Sick of second-rate coffee in hotels and motels?

I built this simple box for your espresso machine to take one of our favourite and essential luxuries of home with us.

The box construction is dead simple – some 6mm marine ply, bolted together with aluminium angle.

It’s ridiculously simple to modify for any shape or size, and it’s really strong.

For this purpose, I lined the inside with EVA foam sheet to protect the Nespresso machine, and to position it perfectly on the base.

I oiled the timber (partly because I only finished about an hour before we headed off on a road trip) but you could obviously use paint or any other finish that takes your fancy.