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Seems to me, cboisseau, if you want to use a trailer as an office and you remove the beds, you will have to sleep where the dinette is by converting to a bed every night. That's a pain. The table is anotgher desk plus a place to eat. A journalist always has lots of papers and needs lots of horizontal spaces. I suppose you can fit a desk into one (former) bed space, or remove one twin and keep the other. You also need a place for a printer, files, etc. If you add a lot of weight to one side—offices mean paper and paper is heavy plus computer, office furniture—be sure to balance the weight. Maybe files need to go under the bed, though the wheels may be there. Keep the heaviest things down low.
Resale: anytime you change something from a design that is commonly wanted to something less common, you hurt resale. But if you want to use for something most efficient to your needs, that seems more important if you plan to keep it for some period of time more than a few years. Save the old stuff and make the changes in a way they can be easily removed and the trailer restored to its original floor plan.
Sin: a moral question. People change their Airstreams constantly to make them their own. Do they make them better or worse? Mostly better, but we saw a few year old trailer that was trashed out last year—different standards. The exterior is more the icon and is more public. The company changes them too, not always in good ways. Try to follow the basic design in your modifications, though an aluminum desk is probably a bad idea (stainless steel might look good).
Gene
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