Re-arranging the furniture
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:39 pm
If any of you have the WBLE as I do, you may know that the convertible sofa/bed poses a small problem when it is extended as a bed.
We had just purchased our 2006 30WBLE and got it home to find that the sofa-bed when opened up actually knocked against the kitchen cabinet return on the opposite side.
Since we are empty nesters, we were not buying our trailer with children in mind (for the first time ever) we kinda dismissed it even though I thought FR had done some poor planning.
Well, it seems our kids wanted to follow us anyway when we went out on a few trips and one or two on occasion slept indoors on that sofa. The problem is we sleep on different time schedules, so when I arose in the early a.m. I could not get out the back door because it was totally blocked by the bed. I had to climb over the end of the bed much to the chagrin of a sleepy daughter.
We had toyed with the idea of flipping the layout on the furniture and finally did it last week. The only downside is the couch is where the dining room set was and so it is now a lot closer to the television. No biggy.
Now, when the sofa is opened to a sleeper, there is ample room to pass by even for me.
We can toss the CRT type TV (27") for a much lighter LCD flat screen and set it on the multi-media desk top which is lower and easier to view from the close end of the sofa to resolve the TV viewing "problem"
We had just purchased our 2006 30WBLE and got it home to find that the sofa-bed when opened up actually knocked against the kitchen cabinet return on the opposite side.
Since we are empty nesters, we were not buying our trailer with children in mind (for the first time ever) we kinda dismissed it even though I thought FR had done some poor planning.
Well, it seems our kids wanted to follow us anyway when we went out on a few trips and one or two on occasion slept indoors on that sofa. The problem is we sleep on different time schedules, so when I arose in the early a.m. I could not get out the back door because it was totally blocked by the bed. I had to climb over the end of the bed much to the chagrin of a sleepy daughter.
We had toyed with the idea of flipping the layout on the furniture and finally did it last week. The only downside is the couch is where the dining room set was and so it is now a lot closer to the television. No biggy.
Now, when the sofa is opened to a sleeper, there is ample room to pass by even for me.
We can toss the CRT type TV (27") for a much lighter LCD flat screen and set it on the multi-media desk top which is lower and easier to view from the close end of the sofa to resolve the TV viewing "problem"