Thank you for the video: Your husband looks handy to have around & its brilliant that hes teaching your sons. I Really,really like what hes done to the master bedroom, the lights are great.. Top marks
Love how you did the floors! This is amazing. Want to get a toy hauler some day and want to convert the space into an office and storage. Love what you did with this!
I've been contemplating moving into some sort of wheeled living space for awhile, but I'm a DJ with a fair amount of equipment and so I was wracking my brain about how to build out a box truck or modify an RV. But then I thought about toyhaulers and watching your video sold me on the idea. The garage would become my studio/office area and I'd live in the rest. Basically you did a lot of what I'd want (except the bed would be storage) so thank you.
We had those same Ikea drawers and moved them int the rv when we went fulltime. They are SOO heavy though so we ended up selling them and just added storage under the couch instead. I love the idea of you making that shower space your clothing space/closet space... which still keeping it a toilet area. I'd have added doors though... Toilets cause a lot of SPLASH when flushed. lol Hope the lid is always down!
We have a small toy hauler where the garage is basically the whole camper with a bathroom and bedroom and I've been wanting to make it into a beautiful living room for rainy day camping and now I know I can! Your room turned out so Beautiful!!
@@McVeyMcFarm yeah! Thanks! We've been going back and forth for 2 years on whether we want to for resale purposes but at this point we've decided to make it work for us and hope the right people find it when we're ready to sell because it makes MUCH more sense.
RV manufacturers need to take note! I’m looking for a Toy Hauler to do something similar (though, I’m looking for something that has a shower… rare in toy haulers I’m finding). A wise manufacturer would build a Master/flex space floor plan because there’s a significant enough market for people who don’t use these as traditional “toy haulers.” Nice work!! Turned out great!
@ I was very close to purchasing the 3970. Absolutely love it, but couldn’t make the financing work. Will give it another look down the road. Seems like an amazing floor plan!
Great video and awesome job on transforming that garage into a master suite! We just ordered a new toy hauler (Brinkley 3500) and looking for different ideas on how to utiize the additional space other than an office! Just subscribed so keep the awesome videos coming!
I'd like to accomplish a hybrid between how the Happijac works OOTB, what you did and what I've seen on another channel. 1. Use the lower Happijac bracket for a desks on either side. 2. Be able to "grab" the top from a greater distance so you can leave monitors on the desk when you bring the top bunk down. 3. Bring the whole thing to the floor. The idea is to have a full height dual office in the day, and a quick conversion to bedroom every night. From your experience, do you think a spacer between the two Happijac levels that allows the bottom engaging with the top to bring it down is feasible? Is there enough travel for the lower to go right to the floor with the upper say 3' above it?
Very Nice! So creative and inspiring. We RV'ed almost a year in 2021. It was a steep learning curve but we learned a lot. I would like to do it again but when I'm not working so much. The one thing I missed the most when on the road was adequate freezer space. I'd like to figure out a solution for that in our next RV.
Love this remodel!! I want a toy hauler to have garage space but I worried about small children and them wondering out the back. Making it the master is brilliant!! I believe I just saw this on Facebook for sale yesterday?
Hey I love your build! I was very inspired with your frame and applied the same to my toy hauler! So thankful for this video! I was wondering how exactly you got electrical to your bed to work with the happy jack?
This is awesome! A few questions tho: 1. How do you secure the furniture under the bed for travel days? 2. Is the bed limited on how far down it goes? Thanks, cant wait to check out your other vids!
Hi Randy, the desk and dresser are bolted to the floor and walls. We also use bungee cords to secure the drawers. The bed can come down all the way, but obviously we have to stop it before it hits the computer monitor. But if there was nothing underneath it, we’d be able to bring it all the way down. You can see how we custom made the bed, and how we changed it so that it could go all the way up and down in this video: ua-cam.com/video/e7RuHhjfwGg/v-deo.html
When you said you ran a channel up the Happy Jack System using zip ties to get power to the lights and top of the bed- What does that mean?? I'm trying to figure out how the bed going up and down doesn't cause a problem with an extension cord or is there a different way?
