Floor Plan Pet Peeves

DunellenGuy wrote:
As my wife and I are looking at multiple Class A DPs, we've found so many floor plans that would be great, "If only...." Our two top pet peeves:

1) Can't watch the TV from the couch. Really? Do they really think I want to sit down after a long day, pick up a glass of my favorite beverage, and watch TV from the dinette?

2) No shelf beside the bed. Are there really that many people who don't need a place to put your glasses, hearing aids, CPAP machine, or that great book you've been reading just before you turn out the lights? Where do they expect us to put those things?

Can you add to the list? What are the floor plan features that have made you think, "What were they thinking?"

What a fun and interesting topic. Every now and then, the DW and I think about upgrading to a DP and it's unbelievably hard to find a floor plan that we like, mostly for all of the reasons cited in the posts above.

In the meantime, I've tallied the responses (aggregating somewhat and not counting those that really don't state a peeve). To the extent the peeve can be stated simply, here's a rough count:

1. TV at right angles to couch (or back to one side of dinette): 9
2. No shelf beside bed: 4
3. Oddly-shaped or inadequate inside storage/drawers: 4
4. Slides that obstruct usability when in: 3
5. And one each for: dining area on driver's side, closets that aren't deep enough, lack of a driver's door, a bedroom light switch that isn't reachable from the bed, no reading lights in the right places, toilet in the hallway (obstructing access to bedroom while the toilet is in use), and skylight in the bedroom.

Numbers 1, 2, and 4 are our peeves too.

I hope the manufacturers are reading this. Several times we've found a unit that we would otherwise consider, but for one of these deficiencies.

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