in this build nothing square fits.  It looked like a perfect fit until we tried to close the sliding side door.

Flips up and bang more counter space.

    Day 285: Test fitting the mountain bike under the garage.

    

Installed the toilette, finally!  Fan fold doors completed and installed.  Well until I realized that the anchor screw holes are not supposed to be visible.  Dooh!  Now I have to take it down and reinstall.

Day 286: And the paper towel rack arrived.  We actually ordered 2 of them but one cam with missing pieces and a hole in the wrong place.  So, it went back.

Day 287: Collapsible broom arrives.  This will fit nicely underneath the counter top beside the toilette

Located the roof access hole which will support our 3 remaining cameras.

Camera cables from the outside on the roof.

Cameras are mounted to the roof rack. I had to fabricate a mount to extend the camera beyond the edge of the van since the roof rack is set back 4 inches from the edge.  

Camera from the other side of the mount.

Day 288:  There, its done. What do you think?  The camera cables seem a little messy now, but this is just testing the connections.  I had to cut and re-solder all the cables to fit through the watertight roof box.

After a bit of clean up ...  All the cables run through this little section of PVC pipe that is wrapped with carbon fiber vinyl tape.  The DVR unit is powered by the house batteries so I added a illuminated rocker switch to power it on and off.

Found a spot on the dash to mount the monitor.  Ran the monitor cable under the dash cover and up the side support.  Next project is to find the plug with the turn signal indicators and hook it up so the cameras automatically switch when the turn signal is selected. 

Testing the countertop cutout on the toilet cabinet.  Several rounds of trim and fitting later it went  in without a fight.

Putting the finish on the countertop as well as a couple other projects made from left over butcher block.

Day 291: installed the floating crown molding. There is enough space between the crown molding and the ceiling to put in some multi-color LED accent lighting

Accent lighting in action! Plus the towel rack(s) installed.

Added a grab handle to help with getting in/out of the van.  Ford parts wanted $75 for the little plastic handle, plus $140 for the trim cover, plus $120 for the mounting plate.  We bought this handle for $12 from Amazon and added a piece of scrap maple.  The most expensive thing was the stainless fasteners.

 Day 292:  Finished countertop installed over the toilet cabinet.  Now we are really ready to go!

Finally we are read to begin our first trip with a mostly completely finished almost build.