Save storage space in your cabinets and keep your spices, herbs, and seasonings organized and handy with one of these nifty ideas—perfect for a tiny home, camper, or motorhome! These six spice storage ideas in an RV will keep those spices from tipping or spilling while your home is driving down the interstate.
1. Door clips
A set of spice clips like these can be mounted on the inside of a cabinet door.
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If adhesion is a problem, you might try attaching them with removable heavy-duty mounting tape and use plastic containers, like the ones pictured below, instead of heavier glass containers.
2. Wall-mounted spice shelves
A classic, inexpensive option if you have wall space are these narrow shelves.
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This style could maybe be hung with a few adhesive hooks if you don’t want to drill holes in the walls.
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Or, you could try an adhesive rack like this one:
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3. Spice racks & caddies
The owner of this RV mounted this spice rack to an interior pantry wall. A stainless steel version is available as well.
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This spice rack comes in different widths and doesn’t require the purchase of any special spice containers. It offers labels and is fully adjustable to fit your spices. Perhaps it could be mounted under a cabinet with shelf brackets if space inside the cabinet was limited!
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Here’s an interesting spice caddy I saw an RV owner recommend in a Facebook discussion. You can stack more than one, and the dials allow you to measure out the correct amount without using a measuring spoon.
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4. Under cabinets
Speaking of mounting spices under cabinets, one RV owner added a piano hinge and hook-and-eye latch to a wooden box and mounted it under a cabinet. You could make something similar with an unfinished wooden box and latch. I might also add a chain support (or ribbon) to help it not fall open too far.
A similar idea in this how-to video by Nifty on BuzzFeed uses an art supply box.
5. That weird space in your RV kitchen
A lot of RVs have a “hole” like this that is often wasted space. It’s called a false panel, usually in place to mimic a drawer where a drawer can’t fit. It often isn’t deep enough to fit spices, but it can be modified.
This RVer adapted the space to fit spices. A matching color tension rod can be placed across the front to help hold them in place during travel.
6. Magnetic spice containers
Magnetic spice containers can be stuck to a refrigerator, to a baking sheet mounted on a wall, or to the bottom of a cabinet. You could even spray paint an old stained baking sheet a pretty color to act as your magnetic surface.
One RV owner mounted a baking sheet spice rack on a kitchen wall using removable Command strips. Velcro or my favorite acrylic mounting tape would also probably work well for this purpose.
You can buy a magnetic sheet and jars as a set on Amazon. This one is particularly stylish!
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RV owner Lisa Long simply sticks her magnetic spice containers on the metal range hood over her stove:
If you don’t want to purchase fancy magnetic spice containers (which can get pricey for someone like me who has a LOT of spices), you can just glue magnets to the tops of spice containers you already have.
Empty baby food jars would also work great for this (although you might want to use stronger magnets since glass is heavier). This type of glue works the best for gluing the magnets to non-porous surfaces like metal and glass.
Here is how I currently have my spices stored in my RV. The containers themselves are not magnetic; the wall is. You can read about how I made it in my post called “How I Made the Ultimate Magnetic Spice Wall.”
If you need more ideas for organizing your kitchen, you might enjoy reading my blog post about fruit and root vegetable storage ideas.
Ashley Mann spent three years living full time in a 38-foot, 5th-wheel RV with her husband Josiah and their cat, Kitty. Her favorite thing about RV life is the challenge of finding the perfect way to organize a space, and she loves seeing all the creative and clever ways people come up with to customize their RVs.
I had those round metal magnetic spice holders and hated them. If one grain of the spice got in between the lid and the container you could no longer use it. The lid froze where it was and that was it. No matter how hard I tried I could not loosen it. Much prefer the shelves.