Show me your ingenious storage ideas for awkward cupboards / lockers.

[Phil_boat]

Please!

The storage in my Merry Fisher 755 Marlin isn’t very useful. There’s plenty of volume but it’s awkward to utilise well.

There’s 2 top loading lockers and two doors, which don’t open fully due to the seat pedestals in front.

I bought some plastic boxes but they’re not the solution.

Has anyone done anything clever with similar space or got any great ideas?

Cheers

(Some not great pics…)

 

[PabloPicasso]

Perhaps alter the doors so you can open them. A bi-fold door? Cut the door down the middle and put a hinge there so it opens in half the space.

Have more smaller opening doors.

Put a rail accross ¼ of the way up to stop things falling out?

½ opening sliding doors perhaps? These can have a catch to stop them.opening when you don't want them to.

Slide and hide doors, or up and over like a mini garage door. Or just hinge at the top or bottom?

Get creative with how the doors open, or build in drawers?

Move cables and pipes to the back of the lockers and retain with clips to.maximise space. Elongate the service holes so you can move them back out the way.

Put in shelves with "fiddle" edges to retain things, add upright dividers as needed for the same reason.

Decide what the locker is for and customise it for that purpose.

That'll all develop your spacial woodworking skills.

 

[jakew009]

Buy a bigger boat

 

[fredrussell]

…Put in shelves with "fiddle" edges to retain things, add upright dividers as needed for the same reason…

That’s my favourite solution for deep lockers.

 

[Boathook]

My boat has cables and pipes all over the place from previous owners 'work' taking up lockers. It's going to be an ongoing project to tidy up. Still early days, as I only purchased the boat late December.