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26.5RB Kitchen question
Yahoo Message Number: 48740
I am one of those short persons who can't reach most of the contents of the cubboards without a stool.  So where do you put the food, the dishes, cups and glasses, and the pots & pans, bowls and appliences? I have moved things around several times and need some ideas.  Still loving our new baby daze.  Thanks...Susieann
Re: 26.5RB Kitchen question
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Yahoo Message Number: 48741
Rubbermaid (or one of its competitors) makes a clear plastic box that is just a little narrower than the door under the RK sink, about a foot deep, and it's length is about 4 inches less than the depth of the under sink cabinet.  In our rig, it slides in and out of the bottom of that cabinet, and hold a LOT of food.  Pots and pans go under the sink on the upper shelf.  Dishes, tumblers, and cups go in the cabinet above the range and, yes, sometimes they are hard to reach.
 Lightweight items -- cereal, chips, etc, as well as paper plates, bowls and the like go in the cabinet above the dinnette.  Plastic wrap, foil, plastic bags, and so forth are stored in the shelf above the rear window.
 I've tought about getting a combination step-stool/tool-box but haven't done so yet.

Hope this helps  /noel/
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] 26.5RB Kitchen question-Long
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Yahoo Message Number: 48755
On Wednesday, January 5, 2005, at 12:40  PM, susieann07303 wrote:
 
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I am one of those short persons who can't reach most of the contents of the cubboards without a stool.  So where do you put the food, the dishes, cups and glasses, and the pots & pans, bowls and appliences? I have moved things around several times and need some ideas.  Still loving our new baby daze.  Thanks...Susieann
Hi again Susieann with one of LD's most flexible models!  You'll get a wealth of ideas from some pretty smart people with RB's (Sarah and Jonna included).  For starters, I'm a short people too and couldn't travel without an 11 x 14 Rubbermaid single step stool that tucks nicely under the dinette.
 First off, hi yourself to your local gadget store and buy some cupboard "step stools" -- plastic coated wire shelf doublers that come in a variety of lengths.  Experiment with turning them this way and that inside your cabinets.  I've used them in just about all storage areas, even the medicine cabinet and exterior cubbies.
 Basically, the short cabinet that hangs over the forward seat in the RB dinette is where I store dinnerware (dinner and salad plates, large and small bowls), nested plastic tumblers and juice cups.  (A 16" add-a-shelf fits perfectly there). The longer cabinet over the dinette window is a good place for storing mixing bowls, serving pieces, French press and carafe, plastic storage containers, cookbooks, mugs -- mostly light-er stuff.

The cabinet above the stove is for food.  It's organized with a rotating lazy susan tucked into the back corner, another 16" wire shelf sets on top of the forward built-in shelf, giving you two forward shelves. All the stuff stored at that level will need one of those extendable bars used to hold refer food in place -- available at Camping World.  Canisters with staples line up on the back built-in shelf; taller things fit nicely into the left side recessed section of the cabinet.  I stow little things that can flail about (S&P shakers, popcorn, dried soup mixes) in small plastic baskets.

Below the sink:  The door pantry holds all kinds of stuff, but a cautionary tale here:  I had to borrow Sarah's beloved Pete to fix my bottom shelf that had collapsed under the weight of too much heavy stuff (spaghetti sauce!).  It's working just dandy now, thank you again Pete, and I've since learned to spread that heavy stuff around!

The bottom part of the sink cabinet is where I store pots, pans and wine.  The upper part is my "junque drawer" where stuff is stored in plastic baskets and a nifty tip from Celia Gumm:  a plastic, open-ended magazine rack that holds a neat stack of aluminum foil, plastic wrap and ziplocks.  I also store soaps, paper towels, GooGone there, and the walls are lined with Grip-Its and Command Hooks that hold small tools, spare keys, butane lighter, etc.
 The microwave stores paper plates, napkins and bread stuff.  The oven (cover your eyes Andy!), stores flat stuff -- cooling racks, pizza pan, cake pans, etc.  If you're not fulltiming, you'll probably be able to find another spot for this sort of thing -- it's really not a good idea to use the oven for storage.
 If you want to contact me off list, I can pass on the name and edress of a guy who makes perfectly-fitted drawer inserts for the two RB too-deep, wasted-space kitchen drawers.  These inserts are a life saver and literally double your available gadget space.
 Let your imagination run wild!  Experiment.  It's so much fun!  Hope to see you at a LaDeze or other LD event where you can see how others have personalized their coaches.
 Lorna, surrounded by darting and dashing kites in Half Moon Bay wind.
Sigh!
2003 RB
Re: 26.5RB Kitchen question
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Yahoo Message Number: 48770
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I am one of those short persons who can't reach most of the
Hi again SA. I too am short and find that a plastic step stool as sold in drug stores, groceries, Target, in fact almost everywhere, about $8+- 8inches high, indispensable. I can reach overhead cabinets, overcab and even the vent handles with ease.  Also very good to sit on while searching the lower cabinets. Park yr slippers under it at night and you'll know just where to find them.  :-)  SC
Re: 26.5RB Kitchen question
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Yahoo Message Number: 48781
From another shorter person, we use a "Skinny Stool".  It folds to about 1 ½ " thick, but we leave it set up most of the time.  It fits beautifully at the end of the street side twin bed in our 30' LD, in front of the drawers and heating duct.  Our "inside" tool box slides nicely underneath.  Neither interferes with the heat duct.  It's useful for extra seating and the smaller of our two dogs uses it to get up on the bed. :^)  It comes in handy outside the LD, too.   I almost bought one of the folding Turtle Stools, but that is bulkier and doesn't offer the flexibility of the Skinny Stool.  You can probably find one in your local homewares store, but this is what it looks like:

http://www.improvementscatalog.com/product.asp?product=111344zz&dept% 5Fid=12430

or

http://tinyurl.com/5eapr

Sharon N.
 
Re: [Life With A Lazy Daze RV] Re: 26.5RB Kitchen question
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Yahoo Message Number: 48860
I like Noel's idea of a step stool that's also a tool box. I hate wresting my little tool box out of the cabinet where I have it stashed.
I'll just bet that I find one in Quartzsite when I get there later this month!! Yee-hah!! I could keep it under the dinette like Lorna does.

For now, I use one of those $10 foldable step stools that you see everywhere, in all sorts of colors. For sure, they're in Camping World, but I've seen them in hardware stores, etc. I keep it folded up flat behind the passenger seat in our RB.

Sarah Back in Albuquerque for awhile