Sunday, June 15, 2014

RV Storage: Folded Clothes

One thing we noticed when we first went to look at Tilly was that she has a lot of closet space. There's a narrow closet on either side of the bed, and a very large closet in the hallway that separates the living room from the bedroom. This was one of the many things that set Tilly apart from other RVs we looked at during our search. My dresses, Josh's button-downs, and all of our jackets quickly found homes in Tilly's ample closet space once we started moving them in. Folded clothes, though, were a different story.
What we gained in closet space we lost in drawer space. There were no nooks or crannies in which to keep our socks, pajamas, t-shirts, or underwear. Since the closet space was so plentiful and we had 5 lifetimes' worth of hangers (for some reason?), I briefly considered hanging our foldables in the extra closet space... like a barbarian. But that wasn't going to work, either.
Josh and I took a trip to the Container Store hoping to find a reasonable solution to our problem. After exploring our options, we decided on a custom drawer set by ELFA.
Before we stuffed all our clothes in. Is this picture really calming to anyone else, or is that just me?


We had to sacrifice about half of our large closet to make this work, but we were willing to do that. The frame and the drawers are sold separately, so you can decide what depth of drawer suits your needs best. We chose varying drawer depths, based on what type of clothing we would be keeping in each drawer. For example, Josh has a lot of bulky jeans, so we chose a deep pants drawer for him. Most of my pants are pajamas or yoga pants that easily roll up, so we chose a shallow pants drawer for me.
Colorful pants fo' lyfe.

I also decided to keep some non-clothing cosmetic items in on of my drawers, since I have so much beauty stuff and I didn't want to completely take over the bathroom.
We're both very happy with our setup and would recommend it to anyone else who is having similar storage issues. It's the only thing we found that was the perfect size and shape for our needs. The set was $158 ($58 for the frame and $100 for the drawers), but we used a 10% off coupon and got it for about $140.

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