Another drawer option...

[peislander]

Like most new Camplite owners I soon missed having a convenient drawer for cutlery. While I could live without, my wife found adding one to be her top priority. So we added a drawer. At Home Depot we found a 'multi-use basket' on full extension slides similar to [a href="http://www.homedepot.ca/product/17-inch-multi-use-basket/867757"]this example by Real Solutions[/a]. The one we bought is not as wide but otherwise the same. (The smaller size one is not listed in Home Depot's Canadian website so I linked to the bigger one that is). We bought one that was narrower than the cabinet doors under the sink in our Camplite C11FDB. To mount it up tight to the underside of the sink we needed to cut out the back part of the basket where it conflicted with the sink drain. Since the basket is strongly made of powder-coated heavy gauge steel wire it was still plenty strong after hacksawing off all the conflicts. The drawer is designed to mount to the bottom of a conventional kitchen cabinet so there are support straps between the two slides. It is intended that you screw those straps directly to the bottom of the cabinet. In the Camplite we installed some hardwood strips (say 5/8" x 1-1/2") that spanned across the cabinets interior aluminum framing. To those strips we mounted the drawer's support straps -- positioning the drawer up where we needed it. It is very stable and left plenty of usable space below the new drawer. (The drawer uses the under-utilized storage space up tight to the sink). The drawer has space for a cutlery organizer tray -- as you can see in the pic we used a modular snap-together type one. Having cutlery drawer has proven itself to be very handy. I suppose I have to admit that my wife was right.

[2moonunit]

I think I have a project for this weekend.  Thanks!  

[bobbie56]

[quote source="/post/9825/thread" timestamp="1429800470" author="@bae146"]I think I have a project for this weekend.  Thanks!  
[/quote]Me too, and they are in stock at our Home Depot too.

[peislander]

I'll take a picture tonight to show you good folks how I supported the drawer's support straps & what the cut away part looks like...

Remember to measure your cabinet before heading to the store. If I recall correctly there were two sizes available and the dimensions were on the boxes. I found the units in the part of the store where they sell kitchen organizers & kitchen waste bins.

[peislander]

So I went out to the trailer and took a few more pictures. Turns out that since I had taken that original pic above some months ago I had actually installed a second drawer. I had forgotten all about that! I also found we had also purchased a third drawer to be installed in the lower cabinet -- again I had forgotten about that one too. Yikes, I think I'm starting to get old...


[img style="Real Solutions Basket Drawer" style="max-width:100%;" src="http://s30.postimg.org/4x3thhwup/DSCF3447.jpg"]


So the above pic shows what the uninstalled drawer look like. The 'basket' part snaps into the slider part. The snapping takes a lot of force. Separating them like they are shown can make it easier to cut any of the bars of the basket should you need to do that for clearance.



[img style="max-width:100%;" style="Cabinet with two drawers installed" src="http://s7.postimg.org/m2smka5xn/DSCF3448.jpg"]

In the above pic you can see both drawers installed. The lower one was actually an easier install as the straps that support the sliders could be screwed to the cabinet bottom. Note that we found 1/4" spacers were needed between the cabinet shelf and the straps in order for the drawer to clear the frame associated with the cabinet door. For this bottom drawer we still had to cut off some of the steel bars from the back of the basket as the sink's plumbing trap extends down quite far in our trailer. Without cutting those bars the drawer would have hit the trap and not been able to be pushed all the way into the cabinet. In the pic you can also see the hardwood strip we used to support the upper drawer. In our cabinet it is positioned above the cabinet's aluminum framing at the dinette side of the cabinet. You'll note that in our trailer there is a fridge on the other side. The cabinet had an aluminum sheet metal gable on that side that we attached the hardwood supports to. Hopefully in your trailers you'll have something you can use for support. The pic below shows the how the hardwood strip is supported at the side closest to the fridge.




[img style="Portions of the basket removed for clearance" style="max-width:100%;" src="http://s16.postimg.org/linkd8isl/DSCF3450.jpg"]

The pic above shows how much of the upper basket needed to be cut away to provide clearance for the plumbing associated with the sink drain. Note that in normal use the drawer is not normally pulled out this far. The baskets are really long as they are made for standard 24" deep kitchen base cabinets. There is enough room between those cut bottom bars and the front of the basket to hold a standard cutlery tray. Even with the bars cut like that the drawer remains adequately sturdy. I note the best way I found to cut those bars was using a metal cutting blade on a portable jig saw. Cutting the steel bars will quickly wear out the blade so make sure you have a few. I also note that in our case far less bars were cut on the lower drawer -- really just the top bar at the drawer's back side.

Anyways --- If you are inclined to try installing these kind of drawers in your trailer I wish you luck and hope you don't find it too difficult. You can expect a few frustrations but remember to "Don't worry. Be Happy".