How to change an RV Dinette to Lazyboy Recliners
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Today we completed another Truck Camper Magazine Mod Contest where this one encompassed changing our Dinette to Lazyboy Recliners! This changeover can be accomplished without any tools, and can easily be changed back if we wish. The essence of this change was to give us better more 'cushiony' seating during our long travels with the Truck Camper over many months. In addition to the new seats, it also includes custom articulating tables to allow eating, or laptops, right at our fingertips. These tables pivot out of the way for sitting down and travel. This change should be a perfect upgrade for our lifestyle!
Note: We tried several chairs and they didn’t work out satisfactorily. One was a ‘gaming’ chair that was too stiff and not cushiony enough (sent back). Another was an IKEA wooden chair that I had to cut 6” off its height (broke, not robust enough). These last chairs are perfect! They are leather, with arms, swiveled, and the back tilted. These are called ‘Floor Chairs’ and after exhausting internet searches could only be found in China! Although moderately expensive, we spent the money and are thrilled with the quality! A link to the chairs is as follows:
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One of the best mods I've seen. I've always thought those dinettes were too restrictive and unconformable.
Great idea. I would need something for my feet, no way could they dangle about. Wife would need a step stool to get in, but nice easy idea!
This is brilliant! I was just about to remove the dinette completely, until I saw your video. Love this Idea! Thanks for sharing.
Us too, we were just talking about this last night. Great idea and I love the idea of making something to put your legs up on with the drawers out - brilliant idea! I LOVE the table ideas also!
Not only an excellent job but nicely filmed and presented. It's amazing camper manufacturers have not clued in on what a great option this is. I've spent 3 months in a camper and know first hand how uncomfortable those dinettes are.
A friend did a similar mod in his C class. Instead of the swing away table, he used a pop up coffee type table that could be use to eat on and then drop down for a foot rest. Works amazingly well.
I'm so glad you put this out there. Thank you so much ! We updated our dinette in a similar manner and we love it !
This is a well thought out and quite ingenious mod. Very impressive.
Those articulating tables are sweet. Very clever. We are in the process of changing out an RV couch with two recliners, was looking for some sort of table resolution, your idea is perfect. Thanx!
yes leg support would be great too have. have someway to support your legs while sitting in those chairs.
I was thinking the same thing. Fantastic, only missing one thing.....
Great innovation, thinking outside the box....
may look a little strange but this is the first thing I thought of www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/guide-gear-camp-chair-foot-stool?a=2195357&szc=000&clrc=107&pm2d=CSE-SPG-15-PLA&PLA&Google&CI&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhv-NleXL6wIViAiICR1Ytwf4EAQYCiABEgLKwPD_BwE
@@JNatella i have RA and live in a lot of pain, especially feet, ankles, and legs. I bought the Moon Pod ottoman and it’s wonderful. I can always scrunch it for more support, or whatever I need. Pricey, but totally worth it for me. Goes with any chair or sofa. BTW, for me, the Moon Pod chair was too hard to get in/out of, but I’m old, lol. Their ottoman is great!
Pervert!!!
This is my favorite mod yet! Thanks for the videos and keep them comming
Fantastic, thanks for the ideas. Two upgrades I might like is a cup holder between the chairs and footstools.
www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/guide-gear-camp-chair-foot-stool?a=2195357&szc=000&clrc=107&pm2d=CSE-SPG-15-PLA&PLA&Google&CI&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhv-NleXL6wIViAiICR1Ytwf4EAQYCiABEgLKwPD_BwE
Excellent solution!
you should send a copy of this video to the truck camper manufacturers like northstar campers and lance it would be great to be able to buy a camper from the factory with this mod in it
especially love your clever tables! great idea!
You could mount some footrests the same way so you’re not dangling and taking a chance on a blood clot. Very innovative! Well done you!
Very nice! I have a similar idea, mostly with similar chairs mounted onto floor cupboards. Just like you, if I lose the chair legs I can have them sit on storage instead. Maybe you can add a very secure rod or something to the top of the cupboard below as a foot rest.
Excellent improvise and overcome Charles. The modifications you made to that T.V. arm would make for an excellent DIY video. Thanks for posting.
