Simple is best

A few days ago I had a brain storm. If you know me then you know that it was a tempest in a tea cup. A very small tea cup. Anyway, I was staring blankly at the galley area, not thinking of much at all, no surprise, when all of a sudden I got hit with an idea. The cooler I had purchased at wally world looked to be approximately the same size as the built in ice box next to the sink.

I haven't used the ice chest because of the inefficient design. It wasn't all that well insulated and required a lot of ice to stay cool for a short while. Hmmm, I wondered. Would that plastic cooler fit inside the ice chest? I tried it and guess what.....it fit. Tightly. The only problem with it was it raised the height of the teak work area boards 7/8 of an inch. So I got out my trusty shot filled nylon mallet and beat on the cooler, jamming it in even tighter. After measuring again I was happy to note that it was still 7/8 of an inch higher.

Shortly after moving into Avalon I had taken the head and closet doors off and broken them down to their constituent parts. My neighbor has plenty of wood working tools, like a table saw and a joiner/planer, so I got busy chopping up some of my spare teak and made a new frame for the work station boards. I love working with wood. I love the smell and feel of it. I was in seventh heaven.

Now I have more room in my galley, a working ice box, and stowage for my galley goodies. Cool. Ya gotta love a simple solution to what I thought was a thorny problem. Next is building a series of open cabinets along each side of the salon. I'll keep ya posted.