Simple Mods that made the DW Happy!!

[SilverRhino]

My DW is not hard to please. While on our trip to Colorado over the last 10 days, I made her life easier in the kitchen.

Towel hangin space is always hard to find in RV's. The base cabinet in out BC had an ideal location just as you come in the door. The cabinet wall is sandwhich construction so ther is really nothing to attach to that will last. What I did was make a couple of backing plates and used T-Nuts to fasten the bar to the end of the cabinet. This seemed like a good plan until I found that the cabinet had a false back that needed to be removed.....so I removed it. Only fastened in with about 8 to 10 small staples.

The other addition was in the same cabinet. I installed a pull out trash bin, a smaller version of the one I installed when I re-built our kitchen cabinets a couple of years ago in our house. Use Moly Bolts to fasten to the false floor of the cabinet and it worked great. I am going to build a divider in the space next to the trash bin to store cutting boards on the bottom and a cubby for trash bags above that.

 

[jayc]

Randy, very nice.

 

[lwmcguir]

Looks very good.

 

[JohnDar]

Nice work, Randy. We didn't have a large open surface to do that, but we found some over-the-door towel bars and use them in our kitchen (there's a second one in front of the sinks). Under the overhang is a swinging towel hook.

 

[dnight73]

These look great Randy! Makes me wish we had room in our Road Warrior to install a similar trash can. Maybe I can figure something out for under the sink. "Where to put a trash can" is one of those things that I just keep coming back to. Thanks for the idea!

 

[hoefler]

The boss had been after me to build her an island cabinet for our unit. Well I got her one built and installed it a couple of weeks ago. The cabinet is 60" wide, 16" deep, and 36" tall. Counter top is 62" x 34". Has 6 drawers 6" deep, and 2 that are 11" deep. Bought 2 tall chairs for it and removed the dinette set. She loves it, so much counter space, she doesn't quite know what to do. On our first outing with it 2 weeks ago, wife made lasagna, cucumber salad, and a peach pie for 6 people. She was in heaven with all that space to work on. She also found a trash bag holder that uses plastic grocery sacks, and a place to store them that I installed in the cabinet under the sink.

 

[JohnDar]

The boss had been after me to build her an island cabinet for our unit. Well I got her one built and installed it a couple of weeks ago. The cabinet is 60" wide, 16" deep, and 36" tall. Counter top is 62" x 34". Has 6 drawers 6" deep, and 2 that are 11" deep. Bought 2 tall chairs for it and removed the dinette set. She loves it, so much counter space, she doesn't quite know what to do. On our first outing with it 2 weeks ago, wife made lasagna, cucumber salad, and a peach pie for 6 people. She was in heaven with all that space to work on. She also found a trash bag holder that uses plastic grocery sacks, and a place to store them that I installed in the cabinet under the sink.

No photos?? How are we to believe this wondrous claim??? We need to see six people standing near it with tomato sauce and peach pie crumbs on their shirts.

 

[hoefler]

I have to see if I can get the camera to work and post some pics. Not to savvy with this computer stuff.

 

[babycampers]

What a good husband you are! Very nice work, and great ideas. Don't lose the enthusiasm for improving the place!

 

[hoefler]

Well see if I can get some pictures of our island I built.

 

[JohnDar]

Veery nice work!

 

[hoefler]

Thanks. The things we must do to keep the wife happy!

 

[2psnapod2]

My DW is not hard to please. While on our trip to Colorado over the last 10 days, I made her life easier in the kitchen.

The other addition was in the same cabinet. I installed a pull out trash bin, a smaller version of the one I installed when I re-built our kitchen cabinets a couple of years ago in our house. Use Moly Bolts to fasten to the false floor of the cabinet and it worked great. I am going to build a divider in the space next to the trash bin to store cutting boards on the bottom and a cubby for trash bags above that.

What are the dimensions for the garbage can you put in? And where did you get it? I have an area under the sink that I would like to do that too. Just have not found the size I need. That one looks like it might work.

 

[SilverRhino]

I picked the unit up at Lowe's. If I remember correctly it is a 20 quart Rev A Shelf unit.

Again going off memory.....It's about 9" wide X 12" deep X 14" tall......Again these are guesses. I will be getting the BC ready for a trip over the next couple of days and will get measurements. This was the smallest one that I had found available locally and Lowe's was the only place that had them.

 

[2psnapod2]

Thanks for the info. I will check Lowe's tomorrow.