by 48Rob » Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:29 am
Drop floors are better suited to standies, where you are trying to gain a few more inches for headroom.
The general idea behind a tear is "stand up outside, and lay down inside" as soon as you start trying to change that, designs and practicality clash.
It can be done, and has, but as Doug pointed out, it isn't very practical.
I went for middle ground with the cabin car design; standing outside, laying down inside, but also enlarging the cabin to provide a small floor area not under the bed.
This area I dropped the floor in to allow stooping.
The dropped floor idea in a typical tear is much like having a travel trailer with a couch, that makes into a bed.
Both are nice, but over time most owners just leave the bed made and don't use the couch function as it is too much hassle to make the bed when you are tired, and then unmaking it and storing all the blankets, sheets, and pillows for the rest of the day.
The most practical use of a dropped floor, or use of the underfloor area, is pull out shelves, accessed from outside.
They can give you a huge amount of storage that is easy to see and get to.
Rob
Waiting for "someday" will leave you on your deathbed wondering why you didn't just rearrange your priorities and enjoy the time you had, instead of waiting for a "better" time to come along...