westernrvparkowner wrote:
Wes Tausend wrote:
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These are all great floorplans. My DW (DearWife) and I love to peruse room arrangements and various plans. I understand why these styles appeal to you.
I think our plan is similar to Barney's. We finally settled on a walk-through bath to save wasting hallway as you and Barney likewise. Because of the extra wall at the foot, our bedroom is then a little more cramped, but we use the large bath aisle for dressing anyway. So do our guests, all taking turns:
We often invite guests that need to maintain privacy too, and nobody has to crawl over anybody to get to the bathroom. We leave both doors slightly ajar overnight and whoever uses the bathroom shuts both tight, then cracks them again a bit for signal when done. Guests have remarked that our camper is the most convenient plan to double in.
As a bonus, the doubledoor bit keeps both sleeping areas amazingly sound isolated from the other, even when cracked open. When we camp alone, my wife often closes both bath doors in the morning to keep from disturbing me, the one who stayed up late by the campfire. Also, if I shower late, or she showers early, we do not disturb the other as much with a door in between.
Incidentally, your 246RKS photo is oversized for the page, causing readers to have to scroll sideways.
Enjoy your new camper, whatever you decide.
Wes
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Am I missing a door between the living area and the toilet and shower area? If not, what do you do if you have guests and someone needs to shower or use the toilet.
It doesn't show, but there is a sliding door inside the wall between the large pantry and the spacious bath wardrobe. The opposing wall (the TV cabinet sidewall) also has the hall thermostat control on it. The other slider door is already properly shown along side the bedroom wall. They both slide very smoothly and quietly.
To signify night-time availability when we have guests, both these sliders are left 95% closed while the bath is unoccupied, thereby splitting the camper and blocking the majority of the view and noise (not otherwise possible in most floorplans). Wearing appropriate public night clothes to enter the bath is still encouraged. During use, the occupant closes one, usually both, doors entirely of course.
During periods of privately dressing/undressing, just the nearest door is ordinarily closed. All-in-all, in use it is a simple-to-understand privacy arrangement that works extraordinarily well.
Like the OP, we like that there is no wasted hallway along side a separate bathroom. This saved extra space becomes quite usable in the bath for generous stool foot-room, drying off, or dressing. By eliminating the hall footage, there is also enough floor space left over for two people to share bath facilities at one time, should they desire.
Offhand, many smaller, or less practical floorplans are forced to skip the pantry and/or bath closet. To DW's delight, our large kitchen pantry has deep, wide rolling drawers and oodles of upper storage space. The generous bath closet contains not only all the towels, sundries etc, but a roomy clothing bureau shelf for each of us, quite handy since we normally dress in the private open floor space there.
The master bedroom has the normal pair of side closets for hanging clothing. We spent a lot of time selecting this type floorplan because it met many criteria other plans did not. The only thing we would change in a TT, is to have a second slideout for a larger bedroom, maybe a kingsize bed. The second slideout may began to strain
some 1/2 ton trucks, but we soon went 3/4 ton initially anyway.
We also apply the same practical lay-out logic to motorhomes we have looked at, and only a few meet our criteria in spite of being 40', instead of only 30' (like our TT). Of great note here, for ease of towing, several of the OP's choices are 6' shorter than 30' (@ only 24', one @ 23'!) yet retain much of the roomy-ness feeling of our 30 footer. Good job fugawi, I say!
Wes
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