Smart storage for vanlife – HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR RV / VAN

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Hello and welcome to our blog. Here we collect all sorts of cool gadget for tiny living and we are so happy that you have found us. We also have a blog post about our favorite kitchen gadgets for tiny living.

But now, let’s tak about small storage containers for organizing your drawers as well as being able to store clothes in a smart way. We all know that when living tiny we really need to think about our space. Everything always have to be in it’s designated spot.

Let’s get in to it.

How to organize drawers?

You know that drawers that every kitchen has. It has batteries, pens, cords, receipts, lipbalm, you name it. It doesn’t matter how many times you organize it and take stuff out you always end up throwing something down to it when you are in a rush and a week later it’s full again.

So firstly you make sure to organize your drawer and take out everything you won’t need. It’s okey to throw away that lipbalm you never use or that pen that you just saved because. Then you get these super smart little plastic containers. In each of the container you put on thing and make sure to stick to it. In our drawer we have different cords for our phones, chargers for laptops etc and we also have medication, pens, make up, batteries etc. Everything has it’s place in each plastic containers. It’s perfect!


Plastic drawer containers

These are a life saver in our drawers, specially the junk drawer. In ours we have pens, paper, make up, batteries, different chargers, medicin, band aids. You name it!

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Baskets

Strangely enough we keep our tea cups and glasses in these. We just think they are so pretty!

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Storage containers for our kitchen

We have all our food in this, they are so good. They are light weight, super easy to take in and out of a cupboard and they are coinvenient to hold and carry since they have handles on the side. So we have put these storage container in our kitchen cupboards.

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Pack Bags

We put  our clothe sin pack bags, it clears up the space in our wardrobe and they are easy to take out and unpack each bag instead of having to pull out all your clothes

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Plastic Containers 3 sizes

In our van we have built this little shelf where we can store our every day goods. It was important that it didn’t look to plasticky but at the sam time was a good size and could store our food in an aesthetically pleasing way, yes for us this is important. A van/RV is such a small space and we really wanted our home to look homey and pretty all the time.


1,5 Liter plastic container

The perfect size for flour and sugar, we also have tea in ours since we are massive tea lovers.

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1.1 Liter plastic container

Perfect for morning müsli or nuts, raisins etc.

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150ml plastic jars with aluminum lids

These ones we have spics in but we also store sauces in the fridge when we make etc. Home made mayo or a good sallad dressing.

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Indie Åkerblom

Indra Akerblom (also called Indie) is one of 2 founders of Onthefreeside. She is a creative soul with an extra passion for digital creativity and DIY- building. Indie lives together with Joel in their self-converted van, traveling the world and building a tiny house in the Swedish countryside.

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