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Diy camper couch bed.
Build your own diy sofa bed.
We spent over two years living in a diy camper van and visiting 48 us states.
It turns out ian is a handy fellow and came up with this rv sofa bed design which is quite unique.
The couch bed is a common solution for van lifers.
The bottom of the sofa seat pulls out using a slats system so the sofa cushions can then be reorganized for a bed surface.
Good solution for this problem is to make the sofa stretch from one end of the rv to another and completely remove the sofa arms laying out the bed flat and covering the mattress with an upholstery fabric and several pillows to ensure a high comfort level.
We hope this site can help you plan.
Then we looked at our project list our time and our sofa building skills and ultimately decided to simplify our sofa design and focus on what we really needed.
We build a slatted sofa bed for our van conversion.
There are a number of different ways a couch bed can be built.
This wood sofa bed takes up very little space yet can be pulled out to make a bed big enough for two people to sleep comfortably.
In the beginning we considered making a sofa complete with a pull out bed storage pop up footrests and folding side tables.
The homemade truck camper project shares all the details.
The sofa in the rv was a little lower than we wanted so we ended up measuring the height of the sofa in our house to get that perfect level.
I m sure some would worry about the weight of so much wood in an rv but this rv s owners said the type of wood they used to make the multi colored planks is actually fairly light weight and they were mindful of.
The bottom of the sofa is built using a slat system with cushions and upholstery as the primary contributors for comfort.
The sofa bed design.
If you re the handy type or willing to learn one way to cheaply add new furniture to your rv is to build it yourself which is what the owners of these next rvs did.
The sofa bed has a multi purpose design in which in which the original bed can be re organized and deployed into a sofa for sitting.
Diy rv sofa bed designed by ian and mad mumsie photos.
This is an explanation on how we did it.
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When measuring the sofa height in our house we measured it with the cushions still on that way we could decide on cushion thickness and height of the frame together.
Small diy sofa with storage for our rv.
Along the way we ve met with other van lifers checked out their rigs and learned a lot about adventure travel.
Beautiful diy rv couch ideas.
