Re: [SilverStreak] Couch?

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We pulled the front loveseat from ours (1983 3411 Supreme:: see brochure for
pics) and the endtables. Installed an Italian leather couch temporarily.
Be SURE to measure replacement furniture that will go through that 27" [?]
doorframe. Our trailer has no dinette, only the two fold-out tables in
dining area and in living area, so we have an enormous open space from the
bedrooms forward (refrigerator is just ahead of the starboard twin bed). (And
trailer is tail-heavy on the rear axle with this arrangement).

We'll eventually get a fold-out bed, but have not yet decided where to place
it. I would also like to build a dinette with space underneath for an LPG
generator on a slide-out rack.

Ours is in covered storage for now, we have a lot to do in having just bought
a home in Corpus Christi and with new jobs.

Have seen a 19-21' SS in a front yard (not for sale) that is sadly
deteriorating.

Ross

-----Original Message-----
From: Eddie <EddieHuffstetter@hotmail.com>
To: sslist@tompatterson.com
Sent: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 8:36 pm
Subject: Re: [SilverStreak] Couch?

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