Minutia and not so minutia

 Sometimes a job takes a while because you need just the right little detail. Which will likely go entirely unnoticed by the majority but I will know, and being that I am my own worst critic.....I must try to please the critic. My desire is that I want to add a little of family into the bus. What I mean by that is I have purposely included a few details along the way to give a nod to family members that have contributed to not only Fillmore but to us as well. One of which is the wood counter top and trim on the cabinets in the back of the bus... in the master bedroom if you will. The cabinet tops are made from Fir flooring that was stored in a shed on the Keeler family homestead, the trim on the drawers is made from Mvuli, wood from Africa that Michelle's mom and Dad brought back when they were there back in the 60's. My issue is that they are different colours of wood, and , I would like to make them match or get close if possible. Being that I have dropped a couple of cup holders in them I have used the 'pucks' as test pieces.
 I thought I had a winner, but when I stain the entire counter top it looked like a tribute to the purple rain album of the  artist formerly known as 'Prince' 

 So after spending a lot of Sunday morning sanding all the stain off....thank god I love listening to CBC radio and zone out to classical music, I tried different combinations. And I'm not happy with any of them....yet.

 So it was time to regroup and move onto another project on the list. The bathroom door. More of a challenge than what it seems. Due to the nature of the bus...where things aren't exactly square, plumb or true, the door is a little rhomboidal.

 So the sides aren't parallel....which I can deal with.....really....honestly...I can do this....
Oh and the edges are angled, but outside of that this is easy peasy.....

In the end. the first draft looks promising. I now just have to laminate a second layer, reinforce with birch trim, make a header.....and then install the hardware. I'm pretty much done......ha!