This took me a good day or two to figure out. I tried several approaches and finally settled on the following (which also happened to be the easiest/simplest). 1) Pin (zip tie) the one end of the extension cord where the frame meets the bed corner. I zip tied ours to the wood bed frame corner. 2) Make 2 or 3 loops vertically along the backside (garage ramp door). These zip ties I left quite loose. Think 1”-1.5” diameter so the cord could freely move up and down. Your goal isn’t to keep the cord tight like a normal zip tie. It’s more so just trying to keep the cord hidden behind the happijac rail. 3). Because the cord has weight, when the bed is lowered, the cord will naturally fall to the ground (through the loose zip ties) and kind of just lay flat in the floor. Our desk hid that on one side and dresser hid it in the other. Hope that helps better answer it. The cord is visible in the backside of the rail but almost entirely invisible from the front.
Good looking build. Now being a year later, how well is the bed holding up? I noticed a decent amount of deflection on the 2x4's. Personally, I would have figured out a way to use 2x6's if they didnt fit.
Love the leveling of the floor in the back. Going to be doing the same myself. What size screws did you use for the brackets to the floor and to the wedges. Self tapping I assume? Do you have a video just on that part?
The floor is relatively thick (at least in our GD). You can get a good idea on thickness by pulling one of the d-rings in the floor. Going through the wood triangles, we probably ran 2” screws and going through the brackets only we probably topped out size wise at 1”-1/4” screws. We were able to reuse quite a few square head screws from the RV itself. Good luck!
It’s actually been 3 years since we did this renovation, and we never had any issues in the year and a half that we owned it. The new owners are still using it a year and a half after we sold it to them, and they haven’t had any problems with it either. They’re traveling in it full time just like we did, and it’s holding up just fine. 😊
I don’t know if this is the exact one we used, but it’s very similar: www.homedepot.com/p/Comfortboost-100-sq-ft-3-5-ft-x-28-57-ft-x-0-08-in-Foam-Underlayment-for-Laminate-Hardwood-and-Engineered-Flooring-CB100/308494358
2 of the ceiling vents weren’t covered by the bed, and the bed was still about 2 feet from the ceiling for the others. So we had plenty of air during the day.
How do yall keep the desk and chair in the garage area from sliding around on move days? Im thinking about making an office in mine and would love tips :)
Great question! We used small "L" brackets attached to the floor and wall for the desk. We then used those same "L" brackets to attach the desk top to the (2) Ikea drawers. As for the chair, we ordered wheels that had brakes on them, and simply used a bungee cord to keep it held tight to the test. D-Rings (easily found on Amazon, Harbor Freight, etc....) are what we used all over the rig to attach bungee cords to things.
looks amazing! what color greyish/green did you use and the brand? Thank you! Great Job! especially love the bathroom, shiplap, and bike holder"s are awesome!
Hmm, I’m not sure. Like if they were broken? I suppose you could call Lippert or Grand Design for a replacement. I’ve seen other people install French doors back there.
Bro at like 5:10, you can see this guys real character…. The whole video has this weird vibe that they aren’t happy…. Look at his face when HE incorrectly pushed a board through a table saw and she is expected to make sure it doesn’t get messed up… Just sayin… little things like that in social media can show you all that their life is only what they want you to see…
No idea how this video doesn't have more likes. Such a beautiful build, with incredibly clear and concise explanations of everything. Very well done!
That’s so nice of you to say! Thank you so much!
It’s awesome that you took are teaching your boys valuable skills while completing projects! Awesome job! 👍🏾
Thank you! Yes! It’s important to teach kids various life skills, even if it makes you go slower in the process.
Very nice. Needs sheers and curtains make the windows look beautiful 😍
Yes, we added curtains in the living room, but didn’t add them back here.
