Bunk rooms....for storage?

If the bunks are in the rear then you absolutely must keep a watch on how much weight you put there. Without a tongue scale handy you will just be playing roulette with the tongue weight issue. All it will take is one time for your trailer to go into a wild sway condition and you will be convinced, if it does not cause you to lose control. 10% to 15% of the trailer weight is what you want for tongue weight, so to know those numbers a trip to the CAT scale is needed.

I am replying to an old topic, but I feel it also applies to the future. We just bought a 23 foot travel trailer. I wanted the bunk beds specifically for storage for clothing and linens. I bought folding boxes covered in fabric in the same color as the cover on the beds. They fold up flat when not in use, like in the winter. The top bunk holds 2 sleeping bags, extra pillows, extra blankets and 2 jackets. The bottom bunk holds the folding boxes with sheets for both our Murphy bed and the dinette bed if used, towels, wash cloths, table cloths and the few clothes that do not fit in the tiny closets. Also a folding box that holds DVDs, coloring books, crayons, kindles and games. If grand kids go with us, we will put all nicely organized boxes in the back of our Yukon so the beds can be used instead of making up the dinette bed. If more than 2 go with us, we can still make up the dinette and we will have the required linens for it. The bunk beds can be made up with the sleeping bags. I love it. Its like a "tiny house".

On our Timberlodge 30' we converted the bunk area to a computer/sewing room. However, we have just been using it for storage so far.

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Does making mods to a TT reduce the resale value?

in most cases YES

Does making mods to a TT reduce the resale value?

RoyB...what a brilliant idea!! I had thoughts of setting up an office in the BH as well!!

We have bunks and don't use them for sleeping but we do enjoy the extra storage. The top bunk is fishing poles, breads, towels, the bottom bunk is for heavier things like camera bags and coolers.

It is so nice having someplace to just put coats and whatever without having to cram it into a storage area or have it in our way. I have considered pulling the bunks and making a small office area or adding a few rods for clothes. What I'd really like to do is take them out and expand the bathroom.

Like posted by others, you could create a weight/balance problem that could be exacerbated if the BH location is behind the axles. By your posts you sound like you want to do fairly long term outings, if not fulltiming. You'd be surprised how fast stuff (therefore weight) accumulates. Lighten the tongue by loading a lot toward the rear, you'll experience handling issues, and maybe tire/trailer suspension issues. Load the tongue too heavy may cause grief for your TV's rear axle and suspension.Loading an RV is a not unlike loading an aircraft or boat, you don't have obsess over it but do have to give some thought to weight and balance.

My wife always considered the bunkroom her walk-in closet. When we were full-timers, I put a closet pole in one of the bunks so she could hang up more stuff. The regular closet in the TT was plenty big enough for me.

When we was looking for a trailer with hard sides back in 2010 I came up with this idea on what to do with a bunk bed area for this JAYCO X213 model... My idea was to make a OFFICE/COMPUTER/HAM RADIO room in the bunk room area which we really didn't have a need for since there is only two of us using the trailer.

The BUNK BED area is up front on this model...






The top bunk bed shown here would also be removed. As you can see a pretty large area can be made available


The idea was to remove the lower and upper beds and make a 24-inch deep storage area just inside the so-called bicycle door by installing a wall across the bunk room.

The new floor plan would look something like this shown in dark blue.


The OFFICE AREA would consist of one of these L-SHAPED DESK with hutch combos available from Office Depot. The L-side would have to be cut down to fit the depth of the room.


The L-side of the desk setup would house my two 24-inch computer monitors, docking station, and DELL M90 LAPTOP computer. Just snap the portable computer in place and all is active. The hutch area would house all of my Ham radio items. The long 12-depth cabinet that run across the front wall of the bunk room would house all of the Inverters/switches/battery functions etc. Office printer would under the desk tops. All items mounted will have VELCRO strap down installed feature to keep from boucning around when in travel mode.

I Still get a small 22-inch storage room just inside the outside doorway. The clothes ward also has a small outside door which opens up behind the clothes ward as well.

I would use a draw curtain to hide the roll around office chair when not is use.

Looked like a very workable plan for the two of us to have a good office area with full internet access using the Verizon MIFI or the Millenicom Net if more data is needed and be able to still work my Ham Radio items as well...

As it turned out we are still running the roads with the OFF-RoAD POPUP

Just sending along showing what might be done with alittle of thinking effort...

Roy ken