You just helped me overcome my fear of drawer slides! I've never seen anyone build 'around' them and that's the smartest approach ever! Thanks you! This was very cool!
As someone who spent many years going camping with a husband whose packing style can only be described as 'chaotic' this gives me feelings of such peace and contentment just watching how neatly that went together.
"Just get started-don't overthink it" It's so inspiring to hear those words coming from you Laura. Many of my best outcomes on projects came from that approach. (MOST, now that I think of it.) I'm a middle school science and engineering teacher with an after-school Maker Space where students can build whatever they want. The biggest obstacle for 100% of my students is perfection; they want so bad for everything to be perfect that it hinders their creativity. Your videos are perfect instructions on not just how to build something, but how to approach building something. Thank you Laura, as always, for the guidance and inspiration!
Laura, as someone else who's brain runs in overdrive 'designing' things and analyzing optimising systems (such as organisation), you might be a 'nerd", but it's not a bad thing at all :)
I live on a sailboat. I use a similar grid system. I leave the corners off the grids walls to make it easier to sweep the inevitable spill off the shelf. Love your videos.
I had exact same logic with my van. Ended with more or less the same solution. Packing is the key. No disturbing moves in the truck. Next step for me is the energy.
Nicely done. The key is having bins on hand to make it all fit. And, as you mentioned... springing for the best slides. Cheap is never good and the good is never cheap. I missed the "LET GLUE DRY"... your signature thingie.
In the beginning I could not catch what will it turn out o be (well knew it was storage). And the end result was really great to see. So much storage in such a small space, very well thinking.
Looks great. I like the modular aspect of it. I made my own runners for my van. The bought ones were crazy expensive for the weight and length I needed (over $1000 nz!). So I made them from square 20mm pipe and skate board bearings (got the idea from Pask) and it works so so well. Cost me $100 and can take 100’s of kg’s of weight
Would love to see it if you have any pictures/film from the build? I just found this video since I'm looking to to do the same in my motorohome and also realised how expensive the runners are :-D
Laura the looks Smoudo was giving you at the end of the draw build said it all, he was hoping that you was making him his very own sleeping quarters and instead you filled it with storage bins!!! That four weeks camping trip is going to be a very unpleasant one for you by the looks on his face!!! Laura as always 💯% 👍 🇬🇧.
Awesome video! You take the old saying “ a place for everything, and everything in it’s place” to a very very cool level! Thanks for all of the hard work putting these together, they are great!
Dudeee you are so so smart. Doing like so, building like a floor for the drawer will be much stronger and also I can, now, trace the drawer to my trunk. Daaamn, I wish I could be that smart. Thanks for sharing.
3D Zarges-, Systainer- and breadbox -Tetris, spiced with occasional folding seats. I'd become a fan, wouldn't I already be one. Only thing missing here (...yet 😂): The side panel section of the drawer that doubles as an extremly good looking, rocksolid surprise folding table .... . Cheers and thanks for sharing!
This German organization of stuff is pretty cool. I'm a happy messy person, but when you have limited space, you gotta make an extra effort and plan something cool. Congrats Laura!
Germany always has smart stuff. All those slides and crates are specialty items in the US where we have to steal old worn out milk crates from the back of stores as they're not for sale anywhere. The closest thing the US has are 5 gallon buckets.
A girls after my own heart! 😍 I love organizing and organization stuff too!! Love your videos... It just popped up in my feed... And I'm. So glad too! 😊
Should've done this years ago in my van. Looks really good, the grid thing totally makes sense, and having two fixed spots for boxes as drawers is a really neat addon. Thanks for all that inspiration 🤩
All that perfectly neat and organized storage, with everything fitting so perfectly in its place, makes my soul happy. Smudo was excited for the trip too 😄
Hey Laura, great video!! You had me (like) @ “Hello…everybody!”, to borrows cheesy line from “When Harry met Sally”. You are a great inspiration. Keep up the great work. Danke schön!
Great build. The 60x40 follows the rule of thirds which applies to photography’s composition rule, its a great system and easy to relate to. That the Systainer fit I didn’t think of! So indeed it gives me ideas too as I do also like outdoor trips as much as having gear very organised in a caravan, car or trailer.
It is basicly 1/4 of a Euro-Pallet.(120x80cm). So the Euro and beercrades also are fractions of this to meet the Europallet form factor. Systainers are basicly fanzy Eurocrades(which you can get with lids as well). They also have 30x40 which is 1/8 of a Euro-Pallet...
Dam Girl!!! Super super organized... Well done, i love it. At the end of your videos, i feel like i should go right away to my garage to make something with my woods... As you know, i see you as super hero, you have the hands of a goddess 😜😜😜 Laura kampf the "goddess woman", ladies and gentleman the newest world"s super hero 💪 Thanks for this video Laura See ya soon i hope 😎
Greetings Laura - Good video/tutorial, as per usual. 1) So I have a theory. 2)Re: your "pretty - collapsible - sturdy - portable - table" ( PCSPT). 3) Perhaps, possibly, somehow using the principles of your project from today, & combine them with current, & other, principles for creating a user-friendly PCSPT. 4) IE: using some metal bars, or drawer sliders. 5) I am thinking stability & convenience. 6) Thank you, Laura. 7) Ingenuity creates tomorrow, today. 8) Blessings.
Brain wave. Maybe you can use the rail kits from old IT server hardware. The rail kits look very similar and have to bare a lot of weight. The rail kits get thrown out in the thousands by IT brokerages.
Love the eurocrate concept. I custom built my closets to the dimensions of the boxes that reams of paper come in, so that way I could keep off season clothes in these sturdy lidded cardboard boxes and they'd all fit perfectly. At the time I had an unlimited free supply of these boxes because both my partner and I were working in offices that used tons of paper. Since that time we have moved to remote paperless jobs so finding replacement boxes is slightly more difficult.
Hi Laura, once again you have shown how wonderful you brain is when it comes to thinking and then producing any ideas that you have and this weeks one is absolutely fantastic, as it as a plus to it as well because let’s say in the future you decide to sell your camper your sliding drawer will be easy to remove as you have used the factory fitted anchor points in the camper and there is no damage at all by doing that and so I congratulate you on this and I will be looking forward to see what you make next time Laura and until then TaRa for a bit.
Those Euro-crates look similar to what we've always called bread crates in Australia, Not something you could buy in shops(before ebay), & they were pretty much only used commercially for morning bread deliveries, they were easy enough to get hold of second hand though.