Thank you for the video:
Your husband looks handy to have around & its brilliant that hes teaching your sons.
I Really,really like what hes done to the master bedroom, the lights are great..
Top marks
Thanks so much! He definitely is very handy! I have yet to find something he can’t figure out.
Love how you did the floors! This is amazing. Want to get a toy hauler some day and want to convert the space into an office and storage. Love what you did with this!
Thank you so much!
I've been contemplating moving into some sort of wheeled living space for awhile, but I'm a DJ with a fair amount of equipment and so I was wracking my brain about how to build out a box truck or modify an RV. But then I thought about toyhaulers and watching your video sold me on the idea.
The garage would become my studio/office area and I'd live in the rest. Basically you did a lot of what I'd want (except the bed would be storage) so thank you.
That sounds awesome! Glad we could inspire you!
This is so well done!
Thanks so much!
We had those same Ikea drawers and moved them int the rv when we went fulltime. They are SOO heavy though so we ended up selling them and just added storage under the couch instead. I love the idea of you making that shower space your clothing space/closet space... which still keeping it a toilet area. I'd have added doors though... Toilets cause a lot of SPLASH when flushed. lol Hope the lid is always down!
Amazing! Excellent carpentry skills. The finished result is absolutely beautiful. I love it!
Thank you so much! 💗
This is amazing! I wish there were RVs that came with this setup already - been looking for a real 2 bedroom with office
Thanks so much! The DRV Orlando RV has a master bedroom and a bunk house with a large desk that could be used as an office as well.
I love this! It looks amazing! We are still renovating our toyhauler back room. Those bike racks are cool!
Thank you! We enjoyed the process. Good luck with your remodel!
We have a small toy hauler where the garage is basically the whole camper with a bathroom and bedroom and I've been wanting to make it into a beautiful living room for rainy day camping and now I know I can! Your room turned out so Beautiful!!
Thank you so much! You can definitely make a toy hauler beautiful! It’s a blank slate!
Going to do the bathroom closet to our 397th garage master too, thanks for all the ideas!
Awesome! Did you see our separate video showing the bathroom remodel? Let us know if you have any questions!
@@McVeyMcFarm yeah! Thanks! We've been going back and forth for 2 years on whether we want to for resale purposes but at this point we've decided to make it work for us and hope the right people find it when we're ready to sell because it makes MUCH more sense.
Great project! Love you doing it together. :)
Thank you! 😊
Can you share how much your budget was for this remodel?
If my memory serves me correctly, we were @ about $10k or so total. This included some fun new tools, RV supplies, TPMS, Garmin, etc … etc …
Nice renovation 👍❤️
Thank you 😊
GOALS! Love what y'all did with the place. We're in the 3740BH and have toy hauler envy. ;)
Thanks so much! We looked at the 3740BH before buying ours. I really liked the living room and kitchen setup.
I’m so jealous! Looks great
Thanks so much!
RV manufacturers need to take note! I’m looking for a Toy Hauler to do something similar (though, I’m looking for something that has a shower… rare in toy haulers I’m finding). A wise manufacturer would build a Master/flex space floor plan because there’s a significant enough market for people who don’t use these as traditional “toy haulers.”
Nice work!! Turned out great!
Thanks so much, and I agree!
Take a look at the new 2025 Brinkley G3970. We are about to purchase one due to this. FYI MSRP Is far from actual dealer prices.
@ I was very close to purchasing the 3970. Absolutely love it, but couldn’t make the financing work. Will give it another look down the road. Seems like an amazing floor plan!
That was a great, informative video!! You make it look so easy, and the final product is absolutely beautiful! I loved your added "funny clips." 🥰👋👋👋
Thank you!!! 💗
Great job
Thanks!
Good idea 👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
Great video and awesome job on transforming that garage into a master suite! We just ordered a new toy hauler (Brinkley 3500) and looking for different ideas on how to utiize the additional space other than an office! Just subscribed so keep the awesome videos coming!
