Appliance storage

old guy wrote:
in my opinion anything heavy needs to be in the floor level compartments. you go around one corner too fast and they will be all over the floor and possibly broken

I agree. Definitely makes sense, also makes it easier to get those heavy things out if they aren't above your head. One just has to watch the first 10 minutes of the movie RV to see what a mess and possible harm things falling out of the upper cabinets can do. (Yes I know it was a movie :) , but still a good reminder I think.)

in my opinion anything heavy needs to be in the floor level compartments. you go around one corner too fast and they will be all over the floor and possibly broken

We store Coffee Maker, Toaster, Waffle Iron in an overhead cabinet on that spongy rubber shelf liner material. They haven't come down. I don't remember anything actually pushing a cabinet open. Haven't tried watermelon, Drew, but have carried cantaloupe in a simple plastic basket riding on a dinette seat. Sometimes a drawer opens, never a cabinet. That said, we've had fallout from cabinets when we opened one on arrival at a site or back home.

It all depends on the appliances that you want to store.

I store my coffee maker,crockpot,toaster and french press and a few other things in just one overhead cabinet and have not had one problem with them moving or falling out. I do use that non skid shelf liner in the floor of the cabinet,the doors all have gas struts on them.


The Ice Maker is to large to put in any cabinet so it is stored in the overhead bunk area against one wall,it too has never moved.

What appliances are you talking about? How heavy and unstable are they

I keep a hand mixer on the bottom shelf of my pantry cabinet, and a stovetop coffee percolator in a different cabinet, and that's about all for appliances that are not built in. Maybe at some point I might add a crock pot (and perhaps an inverter to power it while on the road), and it would probably end up living in some lower cabinet too.

In general, things seem to be reasonably secure in cabinets on the road, though a whole lot depends on how smooth and level the road is. The hardest for me seem to be dips when entering and exiting driveways and the like that cause substantial side to side leaning--not very harsh for the passengers compared to big bumps, but very capable of rearranging the contents of cabinets and occasionally spilling something onto the floor. The propensity for the latter depends to a reasonable degree on how firmly the cabinet doors latch shut.

I have had a couple of plates (nice heavy plastic ones) break from falling to the floor. I also had a watermelon get loose once; I learned from that to keep a watermelon in something other than the pantry cabinet, as it will get quite a head of steam up when it rolls around. Inside the dinette storage under the seat works nicely for watermelon (for me).