Make leg supports that you can Attach to the plywood just like you did with the tables you can adjust them to your liking and have them upholstered where your calves rest on them
What an elegant solution to a continuing problem! If you removed the chairs, you would have a great bed area with pillows. That was truly brilliant! I will use your articulating arm idea for a console table in the cab area.
Absolutely brilliant! I think we will do that to the rear dinette of our travel trailer.
What a neat, transparent comfort add on.
Ingenious, I like how you have a new space and also managed to keep the old setup 👍
super duper clever! I hope you have other nifty videos like this, I may have to borrow, or use inspiration from, your great idea!
I'd gotten a quote for a (factory order) Chalet a few years ago, was surprised and disappointed that as with other manufacturers, no one was offering this as a factory option. A Truck Camper by definition is a small space. Seems to me its more likely to have two-persons on board than 4 or more. I think the manufacturers should offer comfortable recliner seating for two, with a means of optionally seating two others, perhaps on a bench that could be mounted in front of the recliners. Your design is great.
Snowriver campers out of BC offered a quad recliner, they are out of business now, some used ones around
I have a dinette and a couch across from it and this a purrrfect idea. I have been trying to figure out how to put a cat post at a window. Now I can have a counter expansion on top of the one bench top then giving my kitchen area an L shape plus, the cat's space. 2 problems solved simply . Thanks
Great Mod Charles. I know leg supports has been suggested. I would add a small padded top consol between the chairs with storage under a lid and maybe a drawer in the bottom. You know some place to store all the electronic chargers and adaptors you accumulate. Nice neat work.
Great ideas! This is exactly what we need!
I too am/was missing comfortable seating options in my Arctic Fox 990. Like you I could not afford to loose my underneath storage. let alone the furnace that is located on one side. This modification will allow me to retain these necessary items and pick up a comfy chair for coffee in the morning.
You could have bolted a Murphy Style ironing board on the wall as a table for really cheap but of course you went for style in the class
Great Job! Would not thought of that Mod! Keep up the Great Work!
This guy's the G.O.A.T.
Excellent idea
A little bit late with this comment, but better late than never -
I can't imagine that it would take too much to add a lid to your storage drawers to do double duty as a foot rest.
Inspiring idea, Charles!
Trevor Reiten, how about a removable board that nests between the drawer with a cushion on top?
good quality recliners are the most important thing for me ! I wouldn't buy even a small RV, without a set of recliners. I sure don't need that dinette. Eat outside or on a foldup table. I have difficulty laying flat ...sleep apnea/chronic sinusitis. I want to do what you did....or just have the dealer remove the dinette ...altogether.
As many have mentioned, great mod, non-destructive and all that, but needs a foot rest. I also like that with the cushions placed in storage, the foot-well underneath the "normal" dinette could be used for folding chairs, or other bulky items. Thanks for the vid.
Or to store a foot rest
Omg, what I needed. Thanks!
Another great mod / video. Perhaps some felt on inside of the clamp so wood doesn't get scratched.... Watching a bunch more of these videos tonight. Love em.
This is the best idea e have seen so far!
Thank you for sharing this great idea!!
Awesome work! Keeping it simple.
Been looking for something like this for awhile. This is absolutely great! You did a superb job. I was thinking about using this on a Lance 1995 which has the full length drawers but would still work. My only addition would be to somehow have a chair with a footrest too. Otherwise, this is my 95% solution and I am now a subscriber. Well done!
Can you tell me how you ordered those chairs, I mean what exactly did you ask for? Also did you put the swivel mechanism on the chairs?
Thanks John
Looks good great for couples
Love it. I'll use an ottoman for leg support. You can get a matching Euro chair ottoman.
Very nice work 🎉🎉
Great video and super impressive mod. Well done!
Brilliant and clever. Thank you so much!
Impressive ingenuity
What a great 👍 idea!!!
Excellent idea thanks for sharing
Great idea!
That was clever, excellent idea !
Awesome Idea!
Very great idea!!!!
