9/11/2023 0 Comments Airstream rivet sizes![]() ![]() You can free up an entire drawer by ditching the silverware organizer created for a home kitchen drawer, with a handled, plastic silverware caddy. This flummoxed me until I remembered how I used to transport flatware to the back yard for parties: a silverware caddy. But the darn thing took up nearly an entire drawer and left only an inch or so on the sides for other kitchen items. Initially we used the wooden flatware drawer organizer that came with our Airstream. ![]() Get your silverware out of the drawer and into an overhead cabinet. Handles make it easy to pull them out and put them back.Ģ. You can fit a lot of stuff into soft baskets. That allowed me to happily throw out all of the little squares of non-skid shelf liner I’d been using to separate pots, pans, and plates. The baskets also keep items from jiggling and scratching in the cabinets while towing, because by default they are made of soft material. Each has handles so I can grab and pull out the basket, get the items I need, and put it back. Now our cabinets contain baskets of multiple shapes and sizes for storing plates, bowls, dishtowels, dish rags, coffee and Bialetti coffee pot, tea kettle and tea stuff, and more. Then I watched a video that suggested soft-sided baskets as a way to organize cabinets, and that was my a-ha moment. But nothing allowed me to neatly stack things to the height of the cabinet and I ended up with a lot of unused space. In my initial attempts to organize, I used rigid plastic storage containers and plate/pan storage racks. You’ll be amazed at the amount of overhead cabinet space you gain. Use rope and cloth storage baskets to organize the overhead cabinets. NOTE: Product links are provided simply to give you ideas. With those guiding principles in mind, here are 10 tips for optimizing the space in your Airstream kitchen. Principle #3: Walls and overhangs = storage space, too.Īnd yes, it's possible to design them to look attractive, not cluttered. In order to fully utilize an Airstream's kitchen space, opt for containers that can morph their shape into downward sloping cabinets and narrow shelves, fit into nooks and crannies, be smashed without cracking or breaking, and act as insulation between kitchen items during towing. In other words, you can't optimize rounded, uneven height spaces by using square-edged, hard plastic containers. Hard plastic storage "systems” and containers won’t get you there because most are designed for square-cornered spaces. Principle #2: You can't fit a square peg into a round hole. Plus, you must consider how anything you put in that space will bounce around during towing. You have to think about the entire cubic space you've got in each storage space – from top to bottom, side to side, and front to back. That means you need to think differently about all the shapes and sizes of items you store in them. Not only are spaces smaller and of course there are fewer of them – they are rounded and sloping, not squared off like a cupboard or cabinet. Enough said.) So, if you’re like me, you put/stack things on a shelf or cabinet bottom and that does you just fine.īut that won’t do in an Airstream. (As evidence, take a look at the drawer or cabinet where you store your plastic containers. Loads of space that you can stash stuff in without thinking about how organized it is. In your home kitchen, you’ve likely got lots of drawers, cabinets – perhaps a pantry or an island. Principle #1: Think in terms of cubic space. Here are the three guiding principles I used to get here: In fact, because of the way I’ve optimized the space, we now have unused space in our 23 foot Globetrotter kitchen. My favorite part of every new place I live is setting up the kitchen.īut when Rich and I bought a 23-foot Airstream last year - his fourth, but my first - I was mildly terrified about how I would fit everything into what seemed to me to be a very tiny kitchen space. In fact, during our first shakedown trip in the trailer last year, I remember lamenting to Rich over and over: “this kitchen is really small!”Īfter nine months of trial and error, and over the course of a dozen trips and other extended time on the road, I have completely changed my tune. I’ve moved more than 20 times since college. ![]()
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