I am trying to organize my T-1950 to live in as I get ready to full time travel.
I want to organize it differently to live in than I did to vacation and I have a couple of questions.
First off, I would like to install a shelf in the cabinets over the bed. I would ideally like to add one moveable shelf per door opening. However, even though I have a stud finder I am not sure I am reading it correctly and I can't make heads or tails of the stud file I downloaded from here. Just need to know how far a part the studs are on the back wall so I know if I could do two separate shelves or if I have to do one long shelf all the way across the back of the cabinets
PDF Stud File below.
Second storage solution question is about the small quite useless shelf in the kitchen oveheadr cabinet. I say useless becasue it is so small and its so far back I have to use a small step ladder to reach it!
I was looking at it and wondered if it could be removed? The side of it is screwed in and could be a support for I don't know what it could be?
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Joan & Miss Emme Lu Who
Full Timing in T-1950 2005 Anniversary Model
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Well I figured out that that stud locations files make sense AFTER they are downloaded!
I have three studs to work with, the two outside wall studs and one about 13-14 inches from the outside wall stud on the left hand side (if yoiu are facing the bed)
Sooo that one solved
However, I still am wondering about taking down the small shelf inside the kitchen overhead cabinet?
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Joan & Miss Emme Lu Who
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Joan..I use white wire shelves in the cabinets over my bed..they have legs,..some are folding legs which makes it easier to wiggle them into the openings. They come in many sizes and are found in any of the big stores..got mine at yard sales. As for the small shelf, I am afraid removing it will not be easy..opt instead to enlarge it somehow or live with it. These things in Sunlines are all screwed in from the outside-in..usually can't get to those screws w/o damaging your walls. JANALEE
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I was looking at wire shelves too. I use some in my kitchen overhead cabinet but the legs do not fold. I also love those wire drawers but they require mounting and the studs location won't work.
I will probably use those as I wanted to have adjustable shelves.
I am using the space for clothes only. Storage under the bed for extra blankets, towels etc Things I won't access as much as clothing.
Using both clothes cabinets for hanging clothes. You know us girls want to have all our clothes! Especially full timing as I will be bringing a few church/social dressier clothes, a few cooler weather items along with mostly summer clothes as I intend to mostly follow the sun
Thanks Janalee
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Originally Posted by Janalee
Joan..I use white wire shelves in the cabinets over my bed..they have legs,..some are folding legs which makes it easier to wiggle them into the openings. They come in many sizes and are found in any of the big stores..got mine at yard sales.
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Joan & Miss Emme Lu Who
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I made shelves to go in the cabinet over our bed. Don't know if this helps in your case, but may spur some thoughts. I actually did a thread on this a few years ago, but I can't find it. Here are some pics from it. If this looks like it might work, I have more pic of the process.
Our over bed cabinets started like this. 2 doors and one mega hole inside. Everything was jumbled up and it always seemed you wanted what was on the bottom...
Others (Kitty gave me the idea) to make the center panel a door, I did and added the shelf too. So much better to get in and out and better organization. Some pics of the outcome
I also did a shelf in the bath area, same thing of large wasted space.
Hope this helps spur and idea or two.
John
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On my current TH - my kitchen drawers are very deep (maybe 8 inches) I had DH cur 4 pieces of 1 x 1 and glued them in the corners of the drawer - then cut a thin piece of plywood to place in the drawer, he put one center finger hole in it so I can lift it out wasly, it doubled the drawer space - now I have silverware that I can find and all my soup laddles, spatulas, etc - are seperate between two seperate sections.....
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Well I think this answers my question about the studs in the bedroom overheads!
In the pdf of the stud location of a T-1950 it shows only 3 studs. One on each end and one about 13 1/4 inches from the door side. So I thought I had to use only those but when looking at the little shelf in the kitchen over head I saw they did the same thing you did here John in your bedroom. You built the framing of the shelf and attached to the back of the camper to some studs but not all and to the middle divider.
