Darkroom

For the last month I’ve been working on my darkroom.  It has been a long process, but a satisfying one.  This phase of the project was to build a sink for the wet area.

As noted in my previous post, phase one of the project completed the dry area which hosts my PC, scanner, printer and a work area for framing prints.  Phase three, and it is hoped to be the last phase, will connect the sink to the plumbing.

The sink, located on the left, is 2 feet deep by 4 feet wide. The bowl of the sink is 6 inches deep.  It is made of PVC on a wood frame. The PVC sheets (three 2’x4′) were purchased on eBay from a store in Missouri as I was unable to find any locally.   The wood was sourced from my reserves (that is, I had a lot of extra wood that I wanted to get rid of).  I only had to buy one 2’x4′ sheet of plywood for the sink base.

The original idea for building the sink was described in an article, How to make a custom darkroom sink out of PVC.  It provided the basic instructions and importantly they key parts.  With that information, and the inventory of wood I had available, I created my own plan (pdf).