Remember the back wall curves in, so you have to do a little math and figure how much shorter it will be from doing the measurements from the bottom. I made all my measurements and cut the shelves to reach all the way to the back. Because of the center post I had to make it in two sections - a left and right side. I decided to divide it into three sections - the top half being open all the way across the span of the closet, and the bottom half divided into two separate sections.įirst thing I did was take measurements and make a shelf to make two shelves in the top section, rather than the one large shelf. I started on the upper portion of the closet first. Upper closet original layout Upper Closet Section We would stuff towels and things up there, but you would always have room on the top, or would need the thing on the bottom in the back behind everything. The upper opening was in about the same shape. Original closet with doors Original closet layout (with the doors removed)

In this configuration we ended up hanging almost everything to fit it in. We needed more storage for hiking, biking, and everyday clothes. (I removed the closet doors.) I’m not sure who is camping with that many hanging clothes, but that doesn’t really suit our clothing needs. Here are the images of the closet as it comes originally. This is the solution that I took and that you can replicate by following these instructions. As they say, there are “100 ways to skin a cat,” and after looking around on forums and Google, I found there are some very creative solutions that people have come up with. Here is how I installed shelves in the hanging closet of our Airstream. This post explains how we went from this closet layout: Original closet layout (with the doors removed) To this closet layout: Finished closet layout So, being a handy kind of guy, I decided to build some shelving that would utilize as much of the space as possible. I looked around and found some potentially good solutions out there like store-bought organizers and separate storage boxes that we could put things in, but it left a ton of unusable space around them. We were packing more folding items like shirts, pants and shorts that don’t require a hanging rod. This was fine for our short trips and weekends away, but as we started preparing for a longer three-month trip we found we didn’t have much of a need for a hanging rod. While our new 2018 Tommy Bahama 27FB Airstream is loaded with storage, the closet area was set up from the factory to have double doors that lead into a single closet with a clothes rod that stretched the space. Thank you for supporting the work that goes into developing RV Hive! If you choose to purchase an item linked from this post, RV Hive may receive a small commission, at no cost to you.

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