Re: [SilverStreak] Couch?

["A Stroh" <angstroh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eddie,

The 1980 SS 32ft we own is equiped with a wood futon with extra thick cushion.   
I am 6.3  and  needed  some  room to stretch out on and  the futon  works great.  
It is also easy  to fit through  the doorway. Fold it down and it is the width 
of a double bed. It uses a double/size Serta Mattress with a slip cover. Our 
couch and side tables had been removed when the purchased our trailer.   We love 
our SS.

Jeff & Angie
Texas Hill Country 

Eddie <EddieHuffstetter@hotmail.com> wrote: Chris,
Thank you. Ken Wilson says what you describe is called a Jack Knife. A 
Hide-A-Bed lifts up and unfolds out, that would be the one with the bar, and 
that a Gaucho is the one with a platform that slides or pulls out and then 
the sitting and back cushions are placed as a mattress.

So the one I want is going to be a Jack Knife like you describe, where you 
lift up the sitting area until it clicks or just allows the metal hinge 
attached back to follow out and lay down, the whole thing then forming a 
mattress. My daughter (when she was little) always wanted a futon. Obviously 
I am either not "With It", don't get out much, or "whatever" she would say, 
because Futon sounds awfully Japanese to me, however I think I saw one which 
was a tubular framed chunky looking thing that lifted, back-flopped and then 
a one-piece cushion bottom and back laid flat. Was that a futon? Geez, the 
radio is a 8 track and that's about when I last got to a furniture store. 
What do I know?

The space between the rounded corner fixed furniture cabinets is 56" wide. 
The cabinets are 30" deep. There is about 84+/- inches of pallor depth to 
the door opening. So I don't know what I want there, except just maybe a 
couch. I cannot see any type of couch bed that would fit the space, yet pull 
out for sleeping. I am 6' and can't see anything unfolding out far enough to 
sleep and 56" is out of the question as a flop out unless your under 5' 
tall. So maybe just some sort of nice couch. Are couches made about 56" 
wide? I think the problem is that few SS were center bath rear bedroom so 
maybe the pallor built in side table cabinets were uncommon. I just hate to 
remove the pair of nice cabinet tables. I am single, there are two twins in 
the rear bedroom, I'm scared of hitchhikers so why do I need another bed? I 
just want a nice useable parlor.

I really liked Ken's Rocket. His used a 86" couch wall to wall hide a bed 
that he removed. He then uses two nice chairs in each of the front parlor 
corners, and perfect size cane or wicker short table between, and a matching 
chair near the door and by the table side of the kitchen. I looks very cozy 
and usable.

With out the two fixed cabinets in the corner, I could do the same, or use 
the small couch between the cabinets, and two chairs. The SLL (Supreme 
Luxury Liner) is 32', a little larger than the Rocket, and thus the parlor 
is quite spacious with the extra 2'.

I would be interested in anyone thoughts, especially if they also have the 
built in pallor corner table cabinets. I cannot remember what Carolyn's two 
SS were and what they had. Ken's Rocket is just gorgeous like out of a show 
room.

Thank you.

-Eddie-
Houston, TX