Apparently the frame is strong enough to hold the shelf and contents without having to anchor it in all studs? Is this correct? See attachment
I will be using the shelf for clothing like you
My thought when working on this was, why not just have one big door? Same thing with the kitchen. I could have 5 more inches of open space??
BTW excellent job on the shelving!!
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Originally Posted by JohnB
Joan,
I made shelves to go in the cabinet over our bed. Don't know if this helps in your case, but may spur some thoughts. I actually did a thread on this a few years ago, but I can't find it. Here are some pics from it. If this looks like it might work, I have more pic of the process.
Our over bed cabinets started like this. 2 doors and one mega hole inside. Everything was jumbled up and it always seemed you wanted what was on the bottom...
Others (Kitty gave me the idea) to make the center panel a door, I did and added the shelf too. So much better to get in and out and better organization. Some pics of the outcome
I also did a shelf in the bath area, same thing of large wasted space.
Hope this helps spur and idea or two.
John
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Joan & Miss Emme Lu Who
Full Timing in T-1950 2005 Anniversary Model
1997 6.5L Chevy Turbo Diesel Truck "Pure Michigan" Facebook:Apackof2 for the Rd
Very cool idea! My silverware is not so deep but deep enough for silverware
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Originally Posted by Poppy & Nana
Joan,
On my current TH - my kitchen drawers are very deep (maybe 8 inches) I had DH cur 4 pieces of 1 x 1 and glued them in the corners of the drawer - then cut a thin piece of plywood to place in the drawer, he put one center finger hole in it so I can lift it out wasly, it doubled the drawer space - now I have silverware that I can find and all my soup laddles, spatulas, etc - are seperate between two seperate sections.....
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Full Timing in T-1950 2005 Anniversary Model
1997 6.5L Chevy Turbo Diesel Truck "Pure Michigan" Facebook:Apackof2 for the Rd
YES, there is a stud in that location. I added the 3/4" x 1" tall strip down the entire width of the camper. I knew there was good solid attaching on the ends as there was good framing there. This 1" high strip takes the weight on the wall side. Then the center stiles have another 3/4" x 3/4" strip and the shelf lays on top, screwed to it.
The veneer board shelves, 1/4" thick are screwed to both strips. I order to get them in there... that was a challenge, I cut them in 3 sections. The used a piece of 3/4" x 2" wide strip to join them so they do not sag at that joint. You can see strip in the pic.
This setup can hold 50# of clothes and stuff no problem. It will do 100# too but I have enough tongue weight on the camper now. My bed room is up front.
Being able to organize better is such an improvement.
Good luck with yours
John
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"I added the 3/4" x 1" tall strip down the entire width of the camper. I knew there was good solid attaching on the ends as there was good framing there"
Ok then it should work for me to do it this way as there is studs at the end and then a stud 13 1/4 " I can can attach to.
This wonderful, thanks!!
I was really getting frustrated with coming up with something workable to add the much needed shelf
You are so right, being able to organize better is a HUGE improvement!!
I will post pics when done!
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Originally Posted by JohnB
Joan,
To your question,
YES, there is a stud in that location. I added the 3/4" x 1" tall strip down the entire width of the camper. I knew there was good solid attaching on the ends as there was good framing there. This 1" high strip takes the weight on the wall side. Then the center stiles have another 3/4" x 3/4" strip and the shelf lays on top, screwed to it.
The veneer board shelves, 1/4" thick are screwed to both strips. I order to get them in there... that was a challenge, I cut them in 3 sections. The used a piece of 3/4" x 2" wide strip to join them so they do not sag at that joint. You can see strip in the pic.
This setup can hold 50# of clothes and stuff no problem. It will do 100# too but I have enough tongue weight on the camper now. My bed room is up front.
Being able to organize better is such an improvement.
