Where in tarnashun are the beans in the RV Pantry Cabinet ?!Have you got an RV pantry like ours? 9 inches wide, 4 feet tall and 2 feet deep? I put something in the back of that sucker, wait an hour and with my memory I can't have no idea of what I've got in the rv pantry! And way back in there, you can't see nuthin' ! It's a real hunt to find what you want.
Being the stubborn sort of fella that I am, I decided if the engineers won't or can't build a proper RV pantry, this old bronc rider sure could! Heck even a Bull rider could figure this thing out! (you got to understand, a Bull rider ain't nuthin' but a Bronc Rider with his brains kicked out! .... But don't tell that to a Bull rider!)...........I was a Bronc rider.............quit just before I lost enough grey matter to ride into the Bull rider category! That, and I figured with my last name (Gore) it was sort of a message from God..........can't you hear it? Booming out of the clouds ........ "Brian, don't climb on a Bull!" Back to that pantry! I'm going to do another RV remodel! First thing I did was to pull out what shelves were there. Had to make room for the drawers I had planned. Second I added a pretty thick shim on one side to bring the wall of the RV pantry flush to the face frame for mounting the drawer slides.
At that point it was simply mounting the slides and putting the drawers in! 
****The Amerock Slides I used**** 'Cept it weren't quite that simple! You see the RV pantry cabinet is only 9" wide.........Little as I am, I'm wider than that! So getting in there to put the screws in the slides was a bit of an exercise in contortions! But being stubborn occasionally pays off and I got 'er done! Did I forget to mention that I built the drawers in preparation?
I built five RV pantry drawers...........so far I've only put four in. We got to thinking we may want to keep the bottom of the cabinet clear for bigger boxes and bags of stuff, so we'll wait a bit and see about that last drawer. So now where we had had 4 shelves with miserable access, we now have 4 drawers, on full extension slides, and the bottom of the RV pantry. We gained a 'shelf" as well as full access to the back of the pantry. My old bones don't contort that well any more!
While I was doing this RV upgrade it hit me that putting a simple bar across the top of our RV cabinets in the kitchen area would make that space usable for misc boxes and such. A sizable addition to our RV pantry storage capacity!
Another place we found space while planning out this RV add-on is right above our new RV pantry setup. You can see the space in the before and after pictures. The rigs manufacturer walled off a hefty chunk of real estate! 11" X 14" X 24" is my idea of a lot of wasted space.
All I had to do was remove the face panel and install a floor in the compartment. A pretty big compartment for almost no work or materials...................a shelf removed from the orginal pantry compartment formed the floor of the new electronics bay!
This area will be used to house the soon to be installed modems and controller for our Datastorm satellite system. Perfect location as it is right beside the refrigerator, and all the cables from the dish will come down through the refrigerator vent on the roof. Watch for that story! So there you have it. I can find the beans now with just a little tug on one of the drawers in our RV pantry cabinet. I don't have to go spelunking for groceries any more!
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