Mattresses finally came in, I cut up the 4" memory foam topper for the dinette cushions / bed. Very comfy. My 13 y/o son came up with an idea for sleeping for 5 instead of me rigging up a bunk style bed over the dinette. At night put the kitchen sink/stove down and make the entire camper a bed. It's a whole lot easier than what I had planed, too. I just needed to rip down a 2x6 to make a temp night floor joist that spanned over the toilet cover & cooler cabinet, then put 6 2"x3" sleepers over the sink base bridging to my temp joist, then 3 sheets of 1/2" 2'x6' plywood for the bed base. That makes a 6'x6' bed for the three kids. The 3 pieces of plywood can be stowed easily on the end wall out of the way during the day, the joist & sleepers can be stowed beneath the camper during the day. When closed up, the big bed will stay in position to hold up the hard side walls like the old roll out bed ends used to.
Here's a pic of the dinette cushions & carpet runner that we had in storage for 7 years that just happened to work for this.
Corners covered in Eternabond.
Bed system.
I'll post more pics when I get the plywood cut and assembled.
Mike UP, we like the idea of the hard walls instead of the tent ends, at least for now. The good thing about the hard walls is that it's been up since I got it, almost three weeks now. In that time we've had some serious wind and lots of rain, you wouldn't know it by the way the hard/ water proof FRP covered walls handled it. I like not having to worry about it like that. Thanks for the links.
