M2304 Replacing murphy bed with fixed bed?

[mdking09]

We have a 2015 M2304 with a murphy bed over a couch. The murphy bed is falling apart and the piano hinge has ripped out the of the frame, the frame has evidently been (badly) repaired in the past and is not salvageable either. We also kinda hate the murphy bed and would rather have a fixed bed and remove the couch.

So

We are thinking of ripping out the couch and the murphy bed, and installing a sideways queen sized bed that is fixed in place instead. It will fit in the area of the red square in the attached photo. I can't really find any examples of people doing this, so I wanted to double check and see if anyone thinks this is a terrible idea.

We would also punch the external storage all the way through, and have underbed storage inside.

 

[TitanMike]

We have a 2015 M2304 with a murphy bed over a couch. The murphy bed is falling apart and the piano hinge has ripped out the of the frame, the frame has evidently been (badly) repaired in the past and is not salvageable either. We also kinda hate the murphy bed and would rather have a fixed bed and remove the couch.

So

We are thinking of ripping out the couch and the murphy bed, and installing a sideways queen sized bed that is fixed in place instead. It will fit in the area of the red square in the attached photo. I can't really find any examples of people doing this, so I wanted to double check and see if anyone thinks this is a terrible idea.

We would also punch the external storage all the way through, and have underbed storage inside.

You certainly could do this.

I used to have a 28' TT with a queen size bed just like your suggestion. Was a real pain making the bed and anyone sleeping on the "inside" has to put up with a wall.

Also, makes a midnight trip to the bathroom difficult. Both parties will suffer. One by being waken and the other for waking their partner.

 

[mdking09]

Thanks for the feedback!

We considered that as well. We have two young kids so waking up in the middle of the night is considered normal around these parts haha, so we decided that wasn't something we were too worried about. To make the bed we might design it so the mattress has a little room to slide out from the wall to make it a bit easier

 

[trailerdude]

We had a Lance 1575 with the sideways queen. The main reason we sold it was because I hated climbing over the wife in the middle of the night, the one on the inside feels a bit trapped.
Why don't you want it straight, does it get in the way?

 

[mdking09]

We had a Lance 1575 with the sideways queen. The main reason we sold it was because I hated climbing over the wife in the middle of the night, the one on the inside feels a bit trapped.
Why don't you want it straight, does it get in the way?

Yeah it blocks about half the door and makes it so there's no room inside for two people to even pass by when the murphy bed is down. I think turning it sideways will free up a ton of room, save having to put the bed up and down every day, and get rid of the shoddy Murphy bed mechanism.

My wife will get the inside so I'm not as worried about it haha

 

[MGD1961]

We have had the bed in a corner arrangement before. We hated it.

When we picked out a new trailer a walk around bed was the first requirement or we wouldn’t even consider it.

Just our opinion

 

[GolfingDave]

What I do not understand is won't the side consoles have to be removed/altered?

Wardrobe closet now above your head?

Easy to now say crawling over a spouse is no big deal until you have to do it nightly.

I would just stay with a camp queen if your height is not a factor. Is that the reason for a queen?

 

[RobbieH]

We had a Lance 1575 with the sideways queen. The main reason we sold it was because I hated climbing over the wife in the middle of the night, the one on the inside feels a bit trapped.
Why don't you want it straight, does it get in the way?

My mom's Class C has a sideways queen, and to get to it you go through a little slot between the outside wall and the bathroom wall. There's no way I could live in something like that where one of us is constantly trapped at the back, requiring whoever is back there to crawl across the other in the night if necessary. She's on her own so it doesn't matter to her.