It's been six months since I last updated. We've been slowly making progress on the mobile office. Wiring is finished, insulation and wood walls are up. The curve of the van walls was challenging, to say the least! Happy to see some progress.

Every weekend, we get a little more work done on my mobile office. This weekend all the cabinet doors and drawer faces got completed, and some even got installed. We're adding recycled aluminum (found at our local metal scrap yard) to the insets of the doors and drawers. My husband added a brushed texture to the face of the insets to add character.

We're also adding an aluminum face to the fridge!

We're still plugging away on my mobile office on the weekends we're home. My husband started the detail work on the compartment over the cab. We're mimicking some vintage Airstream detailing in this spot. Aluminum + rivets. Love it!

Can't wait to see this portion finished!

Boring, but necessary, the plumbing and wiring is being installed. I'm mainly only posting about it to have a place for the photos in case we need to look at how things were installed in the event of future repairs.

Kind of hard to tell what the photo below is depicting. Mark decided to run a channel in the subfloor to allow the plumbing lines to cross the van at the floor, rather than up the walls, over the ceiling, and then down the walls to the sink.

Final shot shows the bypass doors on the face of the couch/bed framing. The framing holds the fresh water tank, electrical box and furnace. It all has to fit in somewhere...

The mobile office is progressing - slowly. Weekends are dedicated to van projects. Today, the AM radio is being replaced with a new stereo that has a back-up camera screen. I had no idea the entire cab needed to be dismantled in order to hook up the wires.  

Work on the mobile office continues - slowly but surely. Trux is even impressed.

Made a little more progress this weekend on the mobile office van. Framing is in place for the kitchen cabinets as well as the sofa/bed frame.

Some progress photos to share - building the refrigerator cabinet. We decided to go the hard route and make the cabinet fit the space. We don't want to give up any potential storage space.

Lots more to be done, but it is exciting to see it taking shape!

Progress is taking place...slowly. Mark cut another hole through the van's siding - this time for the refrigerator vent.

But, he wasn't happy with the vent we purchased, so he made one.

Interior view looks a mess, but good things are happening. Water heater and vent are installed and insulated. Frame built and installed for the refrigerator and the custom deluxe vent is in place. 

Custom built.

What's happening? Not so much. The reality is our time to work on my future mobile office is limited to weekends. Our thought was that winter would be a good time to work on this project. And then it snowed. A lot. Last weekend consisted of dealing with the snow. Much shoveling was involved: the roof of the house, the porch, walkways, and the 100+ yard driveway. Oy. 

On a positive note, we're receiving orders of the materials we'll be using. The reality: not much storage space. The couch/bed is wrapped in a tarp on the front porch. Not a very welcoming site. Our living room is the storage area for the new merchandise. It's beginning to resemble a warehouse.

My mantra: patience, patience, patience....