Three recent simple projects
Here are a few recent (within the past several months) small projects I've done on my '98 Coachmen class C.
First up: the Ford chassis, somewhat inexplicably, has no glove box. I guess there just isn't room in the passenger side of the dashboard to fit one in, what with the airbag and heater vents...or perhaps the extra $20 it would cost to build one in is just too much money. Regardless, it does leave no great place to put things like the registration and insurance cards.
I mounted a hook for a little expandable portfolio folder on the back of the dinette bench just behind the front passenger seat to hold these and other important bits of paperwork:
Second: I put in a little safe. The best location I found for it was underneath the queen bed in the back. Most of the room under the bed is taken up by an external storage compartment, the fresh water tank, and the water pump, but there was a big enough chunk at one corner to fit the safe in easily.
I unfortunately didn't quite get the mounting holes for the safe exactly square with each other, so it's not perfectly flush with the paneling; and the trim isn't quite perfect around it. From any normal vantage point, it looks okay. (This is a cheap Harbor Freight safe. I'm more interested in keeping the petty cash and s'mores chocolate safe from kids than in keeping the hope diamond safe from international jewel thieves.)
Third: I put some peel and stick vinyl whiteboard stuff on the panels of my fridge doors. This stuff is like heavy-duty shelf paper or contact paper—thin, comes in a roll. The borders are done with some patterned duck tape, mainly because the whiteboard roll was about a quarter of an inch narrower than the opening in the fridge door frame. It's a handy place to put itineraries, shopping lists, and similar notes.
Maybe these will give you some ideas.
First up: the Ford chassis, somewhat inexplicably, has no glove box. I guess there just isn't room in the passenger side of the dashboard to fit one in, what with the airbag and heater vents...or perhaps the extra $20 it would cost to build one in is just too much money. Regardless, it does leave no great place to put things like the registration and insurance cards.
I mounted a hook for a little expandable portfolio folder on the back of the dinette bench just behind the front passenger seat to hold these and other important bits of paperwork:
Second: I put in a little safe. The best location I found for it was underneath the queen bed in the back. Most of the room under the bed is taken up by an external storage compartment, the fresh water tank, and the water pump, but there was a big enough chunk at one corner to fit the safe in easily.
I unfortunately didn't quite get the mounting holes for the safe exactly square with each other, so it's not perfectly flush with the paneling; and the trim isn't quite perfect around it. From any normal vantage point, it looks okay. (This is a cheap Harbor Freight safe. I'm more interested in keeping the petty cash and s'mores chocolate safe from kids than in keeping the hope diamond safe from international jewel thieves.)
Third: I put some peel and stick vinyl whiteboard stuff on the panels of my fridge doors. This stuff is like heavy-duty shelf paper or contact paper—thin, comes in a roll. The borders are done with some patterned duck tape, mainly because the whiteboard roll was about a quarter of an inch narrower than the opening in the fridge door frame. It's a handy place to put itineraries, shopping lists, and similar notes.
Maybe these will give you some ideas.