Great mod!!! Thanks for sharing!!
marvelous work, thanks for posting this, very clever :-)
Nice! Glad to see the K.I.S.S. principle at work. And I liked the fact that you left the original install in place. Like several have asked before, what about your feet? Would seem uncomfortable after a while. Great job tho!
You made that look easy!
Very creative
THAT IS JUST KOOL!
Great job Charlie...going to have to look at your truck camper when we get back to SP for the season...John G.
Brilliant
I like the idea, My thought is that my feet would be hanging down with no foot rest. Ideally a recliner with a footrest and not have to be higher up. Interesting idea, in any event.
Brilliant!
I would need a full lazy boy there. But good mod.
Just subscribed to you! I like what you did and will have to show my wife. I think she would like that too.
Really clever!
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Hello - love your idea. Can you please tell me where you purchased your chairs, and what brand they are? Thank you.
Excellent!!!!
Clever. Thank you. 🌲🌝☘️
Are those really comfortable to sit in? Does the bottom of the dinette restrict your feet? We gave up on a remodel because there wiring for the slide is under the jackknife sofa, but you made me think of another possibility.
Pretty awesome 👏 leg support would be nice 👍 well done great idea 👍🇨🇦
Foot support should've been a mandatory requirement!
I think this is such a good idea...those little booths aren’t very practical to me...I think more seating is better...comfortable seating and then use the little tables you can fold up and put away...I know that for us it would be more practical to have the extra seating
Awesome idea, Charlie! Where did you get the chairs?
Great job !
Wonderful modification. We have 19.5" door. That is why asking what your door size is. You said chair just fit through your door.
Our door is 20.5" at its narrowest spot!
Really nice.
I like the idea but I am wondering how long you can sit with your feet not touching the floor.
pretty slick Charles
Could you tell me how the chairs have held up? Good quality? I see they are only sold from China and will take a long time to deliver. Just wondering if you still feel they are worth it. Thanks
Definitely need a footrest.
Means while your legs are hanging down?? What about footrests.???.!!!!:
maybe something like this? www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/guide-gear-camp-chair-foot-stool?a=2195357&szc=000&clrc=107&pm2d=CSE-SPG-15-PLA&PLA&Google&CI&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhv-NleXL6wIViAiICR1Ytwf4EAQYCiABEgLKwPD_BwE
Great idea love it
I've been mulling over replacing the large dinette in our older 5th wheel. It sticks into the trailer across from the galley and blocks traffic flow. I'd rather have something narrower, more comfortable, and built a lot better than the factory booth seats. A couple of swiveling easy chairs I saw in a newer trailer would be great. No need to save the dinette. I almost bought one, planning to take out one side of the dinette where the bottleneck is the worst, but the seller of a nice looking one on ebay just wasted my time and that fell through. At some point, however, I plan to do that modification. We'll lose some storage space, I'll need to make a new smaller table, and will have to do some cosmetic work on the floor, but it will be worth it, I'm fairly certain.
Awesome smart love it!
Nice job.
That is an excellent mod, more so because you haven't destroyed your booth dinette to do it.....great job mate ;¬)
We would love to do this, however our dinette is a slide and is raised up and not level with main floor of the trailer. Bought chairs to do this, but now they sit up too high, need a stool to get into them....now we have to remove the frame work for the benches, which isn't what we had in mind. Other than the bed, this would be our only seating area, we have a 21 ft. Springdale Mini
Ingenious!
Brilliant!!!!!
Genius
amaze-balls! love it!
Great design...I would have added those marine cup holders...:-)
smart idea
brilliant
Would it be possible to write up how you modified the swing arm? I love this but can't see how you got the platform to face up...
I like that mod looks great. if I ever get a truck camper I would like the recliners instead of the dinette wonder if any of the truck camper manufacturers would do this as an option.
Alp RV manufacturer of Adventurer and Eagle cap offers theater recliners in place of dinette
Dangling feet without support will no doubt cause you to slide out of the chair not to mention cut circulation to the feet. Otherwise good idea to making it your own and that's what the freedom of RV living is all about.
We actually do have leg support by pulling out the dinette table top halfway out and it supports our legs perfectly!
Genius!