Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

We all have one things for the most part in common. We hit our head on the rear if we bend forward unlike those with a teardrop.

What did you do with your galley.

I have come up with several crazy ideas ... a pull out swing to each side Galley, a Round Kitchen ( go to google images enter round Kitchen). Pull out, cooking on shelf on swing out door, attaching a swing out kitchen on the truck tailgate.
Many tenters have those kitchen Racks that you place to the side for food prep and Dish cleaning.

I did see one kitchen once half the trailer opened lingth wize exposing a prep area and a large sink the other half was storage for the tent and other grear. they did not sleep in it.

So what did you do and do you have pix's you can share.

Ron D. Boxkite

I dont know that I can help you but you may get some ideas here.
http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q120 ... 20Gallery/

Ron
This is about as square as you can get. No galley = no hit head

My kitchen, a small camping table.

The short-lived R-Vision Cassette is a square-backed but otherwise teardrop trailer - the roof is high enough that the galley door is a hatch which swings upward (hinge along the top edge) and forms a roof over the area behind the trailer.

For a trailer which is not that tall, a rear hatch could be cut forward into the trailer body, so that the hinge line is forward of the rear edge of the roof. When the hatch is swung up 90 degrees, the hatch is higher than it would normally be, and can act like the Cassette's roof.

I've been kicking around the idea of a squareback, and I'm thinking that two doors that open to the sides would be ideal. I would make them open out to about 45-degrees from the back, and mount small shelves and racks on them. That way, when open, you have perhaps your canned goods, spices and such on one door, and could hang some pots and pans on the other.You could even do a fold-down table on one door for a stove, or cutting-board.

The possibilities are endless. You can't hit your head on these doors. And, you end up with two "walls" in your galley to hang stuff on.

CD

brian_bp wrote:For a trailer which is not that tall, a rear hatch could be cut forward into the trailer body...

Andrew

Like most suggestions I just cut the rear on an angle (or rather will as I haven't got that far yet) The sketchup image shows what I mean. Mine is quite tall though so not so much of an issue.



Cheers
Steve

caseydog wrote:I've been kicking around the idea of a squareback, and I'm thinking that two doors that open to the sides would be ideal. I would make them open out to about 45-degrees from the back, and mount small shelves and racks on them. That way, when open, you have perhaps your canned goods, spices and such on one door, and could hang some pots and pans on the other.You could even do a fold-down table on one door for a stove, or cutting-board.

The possibilities are endless. You can't hit your head on these doors. And, you end up with two "walls" in your galley to hang stuff on.

CD

CD...kind of like this?
(this is the Sunspot, right after I brought it home--I've already taken off most of the 'racks' it came with.) I sealed all of the little holes from the previous owners, and picked up a folding nylon shelf unit that hangs over the left side door. It has three shelves, each about 4 inches deep.

This winter, one modification I'd like to make is to change out the supports so that the doors open a bit wider than they do right now. There's an awning rail to provide cover for the top (no awning for it yet, another winter mod), but for right now, I use a tripod shelter over the back half of the trailer and covers my 'kitchen.' I also have a Kelty carport, which arcs over the doors and provides cover just over the open doors, but the tripod give me more covered kitchen space. I don't have any galley cupboards yet; for now, I store food and galley equipment in a nylon folding SUV cargo carrier while moving, then unpack it to camp. Haven't decided quite which way to go with shelves yet.

Square backs have a tremendous space advantage and you don't have that hatch thing to worry about, if you use regular doors...removable shelves give you all the space you need.. Here's a drawing of one we're working on ...

angib wrote:

brian_bp wrote:For a trailer which is not that tall, a rear hatch could be cut forward into the trailer body...

Andrew

Exactly - thanks for the illustration.

The Cassette is more of a plain box than Steve's design, but has essentially the same hatch and galley layout.

Both of my trailers are high enought for me to walk under the raised back hatch without bumping my head except the one with the rear door entry when I step up to get in I duck.


Pat

Hmm, maybe you could use a swing out type kitchen on the bottom portion


Then double side doors or a door that swings up out of the way on the top portion.

Might be easier to carry all the cooking gear in a box and have a small table for outside , our sink a multi-use Bucket, and an ice chest ... that's what we're going to do with the Airliner...KISS principle

Gaelen wrote:CD...kind of like this?

Yeah, something like that.