Potential New Travel Trailer Owner Question
The wife and I have been looking and looking at RVs for awhile. We thought a motor home would be what we wanted but after renting and living in one for a week we’ve decided a travel trailer will fit u...
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DutchmenSport wrote:
After 1 pop-up and 3 different Travel Trailers, I'd never have a murphey bed. It has to be set up every night, put up every morning. Constantly moving things around to accommodate the space when the bed is lowered. After a while, I imagine the bed just stays in the down position because it becomes a pain up and down every day. Then the rest of the camper is cramped, and you'll be living on the bed all the time.
Our 2nd travel trailer had an uncomfortable living room area (low backed couch, tight dinette and benches, and television in the absolutely wrong place. It wasn't comfortable at all. We ended up using the camper less and less, and when we did, we were exclusively in the bedroom watching the television there in the evening or rainy days.
After a while, the interest in that camper became less and less. We realized we didn't like the arrangement and simply were not using it. It came to the point where we decided to either sell it completely and get out of the RV business or get a new one. We ended up getting a new one with a rear living room, put in our own couch and removed the free-standing kitchen table and chairs. We now "literally" live in the camper (at home, drive way camp) from April till December! Very seldom go in the house. We love it that much. Not to mention all the trips we take now.
If it were a Murphy bed arrangement, I think it would never get used. Actually, we'd simply just never have one. But not everyone is like us. For someone else, the space may work ok for them.
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be patient and try to find the best floor plan for you. we have a rear kitchen, no bunk 33ft wildwood. has a dinette (i took out dinette table and turned one bench seat against wall to make an L-shaped couch, we now eat off tv trays. we have a very uncomfortable j-knife sofa that will be replaced at some point. had 2 tiny recliners. i removed one close to outside door and put in a small shelf cubby hole style there to put shoes in, and use top for iphone ipad charging station.
we enjoy being outside of camper as much as possible however there will be alot of times when its raining. or cold, or extremely hot and its nice to have a comfortable living area to watch tv, or relax and read etc.