Good luck with yours
John
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Joan & Miss Emme Lu Who
Full Timing in T-1950 2005 Anniversary Model
1997 6.5L Chevy Turbo Diesel Truck "Pure Michigan" Facebook:Apackof2 for the Rd
We put wire shelving in our wardrobe closets last summer. The box store (Lowes) cut the shelving to the exact width of the closet, we put plastic caps on the cut ends, and then Matthew used c-clips and 8x1/2 screws to attach the shelving to studs in the closet walls. In one closet, however, he was not able to get the screws in studs and didn't want to have them penetrate all the way through the closet walls. We tried anchoring the c-clips with dual-sided tape but that only worked for a little while. We're going to try 3M Dual-Lock to anchor the c-clips in that closet and see what happens. You can't really see if from the pixs but we put the wire shelving in upside-down so that the edge is a lip to prevent clothes from falling out.
When you do your shelving, be sure to post pixs so we can see what you did.
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I was in Lowes yesterday talking with an employee about wire shelving and he never mentioned they would cut it for me
What you did is exactly what I would do, have a lip. The two hanging closets I have decided I need for hanging clothes and the back overhead cabinets for the rest. Extras and stuff I do not use as much will go under the bed.
I am blessed to have found an excellent handyman (my niece introduced us) and I spoke with him today about building shelving like John's. He will also re-do a shelve in the overhead by the couch as we discovered the current shelf was really jerri-rigged with PVC pipe and hot glue
After he left, then I thought about a project I wanted to do last year, making a drawer on tracks for most accessed under the bed stuff. A hole would need to be cut to fit the drawer but I have enough room to pull a drawer out. (See attachment )THAT would be so much easier than having to pull up the bed every time. For in the T-1950 the bed is tight and I have to make sure the blinds on the escape window are up or else they get crunched. And I had bedroom curtains made and will take down the cornices so the curtains will need to be pushed aside too. :-O
I will definitely post pictures
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Originally Posted by Wannabes
Joan,
We put wire shelving in our wardrobe closets last summer. The box store (Lowes) cut the shelving to the exact width of the closet, we put plastic caps on the cut ends, and then Matthew used c-clips and 8x1/2 screws to attach the shelving to studs in the closet walls. In one closet, however, he was not able to get the screws in studs and didn't want to have them penetrate all the way through the closet walls. We tried anchoring the c-clips with dual-sided tape but that only worked for a little while. We're going to try 3M Dual-Lock to anchor the c-clips in that closet and see what happens. You can't really see if from the pixs but we put the wire shelving in upside-down so that the edge is a lip to prevent clothes from falling out.
When you do your shelving, be sure to post pixs so we can see what you did.
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Joan & Miss Emme Lu Who
Full Timing in T-1950 2005 Anniversary Model
1997 6.5L Chevy Turbo Diesel Truck "Pure Michigan" Facebook:Apackof2 for the Rd
Joan - I did a drawer at the end of the bed on our 2499 - pics are posted on here somewhere....if you can't find them I might be able to look and see what I can find on Wednesday.
I work Bingo at the fire hall tonight and work tomorrow night = so it would be Wednesday at the earliest....we leave on vaca on Friday - so I'm one very busy lasy this week.....
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Central Adirondacks of New York
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Oh thank you! No problem I will nose around and see what I can find
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Joan - I did a drawer at the end of the bed on our 2499 - pics are posted on here somewhere....if you can't find them I might be able to look and see what I can find on Wednesday.
I work Bingo at the fire hall tonight and work tomorrow night = so it would be Wednesday at the earliest....we leave on vaca on Friday - so I'm one very busy lasy this week.....
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I had to watch the width - it needed to fit in between the two drawers on either side of the bed
Kathy
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Nice! where did you get the drawer front? The drawer is on slides I assume?
I had my local woodworking shop make the drawer front and yet it was on slides....
Sorry for the late post - just back from vacation and still trying to catch up on "things"!
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Central Adirondacks of New York
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We loved our 2007 T-2499
2010 Ford F-350 4x4 Lariat Super Crew Dually Diesel