2015 Coachmen Mirada settling in
Thank you all for your suggestions last Fall which led us to purchase our new Coachmen Mirada gasser! In all the excitement, we have now realized there is no storage space in the kitchen and are havin...
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What other cabinets do you have? There is usually no particular RV storage space dedicated for a particular function, nor is most of the RV divided by walls into separate rooms, so you use what storage you have for whatever needs you have.
Our "kitchen" area included two small drawers in the cabinet containing the sink, one shallow cabinet and one deep cabinet over the sink, a shallow drawer under the range and another under the fridge, and a "pantry" by the entry door with three 18" long shelves, one can deep. So my wife also claimed the two closest overhead cabinets in the living as kitchen storage too, one permanently for pots and pans, the other for bulky but relatively lightweight groceries.
This was after she chose the RV over the hundred or so others she looked at, because it had enough storage space in wardrobes for the family's clothes and bedding, and more than typical cabinet space in the combined living/dining/cooking area.
After you've finished shopping and your storage is what it is, then you start improvising how you will use it. If there is space within a short distance of the kitchen, you figure out how to best use it, and anybody else's plans for storing their stuff need to be rethought. Kitchen comes first if they want to eat.
If you have plans for outdoor cooking, or bulk food and drink items that are non-perishable, consider the outside storage. Don't necessarily need to store those 48 bottles of bottled drinking water or six cubes of carbonated beverages in the kitchen cabinets if there are outside cabinets yet to be filled. That also gets their weight below floor level, lowering center of gravity for safer handling. Same for large supplies of canned goods.
Our "kitchen" area included two small drawers in the cabinet containing the sink, one shallow cabinet and one deep cabinet over the sink, a shallow drawer under the range and another under the fridge, and a "pantry" by the entry door with three 18" long shelves, one can deep. So my wife also claimed the two closest overhead cabinets in the living as kitchen storage too, one permanently for pots and pans, the other for bulky but relatively lightweight groceries.
This was after she chose the RV over the hundred or so others she looked at, because it had enough storage space in wardrobes for the family's clothes and bedding, and more than typical cabinet space in the combined living/dining/cooking area.
After you've finished shopping and your storage is what it is, then you start improvising how you will use it. If there is space within a short distance of the kitchen, you figure out how to best use it, and anybody else's plans for storing their stuff need to be rethought. Kitchen comes first if they want to eat.
If you have plans for outdoor cooking, or bulk food and drink items that are non-perishable, consider the outside storage. Don't necessarily need to store those 48 bottles of bottled drinking water or six cubes of carbonated beverages in the kitchen cabinets if there are outside cabinets yet to be filled. That also gets their weight below floor level, lowering center of gravity for safer handling. Same for large supplies of canned goods.
