truckmen
Active Member
Hello all,
For the last several days, we've been busily preparing for the "BIG Trip" across country (Maine to West Coast to Florida) beginning September 11 and part of that preparation is to doing some modifications to our BC. So I thought I'd share some of the work we are doing to make our 5er more to our liking. I think that these ideas may help others with their plans too.
This particular modification entails removing one of the 2 tri-fold sofa beds and in its place installing a computer desk with two filing cabinets. I built the desk from 3/4" finished ply sanded, stained and varnished in Early American stain to match the existing woodwork in the BC. It is fitted into - and fills - the slide with 77" wide, 28" deep panel.
The two filing cabinets are from Staples and are $40 cheapies (for now). I have cut them down to fit under a 28" high desk. The desk comes up just under the bottom lip of the larger middle window.
For aesthetics and some function, we are also adding decorative table legs. Six are going in with four positioned on each side of the filing cabinets while 2 more are towrd the rear where they are still partially visible. In the far corners, where there will be no visibility, I am going to just install some 2x2s for support.
While we were at it, we upgraded to a slighter deeper-pile and lighter shade carpet for the entire lounge to match the carpeting we installed under the new desk. We had to since we are concealing the wiring now exposed by the removed sofa.
Since we replaced the carpet, we also went with a new carpet under-layment that we fell is a bit better quality.
Included here are some random photos of our mod. I will post some more details of our work and materials as time permits.
For the last several days, we've been busily preparing for the "BIG Trip" across country (Maine to West Coast to Florida) beginning September 11 and part of that preparation is to doing some modifications to our BC. So I thought I'd share some of the work we are doing to make our 5er more to our liking. I think that these ideas may help others with their plans too.
This particular modification entails removing one of the 2 tri-fold sofa beds and in its place installing a computer desk with two filing cabinets. I built the desk from 3/4" finished ply sanded, stained and varnished in Early American stain to match the existing woodwork in the BC. It is fitted into - and fills - the slide with 77" wide, 28" deep panel.
The two filing cabinets are from Staples and are $40 cheapies (for now). I have cut them down to fit under a 28" high desk. The desk comes up just under the bottom lip of the larger middle window.
For aesthetics and some function, we are also adding decorative table legs. Six are going in with four positioned on each side of the filing cabinets while 2 more are towrd the rear where they are still partially visible. In the far corners, where there will be no visibility, I am going to just install some 2x2s for support.
While we were at it, we upgraded to a slighter deeper-pile and lighter shade carpet for the entire lounge to match the carpeting we installed under the new desk. We had to since we are concealing the wiring now exposed by the removed sofa.
Since we replaced the carpet, we also went with a new carpet under-layment that we fell is a bit better quality.
Included here are some random photos of our mod. I will post some more details of our work and materials as time permits.
