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Originally Posted by rseagle Hi Paula,
With the oval shape of your new mattress, how do you hide the ugly plywood underneath?
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I have six pillows. Two go over the inside curves which are pretty well hidden by the wardrobe and nightstand anyway. I suppose I could have had two pieces of foam custom cut to fit there, but why bother?
I also got a wild hair that I could hinge the plywood under the bed since it is in two pieces. I thought it would be easier to lift the lid than to crawl UNDER the bed and move 3 or 4 containers to find what I wanted. Used a six foot piano hinge - used 5 heavy screws on the far side to hold the smaller curved piece of plywood to the frame, then used the small screws on the rest of the hinge. Thank god for electric screw drivers! Worked great without the mattress, when I was sleeping on the featherbed. Now it's really heavy to lift by hand... Either have to drill some holes and use a dowel rod to hold it up, get some really heavy duty pneumatic lift cylinders or at least get a dowel rod or two to hold it up once I lift it.
I might also be able to use a standard table leg to hold the lid up when I'm accessing storage; which leads to my idea for the dinette. I'm thinking of reconfiguring it. Turning the back seat 90 degrees and setting it over the wheel well. Making a cushion or wood cover for the fuse panel - to make it into an end table or hassock, and building an entirely new longer narrower table that is moveable and adjustable height. I'd use an ironing bed type of crossover legs to adjust the height.
I don't have too much company, but it will all have to fit together to make a bed just in case I need it. Alternatively, I'm going to try to move the dinette forward three inches - I just hate the fact that the bathroom door bangs into the dinette seat and that getting into and out of the desk area is such a tight squeeze. I use my desk almost nightly and it just bugs me that it's just a tad too confined.
(I guess in a way I wish they'd made the 22ft CCD a 23 footer - a tad wider bed, a couple more inches here and there.)
Tin Lizzie