Hello everyone,
I started my walk-around bed modification/conversion project back in December 2023.
As I mentioned before in previous post, I got tired of rolling/climbing/jumping over my wife to get out of bed, so I modified the Jack knife Sofa/Sleeper that came from factory. The wife wanted to keep the usability of the couches to sit down on, so I made some mods that lets me convert it from sofa seating area to our main bed.
I believe 28ft and larger HiLo models came with full time walk-around beds as an option and are installed Front to Rear; but with this Old Gal being only a 25ft'r And the bed is installed Left to Right, I had to rack my brain on how to do this.
I cut the night stand cabinet in half and repositioned the bed between them- one on each side. That allowed me to move the bed away from the front wall gaining some access to walk around bed. I also cut and shortened the slider/support rod for the right side couch; that rod is what allows the couch to slide left to right, (it was originally bolted to the wall). I used a pipe elbow and a pipe floor flange to bolt it the floor. Mattress gets stowed away up in bunk bed area when in couch seating position.
Anyway I finished the project and it's working out really well (wife sleeps undisturbed when I have to get out of bed in the middle of the night)…lots of brownie points earned!! LOL.
Here are are some pictures...sorry I don't know why pics are sideways.
