Our Outback (Travel Trailer) came with free standing furniture. It originally came with 2 rocker, 1 love-seat size hide a bed, 1 stand alone table, and 4 kitchen table chairs.
We ended up removing the 2 rocker chairs, the kitchen table and the 4 chairs. We left the hide-a-bed love seat size sofa and we replaced a house-hold (real) sofa instead of the kitchen table, chairs, and rockers. We never used the kitchen table, except for collecting junk and a dumping place for everything. It was always a mess, and wasted space.
In your consideration of a rear living room 5er, you might consider looking for one with the same type of "stand alone" furniture. Then after you purchase the camper, replace with what you really want. This way, you no dinettes to remove, or anything to tear apart. Just simply removed the existing furniture and get what you really want.
Of course, you also have to make sure it will fit in the door, which was our biggest challenge when looking for that couch.
We loved the couch so much in the camper, a couple years later we purchased the same identical one for our house.
Original furniture:
We moved the original furniture around a little, and eventually took out two of the kitchen chairs. We turned the table and I re-anchored it to the floor to allow better passage when the slides were "in".
Slides "in"...
In spite of all our ability to move the original furniture around, we were still not pleased with it. We replaced with this... been VERY VERY happy ever since:
I ended up putting wheels under the sofa so it could be turned facing the rear window (and the television). On wheels, it's very easy to just swing around when the slides are out. We have a full 180 degree view facing the back of the camper with our opposing slides rear living room Outback. We absolutely love this configuration now. I suppose that's why we stay in the camper, in the driveway at home, almost 100% of the time too, when we have a perfectly good house! We just love this arrangement!
Here's the one we bought for the house. We also bought the matching rocker-recliner. I built that ramp so our dachshund can easily get up on the sofa. My grandson has a lot of fun running up
and down it too.
I guess, where I'm going with this is, if you find a model you like, you can always swap out the furniture, if it's all free standing, it's very easy to do.
What became of our old furniture? The two rockers went to Good will. My 30 year old son broke one of the kitchen chairs. 2 kitchen chairs are in storage at home. The table is currently in our kitchen in the house, used as a stand for my wife's KUREG coffee maker and all the coffee paraphernalia.
We ended up removing the 2 rocker chairs, the kitchen table and the 4 chairs. We left the hide-a-bed love seat size sofa and we replaced a house-hold (real) sofa instead of the kitchen table, chairs, and rockers. We never used the kitchen table, except for collecting junk and a dumping place for everything. It was always a mess, and wasted space.
In your consideration of a rear living room 5er, you might consider looking for one with the same type of "stand alone" furniture. Then after you purchase the camper, replace with what you really want. This way, you no dinettes to remove, or anything to tear apart. Just simply removed the existing furniture and get what you really want.
Of course, you also have to make sure it will fit in the door, which was our biggest challenge when looking for that couch.
We loved the couch so much in the camper, a couple years later we purchased the same identical one for our house.
Original furniture:
We moved the original furniture around a little, and eventually took out two of the kitchen chairs. We turned the table and I re-anchored it to the floor to allow better passage when the slides were "in".
Slides "in"...
In spite of all our ability to move the original furniture around, we were still not pleased with it. We replaced with this... been VERY VERY happy ever since:
I ended up putting wheels under the sofa so it could be turned facing the rear window (and the television). On wheels, it's very easy to just swing around when the slides are out. We have a full 180 degree view facing the back of the camper with our opposing slides rear living room Outback. We absolutely love this configuration now. I suppose that's why we stay in the camper, in the driveway at home, almost 100% of the time too, when we have a perfectly good house! We just love this arrangement!
Here's the one we bought for the house. We also bought the matching rocker-recliner. I built that ramp so our dachshund can easily get up on the sofa. My grandson has a lot of fun running up
and down it too.
I guess, where I'm going with this is, if you find a model you like, you can always swap out the furniture, if it's all free standing, it's very easy to do.
What became of our old furniture? The two rockers went to Good will. My 30 year old son broke one of the kitchen chairs. 2 kitchen chairs are in storage at home. The table is currently in our kitchen in the house, used as a stand for my wife's KUREG coffee maker and all the coffee paraphernalia.
