Replacing Furniture in Trailer?
Anyone ever replaced furniture in their trailer? Assuming the pieces separate for easy entry? Been kicking around the idea about upgrading to bigger trailer due to an unforeseen addition to our househ...
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We just got a Lambright Harrison double recliner a couple of weeks ago at the start of our annual RV-'n vacation. Wow, wow, wow! It is SO comfortable. Best mod/upgrade ever... :)
The RV furniture shop installed it for us. It's designed to just clip together and they had installed in literally just a couple of minutes - no tools required. Each seat section and back comes separately and easily fit through an entry door. The frame is almost entirely steel and has proper steel springs under the cushions. VERY well made, but not exactly cheap. Lazyboy furniture can be more tho.
Our old jacknife sofa was made by Lippert and besides being painful torture to use, it was a flimsy piece of junk. The foam cushions are held in place by a few plastic banding straps (like on cardboard packaging) and 1/2 of them snapped a month or two ago. Need to remove 8 bolts to take it apart to remove. Sold it on CL and got a whopping $100 for it even though it looked like new. That stuff is a tough sell.
One thing I can tell you to watch out for is the overall depth of what you want to install. If in a slide, some slides are not very deep (like ours). Our slide is only 25" deep inside and the Lambright recliner is 38" overall according to the manufacturer, but actually sits a bit closer to the wall. The front feet overhang our slide floor by 3". It's currently sitting on a temporary piece of plywood but when back home will make a frame from angle steel to sit on and overhang the floor.
Seat height above the floor is typically designed for the furniture sitting directly on a floor. Our slide floor is 1 1/2" above the main floor and our feet dangle above the main floor a bit. It just seems to be the way it is. There is "front row" home theater seating out there that is designed to sit lower to the floor. Some slide floors are higher from the floor.
The nice thing about the Lambright recliner is that it is available with 2 different seat back heights which can be a factor if you have a low window behind it. Also comes in 2 different widths. We got the narrower one and it is more than wide enough for our two behinds... We had some friends visit us and stay overnight one night and surprisingly they both slept fine in the recliner (in extended position). Lambright's 58" wide version has approx. the same inside dimensions as our old Lippert sofa (arm to arm) so a person should be able to lay down in it.
Lastly, if you get something with power recline, it's 120 volts only and may want to take that into account. Not good for dry camping without a generator or inverter.
Some have bought ordinary home furniture but you might find that furniture designed for RVS is more suitable in terms of dimensions and features. Most (or all?) home furniture will fit through an RV entry door from what I've read.
The RV furniture shop installed it for us. It's designed to just clip together and they had installed in literally just a couple of minutes - no tools required. Each seat section and back comes separately and easily fit through an entry door. The frame is almost entirely steel and has proper steel springs under the cushions. VERY well made, but not exactly cheap. Lazyboy furniture can be more tho.
Our old jacknife sofa was made by Lippert and besides being painful torture to use, it was a flimsy piece of junk. The foam cushions are held in place by a few plastic banding straps (like on cardboard packaging) and 1/2 of them snapped a month or two ago. Need to remove 8 bolts to take it apart to remove. Sold it on CL and got a whopping $100 for it even though it looked like new. That stuff is a tough sell.
One thing I can tell you to watch out for is the overall depth of what you want to install. If in a slide, some slides are not very deep (like ours). Our slide is only 25" deep inside and the Lambright recliner is 38" overall according to the manufacturer, but actually sits a bit closer to the wall. The front feet overhang our slide floor by 3". It's currently sitting on a temporary piece of plywood but when back home will make a frame from angle steel to sit on and overhang the floor.
Seat height above the floor is typically designed for the furniture sitting directly on a floor. Our slide floor is 1 1/2" above the main floor and our feet dangle above the main floor a bit. It just seems to be the way it is. There is "front row" home theater seating out there that is designed to sit lower to the floor. Some slide floors are higher from the floor.
The nice thing about the Lambright recliner is that it is available with 2 different seat back heights which can be a factor if you have a low window behind it. Also comes in 2 different widths. We got the narrower one and it is more than wide enough for our two behinds... We had some friends visit us and stay overnight one night and surprisingly they both slept fine in the recliner (in extended position). Lambright's 58" wide version has approx. the same inside dimensions as our old Lippert sofa (arm to arm) so a person should be able to lay down in it.
Lastly, if you get something with power recline, it's 120 volts only and may want to take that into account. Not good for dry camping without a generator or inverter.
Some have bought ordinary home furniture but you might find that furniture designed for RVS is more suitable in terms of dimensions and features. Most (or all?) home furniture will fit through an RV entry door from what I've read.
