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Letsgoagain · 01-29-2008, 12:25 PM

Good afternoon,
The rear closet in the bedroom in our motorhome has a rack for hanging clothes and thats it. I'm thinking of adding one of those closet organizers with arrangeable shelving to give it more versatility. My wife especially likes the idea of having someplace to store the shoes instead of just throwing them on the closet floor. Of course she has a lot more shoes then I though.
Only problem I see is mounting the support hardware on the back wall. Not sure I like the idea of putting screws in it.
Wondering if anyone on here has added anything like this?
Letsgoagain

Letsgoagain · 01-29-2008, 12:25 PM

Good afternoon,
The rear closet in the bedroom in our motorhome has a rack for hanging clothes and thats it. I'm thinking of adding one of those closet organizers with arrangeable shelving to give it more versatility. My wife especially likes the idea of having someplace to store the shoes instead of just throwing them on the closet floor. Of course she has a lot more shoes then I though.
Only problem I see is mounting the support hardware on the back wall. Not sure I like the idea of putting screws in it.
Wondering if anyone on here has added anything like this?
Letsgoagain

jdrelgel · 01-29-2008, 06:22 PM

Hi- I had some left over 1/4" oak plywood from kitchen cabinet changes I made, and made a shelf that is screwed across the back into the top carpeted step in the closet and has two cleats on both sides screwed into the cabinets. to make the sheet rigid and keep items from sliding out, I added a piece of 1"x1"oak in the front. The shelf holds all of my wife's shoes, my laptop case while my shoes go below on the remaining two carpeted steps. Works out great.
Jim AKA RELGEL
06 Dip/00 Cherokee

MonacoMama · 01-29-2008, 09:13 PM

Letsgoagain...
...Good Luck on your project!

(I have a strong feeling that your wife will love it!

)

Relgel..Jim...I can't believe you have only posted 10 times!

I have read some of your other posts some place else

...and I know you have a lot more to say! Hopefully you will join in more often!

MM

SilverBlivit · 01-30-2008, 04:33 PM

I did out of necessity. Bouncing down the road, the clothes rod sank in the middle from the weight of the clothes and pulled itself out of the plastic holders at it's ends. I Installed a center support bracket from closet floor up to and under the clothes rod, front to rear of closet, leaving room for the doors to slide clear. Placed screws into the rear wall for stabilization only. The weight of the clothes rod is now transferred to the floor. Purchased a canvas hanging shoe bag for CC's side of the closet and stabilized it with plastic wire wraps. She is now very happy to have shoe storage. Then we bought inexpensive stackable, plastic pull out drawers from Wal-Mart and stacked them two high on the closet floor, such that they reached just to the bottom of the clothes. There is room for 4 on each half of the closet with room for another 6" wide pair of stackables on my side for socks. Shoe bag precludes them on her side.
Further modified the drawers by running a bungie (buy a roll of 1/4" round bungie) along the front of the drawers so they do not vibrate open during travel and hang up the sliding doors.
The closet was the beginning of the 'blivet' for which the final product was named. There is definitely 300lbs of stuff in a 50lb closet!!!
This is a cheap fix, a few pieces of scrap pine lumber, a few screws and 8 el cheapo removable plastic storage drawers.

MonacoMama · 01-30-2008, 09:23 PM

SilverBlivit...
We would love to see some photos

... Email me if you need help posting pics

MM

SilverBlivit · 01-31-2008, 07:48 AM

MM
Photos in a couple of days. Need to finish current project today.
K

MonacoMama · 01-31-2008, 09:04 PM

Hey Ken...
I will be looking for the photos...I will get them up tomorrow PM when I get home.. PS... your signature!!

MM

SilverBlivit · 02-01-2008, 11:15 AM

I took picture this am. As soon as CC gets them off the camera and to my email, I will zip them over.
Thanks for the Signature....That is really cool.
Congrats Ms Moderator!!!!!!!!
K

SilverBlivit · 02-01-2008, 11:19 AM

That is pictures(plural). My keyboard will never make it in a spelling bee! It Really screws up sentence structure also.

MonacoMama · 02-01-2008, 10:01 PM

Silverblivit will get photos up this weekend...He does have them in his photo album on the iRV2 photo board!

MM

SilverBlivit · 02-02-2008, 08:38 AM

First, kudos to Monaco Mama, without whom this photo(if it shows up in this post) would not have been possible. Thanks Mama for your patience and guidance.
On the left side of photo is a vertical 1x6 attached at the floor with a purlin rrnning aft to attach to the back wall of closet at the floor.(next pic will show purlin)

SilverBlivit · 02-02-2008, 08:50 AM

As you can see from the photo album in the previous post, which I have no idea how I loaded,

there is a cheap closet organizer...
I hope you have more luck with the project than I am having with posting pictures on this thread!

Duh!!!!!!!!

MonacoMama · 02-02-2008, 08:54 AM

Ken...
You copied the web page properties...
Right click on the photo itself ...and copy the URL Address that shows up on the gray window...
You are almost there!!!