Floorplans: Front or Rear facing living room preference?

OP:
Thanks for all the replies. Seems like there are advantages to both floorplans. Appreciate your inputs.

35H here, love the front living area, extra 2 seats, and the view with all the shades open out the front.

We have the 33C, which is almost the same as the 35K without the extra 1/2 bath.

The fold out seat is not any harder than the non-fold out seat. With the front sofa FP, you loose the end table next to the couch (there is also an outlet there, which we use for the lamp on the table).

Since it is mostly just the two of us, we love the floorplan. We can both watch tv without craning our neck to one side or the other. We use one of the dinette drawers for shoe storage so they aren't all over the place and in the way and so we don't track mud and dirt through the coach.

The fridge is completely accessible as the L part folds into the rest of the sofa. We travel as much as we sit and the only inaccessible things on our rig when closed up are the bottom cabinet and drawers in the bedroom and the underbed storage.

We have had 4 people in our rig and the conversation flowed just fine. We have had 7 people in the rig and that worked too, with the front seats turned around. Also, because the tv is angled, most every seat has a view on game day. With the tv against the wall in front, viewing is a little more awkward.

The rear sofa FP actually has a longer slide; therefore, more floor space, not less.

We love our floor plan. After looking at almost every floorplan in existence, we wouldn't change anything about the one we have. One of the benefits of a separate area 'over there' is that, like now, I can work at my desk (the passenger seat with pull out desk) while DH is back in the 'pit' watching tv and playing video games. We have 'separate spaces' to do our own thing while in 34' of living space. Cozy but perfect.

No question the front facing or the E. Being able to use the front chairs in living area is huge expansion of living space. I like my U shaped. Most of the time it is L. We can sit on it when necessary but nice to lean back and swing legs up on the end.

lanerd wrote:
Those "undesirable" view can simply be covered up by lowering the front window shade.

I agree the rear facing really limits the "conversation" area as there are only a few places to sit. Utilizing the front driver's/co-pilot seats provides two more spaces.

"the end of the L is typically very hard and very uncomfortable.

Good points.
H'mm, the L was my seat! DW suggested a moveable chair, so any couch can be transformed into a conversation pit"

Maybe I should modify the question to: Do you prefer the couch toward the front or toward the rear of the main living area?

RollnHome wrote:
I have a center living room Discovery 40X

I'd consider that a rear couch, since the dinette is in the front.

Drew, yes access to all systems underway is essential. I'll verify that.

I have a center living room Discovery 40X and like it. I would not own either of the two floor plans you have asked us to look at. No comfort room. Center living space too crowded, no need for wasted space front bathroom takes. Do not like front living area inn other floorplan, just too awkward and crowded for my tastes.

I haven't "lived it" in either one, but...from the website cartoons, it appears to me that the 35K fridge would be practically inaccessible while en route with the slide slid in. If you're thinking of traveling a bunch (rather than being stationary much of the time), that could be a real annoyance.

Those "undesirable" view can simply be covered up by lowering the front window shade.

I agree the rear facing really limits the "conversation" area as there are only a few places to sit. Utilizing the front driver's/co-pilot seats provides two more spaces.

I have also found that on the "L" shaped couches, the end of the L that slips under the rest of the couch to allow the slides to be retracted is typically very hard and very uncomfortable. Not a place where one would want to sit for an extended period of time.

Ron