Furnishings for Buster

The dinette benches are done.  I found the fabric online at The Fabric Guru which sells end-lots of fabrics.  You kind of have to sort through to find which pieces you like AND that have enough yardage left on the bolt for your project.  I got 13 yards at $6 a yard...more fabric than I needed, but the price was right and the shipping was really cheap. 

The fabric is a nice thick wool blend that looks a lot like banker/gangster (they are kinda the same these day, no?). business-suit fabric. I painted the walls behind the benches simi-gloss white.  We still haven't worked out the dimensions for the overhead cabinets

The foam for the seat/bed cushions came from Foam Factory--I bought a queen-sized slab of semi-firm foam, 5 inches thick called HD36-R foam, topped it with a one inch layer of super-soft latex foam, and wrapped the foam layers in a one-inch thick blanket of acrylic batting--It's kind of a Princess-and-the Pea bed.  I glued the two layers of foam together with spray glue from the foam factory, and lightly tacked the acrylic wrap in place with spray glue.

The benches are really comfortable to sit on, and when made into a bed,  are  60 inches wide by 74 inches long bed--just about queen-sized.  They form a supportive, but cushy bed--just like sleeping at home, which was a major criteria for our little rolling home-away-from home.  The bases of the dinette/bed benches are covered in trunk liner from the Auto Trim Store.  It covers up any rough carpentry, looks nice, and helps with the sound deadening.

The galley is done now.  The drawers and doors are installed.  The sink and the water pump are working.  The tall cabinet still needs doors.  In the photo we have a piece of canvas hanging over the front of the cabinet just so the batteries aren't visible.  Today Howard is working on shelves to go in the cupboard, and doors.

On a recent short road trip we tried out some of Buster's amenities, including make a cup of tea in the ferry line. 

Note the unfinished wall behind the galley.  We plan to put a window there, but still haven't settled on which one.  Howard still lusts after a Dometic Seitz window, like these from an Australian supplier, but they are not available in the US.  To order one from Europe or Australia and have it shipped is hideously expensive.  So we are still shopping for a window.