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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Warren, thanks for the construction ideas. I have an old six-foot chest 
freezer in the basement, the lid of which would make a good people door. As 
for interior finish, I did the ceiling and north wall of my "East Wing" 
summer kitchen/plant starting greenhouse/herb drying room with something 
that in my part of the Ozarks is called dairy board because it's used in 
milking parlors where it gets hosed down daily; it's white heavy plastic 
stuff, perhaps an eighth of an inch thick, comes in four by eight sheets, 
has a sort of pebble surface.

Chris is a city girl also and if any valves are going to be turned on and 
off, 'tis me that's gonna do the turning.

> With that in mind I'd probably build the
> box myself. 2x4 studs and 2-3" of rigid insulation. Same with the floor and
> ceiling. Plywood on the floor with sheet vinyl over it and turned up the
> wall 3-4 inches. Install FRP plastic sheeting over the walls and ceiling,
> lapping the FRP over the top of the vinyl flooring. Liquid nails will hold
> it to most anything, including rigid insulation.
>
> This sounds stupid but you could get a refrigerator door with the sub-doors
> from an appliance repair boneyard, and hang it for your walk-in door, Use
> the existing small doors for your butter, etc.. Then I'd call a
> refrigeration company to install a small unit for me- shouldn't be too bad
> as you aren't talking about a walk-in freezer- just a fridge.
>
> This is what I would have to do if my wife and I wanted a walk-in, because
> she wouldn't be very into opening and closing a hotwater valve for cooling.
> She's a city kind of girl and hopefully I'm all that melts her butter.