That is awesome! We toured the Brinkley at the Tampa RV show. It’s gorgeous! Congrats! And thanks for the sub!
I'd like to accomplish a hybrid between how the Happijac works OOTB, what you did and what I've seen on another channel.
1. Use the lower Happijac bracket for a desks on either side.
2. Be able to "grab" the top from a greater distance so you can leave monitors on the desk when you bring the top bunk down.
3. Bring the whole thing to the floor.
The idea is to have a full height dual office in the day, and a quick conversion to bedroom every night.
From your experience, do you think a spacer between the two Happijac levels that allows the bottom engaging with the top to bring it down is feasible? Is there enough travel for the lower to go right to the floor with the upper say 3' above it?
Very Nice! So creative and inspiring. We RV'ed almost a year in 2021. It was a steep learning curve but we learned a lot. I would like to do it again but when I'm not working so much. The one thing I missed the most when on the road was adequate freezer space. I'd like to figure out a solution for that in our next RV.
Very true! We have a residential fridge in ours, so the freezer is normal sized, but we do miss our big chest freezer from when we lived in a house.
So true! I miss the extra space
You guys did an amazing job!!!!
Thank you so much!
AMAZING build!
Thank you so much!
Do y’all happen to have any measurements for what materials you used to level the floor?
About how much flooring did you need for the toy hauler?
Love this remodel!! I want a toy hauler to have garage space but I worried about small children and them wondering out the back. Making it the master is brilliant!!
I believe I just saw this on Facebook for sale yesterday?
Thank you! Yes! It is for sale!
Hey I love your build! I was very inspired with your frame and applied the same to my toy hauler! So thankful for this video! I was wondering how exactly you got electrical to your bed to work with the happy jack?
We ran the electrical cord along a channel of loose zip ties connected to the HappiJac so that it would slide up and down with the bed.
This is awesome! A few questions tho:
1. How do you secure the furniture under the bed for travel days?
2. Is the bed limited on how far down it goes?
Thanks, cant wait to check out your other vids!
Hi Randy, the desk and dresser are bolted to the floor and walls. We also use bungee cords to secure the drawers. The bed can come down all the way, but obviously we have to stop it before it hits the computer monitor. But if there was nothing underneath it, we’d be able to bring it all the way down. You can see how we custom made the bed, and how we changed it so that it could go all the way up and down in this video: ua-cam.com/video/e7RuHhjfwGg/v-deo.html
When you said you ran a channel up the Happy Jack System using zip ties to get power to the lights and top of the bed- What does that mean?? I'm trying to figure out how the bed going up and down doesn't cause a problem with an extension cord or is there a different way?
This took me a good day or two to figure out. I tried several approaches and finally settled on the following (which also happened to be the easiest/simplest).
1) Pin (zip tie) the one end of the extension cord where the frame meets the bed corner. I zip tied ours to the wood bed frame corner.
2) Make 2 or 3 loops vertically along the backside (garage ramp door). These zip ties I left quite loose. Think 1”-1.5” diameter so the cord could freely move up and down. Your goal isn’t to keep the cord tight like a normal zip tie. It’s more so just trying to keep the cord hidden behind the happijac rail.
3). Because the cord has weight, when the bed is lowered, the cord will naturally fall to the ground (through the loose zip ties) and kind of just lay flat in the floor. Our desk hid that on one side and dresser hid it in the other.
Hope that helps better answer it. The cord is visible in the backside of the rail but almost entirely invisible from the front.
Good looking build. Now being a year later, how well is the bed holding up? I noticed a decent amount of deflection on the 2x4's. Personally, I would have figured out a way to use 2x6's if they didnt fit.
It’s actually been almost 3 years since the build (we did it in Jan 2022), and it’s holding up great! No issues.
Amazing!! BRAVO!! Did you have a hard time getting the diamond plate off?
Thank you! No, if I recall correctly, it came right off.
Such a great transformation. What color did you use on the vertical shiplap please?
