Deciding Where Everything Goes

[Guest]

I'm attempting to figure out where everything is going to located inside the cabin. Since the trailer is going to be a pop-up, my first order of business is to figure out the table /seating and bed configuration. I've come up with an idea of splitting the mattress into four sections. Click Here to see what I'm talking about.
I would like to know if anyone has tried this and if it works out OK.
(For some reason, I'm not too giglish about sleeping on a split mattress)

[mexican tear]

Dean
Every time I have tried to sleap on a split matress, I fall down in the crack. I think if you use some "Velcro" and a little thought, you can keep it together. You could make a "sack" to put the parts in when you sleap to try and keep the parts together. Try and keep the splits perpendicular to your body.
Good luck
kai

[beverlyt]

Hi Dean!
We were planning on doing the same thing with a table and 4 cushions in our teardrop. That is, until we put the footwell off center from the doors..or... we could have had enough room to sit on one side...that is until we put in the overhead cabinets... ahhh well

Anyway, though our mattress is all one piece, I've heard that as long as you make them a tight fit, you don't even know that you are sleeping on a divided mattress. Mike would know more about it... he has such a setup in his tear.

Bev

[campadk]

Anyway, though our mattress is all one piece, I've heard that as long as you make them a tight fit, you don't even know that you are sleeping on a divided mattress. Mike would know more about it... he has such a setup in his tear.

Bev

Bev we have a split mattress in our Hunter. They butt up nicely and we never notice the joint at all.

[Guest]

Hi Dean!
We were planning on doing the same thing with a table and 4 cushions in our teardrop. That is, until we put the footwell off center from the doors..or... we could have had enough room to sit on one side...that is until we put in the overhead cabinets...

Bev,
I know exactly what you mean! Everytime I get a new idea, I get all jazzed up... until I see how it affects something else within close proximity.

When I get evertything to my liking, on paper, I'm going to build a model of it first... just to be sure.

Thanks Everyone,
For letting me know that everything will be allright, as long as the joints in the mattress are tight. I will probably gang them together in pairs, then join both pairs together with Velcro.

[dmb90260]

Mine (queen sized) is split so it can be folded to make a couple seats when I am not sleeping. The two pieces are big enough to fill the entire floor so I never fall into the crack. I have slept on one side comfortably and the other piece (in seat formation) still keeps it from moving around. :sleepy2:

[catrinka]

Dean, when we are camping in the tent we use 2 single air mattresses to make a king size bed. We found that using a king size fitted sheet held the 2 mattresses together so that one of us didn't end up between the two air mattresses. Something as simple as a fitted sheet could hold all of your pieces together.

[catrinka]

Dean, when we are camping in the tent we use 2 single air mattresses to make a king size bed. We found that using a king size fitted sheet held the 2 mattresses together so that one of us didn't end up between the two air mattresses. Something as simple as a fitted sheet could hold all of your pieces together.

[Laredo]

whoa, that brings back memories, Cathy! In my young, foolish Air Force days we'd celebrate when we finally got a dorm room to ourselves and put both the bunks down side by side and turn the mattresses so that the split between the mattresses ran at a 90 degree angle to the split between the frames. King-size bed. Later on, I learnt to do two things with air mattresses: don't blow them all the way up. Lash 'em together with a utility strap or a sheet with garters on the corners and then unroll a king-size eggcrate pad over them, then garter a sheet over the top of it all. Comfy as one of those memory-foam beds, way cheaper (and you can too camp on it, altho it's a little bulky for backpacking).

[R Keller]

Dean,

I have four 58"x20" foam cushions in my trailer for a total bed size of 58"x80". It's very comfortable and I don't notice the seams at all. As long as you have structure at both ends and the cushions are properly sized, you won't need to velcro them together. Just jam them in place against each other and they're not going anywhere.

Rik