Shasta Compact- Alt layout idea (don't cancel my membership)

It is more of the old style canned ham. Which may be tight. I wonder is if the dinette to the side would open it up a little?



Would you say this is birch? Looks like oak or Ash.

This is exactly what my son and his wife did in their 62 compact. I will post some pics. They are just finishing it up and don't have the cushions in yet. They are going to have the bench pull out and use a queen blow up mattress on it for sleeping. The dinette is small but fits them. I think it would be tight for me and my husband since we have "middle age spread". They also sized down the kitchen area, it didn't have a stove anyway. This gives a little more room for when they take a dog or 2 with them.

Yes, the purists will not be happy with their changes, one of the reasons I haven't posted the pics. Also because we are "birch painters" which seems to really set people off. My feeling is that whatever makes a person happy is fine, after all it's just a trailer. I think changing the layout, and painting birch, will negatively affect the resale value, but again, it's a personal choice.

We are racing to get both trailers ready for the Hiawassee rally, so I'll post pics as soon as I can.

nccamper: I will try to get a few pics up today so you can get an idea. Came up with a good way to mount the table without a table leg in the way.

<sigh> I guess you gotta' do what works for you. I do find it sad to alter a vintage trailer that is in such good condition. If I came across one that was trashed on the inside or had to be put back together, I wouldn't feel so bad about a remodel job, including paint in fun colors. Poor, poor baby. Gonna' cut up her insides.

You two have his and her trailers? 

Someone out there did a remodel of an early Compact with a full-time bed that might make more sense for you, if you are bent on making the change. They took out the kitchen, put a mini-dinette across the front, more like an Airflyte setup. Shrunk the kitchen and put it and the storage along both sides. They did a full (double) bed across the back. 48" is pretty tight for two adults. A full size is another 6" wide, and that 6" makes a big difference. We can understand the desire for a full-time bed, and also for a full-time place to sit and eat. One of the few real downsides of the Compact is that it's difficult to have both in 10 feet of space. We have our bed set up and break down to about 3 minutes (depends on whether I get in his way or not), but that's not for everyone. Sometimes when we know we're going to have a long travel day and won't be in camp in time to cook dinner, we will just leave the bed up for the day, and do a picnic outside the trailer.

If you're looking at selling it down the line, the reconfiguration could either be a bane or a boon. There are a fair number of folks out there who neither know, nor care, what the trailer originally looked like. They just want something "cute." But there are others (and we confess, we are among the group) that would like to see the earlier, ham-style, ones kept as original as possible, allowing for (gasp) flat screen TVs (not us) or closet-to-wet bath conversions (us) and the reconfiguration of storage space.

Good luck, whatever you decide. And to all of you who dare to be different, post YOUR pictures as well. They might help the traditionalists among us loosen up a bit!