Comfortable seating in a TC

We do the same in our off-road POPUP setup. Setup the large wrap around seating into a lounge and throw in some cushions.. Great hang-out area for watching HDTV...

We usually eat outside under the awning or picnic table...



our lounge setup


Since there is only the two of us the tent bed area you see here behind the lounge is our daytime catch all area...

gotta do with what you have...
Roy Ken

My first TC a Popup Pine Mountain by Jayco had a JackKnife sofa, I loved it, more comfortable than a dinette! Takes up less space as well, and make a small bed.

My camper also came factory with a "jack-knife" sofa instead of a dinette arrangement. I much prefer this as it does what you want: gives you a real place to sit. The back of the couch folds out and down to make a bed when necessary.
Some of the largest double and triple slide TCs some with a couch across the back in addition to the dinette. I think one,(Host Everest maybe) has 2 chairs.

Our TC came with a couch option - it's a real couch, not pillows leaned against the wall. The table is a long rectangle that sits parallel with the couch, and can be turned 90 degrees to overhand the center of the couch making a little dinette. We use the table both ways: usually eating, we just sit side-by-side. If we need to face each other (playing cards or something), we turn the table 90 degrees.

The couch folds flat into a bed, which we usually configure to watch movies with the TV set up on the kitchen counter. When we have the dogs with us, our 120lb lab sleep on the couch in 'bed mode'. The couch is surprisingly comfortable.

I'm a TC couch evangelist: my wife refused to buy a TC with a dinette. She has childhood memories of uncomfortable, straight-backed dinettes, sitting bolt-upright looking at the rain outside for hours.

I'm convinced the ONLY reason dinettes are still used is because it's the traditional arrangement that people expect - and people don't like change. There is (IMO) absolutely NOTHING you can do with a dinette that you can't do better/ more comfortably with a couch (unless you seat 4 - 6 people at your dinette - it's just the two of us).

It boggles my mind a bit that there are people who want a couch AND a dinette in a TC, but to each his own.

I just drop the dinette into bed mode, toss on some big pillows and sprawl out. No loss of the table for eating or doing computer work and more room than I need to sprawl. Best of all no extra weight added to the rig