BreweryDave
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In my Burstner 747 the layout includes a double dinette. Hate it!
I am in the process of converting this to an 'L' shaped layout by removing the forward facing half of the dinette, and placing the seat along the side of the van, facing the opposite sofa, and adjoining the rearward facing dinette.
(The table was removed a while back - way too big! ...if anyone wants one - PM me!)
Now - I know I'll be losing 2 seatbelted seats, and forever altering the layout, but thats not important to us as there's only 2 of us (in what is alleged to be a 7 berth!!!) and as we are FT it's for what we want.
I'll be cutting half the substantial chassis mounted framework out (...or rather, a man who knows what he's doing with a special cutting thing will!) this weekend and leaving the rest in place to support the sofa top which will be along the wall.
I will then have a square about 30" square of no floor, (where the outer half of the dinette was) which I intend to infill with some heavy ply, and then have a carpet laid over the whole lot.
Will then get to Regal Furnishings (or similar) at some point to have the cushions altered to fit perfectly as one large L shape:thumb:
When I'm done (fingers crossed before we leave for Chester!) I'll post some photo's of the before and after - just wondered if anyone else has ever done anything similar, and any 'issues' you encountered?
I am in the process of converting this to an 'L' shaped layout by removing the forward facing half of the dinette, and placing the seat along the side of the van, facing the opposite sofa, and adjoining the rearward facing dinette.
(The table was removed a while back - way too big! ...if anyone wants one - PM me!)
Now - I know I'll be losing 2 seatbelted seats, and forever altering the layout, but thats not important to us as there's only 2 of us (in what is alleged to be a 7 berth!!!) and as we are FT it's for what we want.
I'll be cutting half the substantial chassis mounted framework out (...or rather, a man who knows what he's doing with a special cutting thing will!) this weekend and leaving the rest in place to support the sofa top which will be along the wall.
I will then have a square about 30" square of no floor, (where the outer half of the dinette was) which I intend to infill with some heavy ply, and then have a carpet laid over the whole lot.
Will then get to Regal Furnishings (or similar) at some point to have the cushions altered to fit perfectly as one large L shape:thumb:
When I'm done (fingers crossed before we leave for Chester!) I'll post some photo's of the before and after - just wondered if anyone else has ever done anything similar, and any 'issues' you encountered?