Thank you so much! It’s Benjamin Moore CW-640.
Love the leveling of the floor in the back. Going to be doing the same myself. What size screws did you use for the brackets to the floor and to the wedges. Self tapping I assume? Do you have a video just on that part?
The floor is relatively thick (at least in our GD). You can get a good idea on thickness by pulling one of the d-rings in the floor. Going through the wood triangles, we probably ran 2” screws and going through the brackets only we probably topped out size wise at 1”-1/4” screws. We were able to reuse quite a few square head screws from the RV itself. Good luck!
@@McVeyMcFarm Thank you..Perfect
You are so talented with building. Can I ask though? Is it annoying climbing the stairs for bed every night?
Not at all. The only annoying part is when you have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. 🤪
Nice job! Its been a year now, have you had you have any issues with the bed frame or changes you would make if you could do it over?
It’s actually been 3 years since we did this renovation, and we never had any issues in the year and a half that we owned it. The new owners are still using it a year and a half after we sold it to them, and they haven’t had any problems with it either. They’re traveling in it full time just like we did, and it’s holding up just fine. 😊
does your bed go up all the way with the headboard and the nightstands you made?
It goes to within 20” or so of the very top. I’m 6’ and can walk under it without hitting my head with a couple inches to spare.
Do you think the reverse on the bed would work - remove the bed so the couches can rise up higher for a taller machine in the RV area?
Yes, I don’t see why not.
Looks amazing! How much space do you have underneath the bed when it’s raised all the way up?
Thank you! We have over 6 feet. My husband is 6 ft tall and can walk underneath it with several inches to spare.
What material did you use for the Underlayment? There’s so many options and I can’t figure out which will work for a Toy Hauler floor like this.
I don’t know if this is the exact one we used, but it’s very similar: www.homedepot.com/p/Comfortboost-100-sq-ft-3-5-ft-x-28-57-ft-x-0-08-in-Foam-Underlayment-for-Laminate-Hardwood-and-Engineered-Flooring-CB100/308494358
What did you do about the AC getting air to the bottom with the bed up?
2 of the ceiling vents weren’t covered by the bed, and the bed was still about 2 feet from the ceiling for the others. So we had plenty of air during the day.
How do yall keep the desk and chair in the garage area from sliding around on move days? Im thinking about making an office in mine and would love tips :)
Great question! We used small "L" brackets attached to the floor and wall for the desk. We then used those same "L" brackets to attach the desk top to the (2) Ikea drawers. As for the chair, we ordered wheels that had brakes on them, and simply used a bungee cord to keep it held tight to the test. D-Rings (easily found on Amazon, Harbor Freight, etc....) are what we used all over the rig to attach bungee cords to things.
@@McVeyMcFarm awesome thank you!
looks amazing! what color greyish/green did you use and the brand? Thank you! Great Job! especially love the bathroom, shiplap, and bike holder"s are awesome!
Thank you! It's CW-640 by Benjamin Moore.
Big Question I hear that RV walls are difficult to paint so what paint and primer did you guys use ??
We used Bin Zinsser Shellac Primer and Benjamin Moore paint with an eggshell finish.
What would y’all do to replace the back screen doors?
Hmm, I’m not sure. Like if they were broken? I suppose you could call Lippert or Grand Design for a replacement. I’ve seen other people install French doors back there.
Can I ask what type of blinds they are and where you got them?
Here’s the link to them. amzn.to/432D9cl
Thank you very much. Love the camper!@@McVeyMcFarm
Where did you buy the rails to lift the bed?
Do you mean the wood platform? We built it.
@@McVeyMcFarm i meant the jacks for the bed is it HappiJac?
Bro at like 5:10, you can see this guys real character…. The whole video has this weird vibe that they aren’t happy…. Look at his face when HE incorrectly pushed a board through a table saw and she is expected to make sure it doesn’t get messed up…
Just sayin… little things like that in social media can show you all that their life is only what they want you to see…
Great job
Thanks!