The Silver Streak E-mail ListArchive Files[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [SilverStreak] Couch?
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
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