I hear what you are saying about creature mods. Here's one I did that might be worth thinking about. I took the 19" TV out of the cubby hole it was in and put my media equipment in that space. Then I mounted and wired in a new Boston 5 speaker system with floor mounted sub woofer. For the new 37" Plasma TV I built a wall over the door between the kitchen cabinets and shower. The only thing I have left to do is build a v-shaped spacer for the TV mount to give it just a few more degrees of angle. As it is I prefer to sit at the dinette to watch, although my wife prefers the couch in front of the TV. Not only do we have a great TV now, we can really crank up the stereo when we're in the mood.
BTW the trailer has been over the Alcan 3 times since installing these modifications with out any problems. The trailers got more than 20K miles since this mod.