Posted 2013-03-26 10:01 PM (#150879) Subject: converting dressing room to small living quarters in BP
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Location: Mexico, NY
I have just purchased a featherlite BP with a 52" shortwall in dressing room. Ideally I would love a GN but due to truck situations I need a BP at this time. I basically want to configure in a bed, electrical maybe some water? I also want to keep as much usable space as I can. I know it is small. I would love to see pictures of other DIY projects in Bumper pulls to give me ideas. Thanks so much.
Posted 2013-03-27 6:43 AM (#150884 - in reply to #150879) Subject: RE: converting dressing room to small living quarters in BP
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Posts: 218 Location: Ohio
Without a GN to make into the bed that will be tight. A friend of mine used his BP for LQ by cleaning out the horse area, putting down a tarp and a couple cots for sleeping.
For electric, you can get a hole bit for your power drill that will make a circular cut about 3-4in in diameter and put in an electric cover over it. We then built a bench for storage just inside the trailer putting the cord in that wired to a fuse box. I then wired in AC putting a typical RV AC unit in the vent in the roof. I also put two standard duplex electrical outlets at the base of the storage bench for microwave and fridge. I then just had free standing dorm style fridge and microwave. If you have a pass through door to the horse area/sans bedroom, you can make it work. A small electric heater (oil/radiator style) will keep you toasty for cool nights or you can get a heat strip in the RV AC that will take the chill off. An outdoor cowboy shower can be picked up at any camping store such as Cabellas along with a small chem toilet and you are all set.
We had a Titan 3 horse slant with 3ft short wall dressing room for several years. Except for the bed being in the GN vs putting cots in the horse area, it is the same idea. Weekend camped many times until we saved for our full LQ rig we have now.
It is more comfortable now but the camping was just as fun with the old trailer.
I will see if I can find some pics of the bench we built and the electric set up we had. We built it in a weekend and it worked great.
Posted 2013-03-27 8:56 AM (#150887 - in reply to #150885) Subject: RE: converting dressing room to small living quarters in BP
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There was a 4star BP that was for sale awhile back that had a DR to LQ conversion. Looked very cool! Found a site where they do BP LQ conversions and ..guess what?....that 4Star is on the first BP tab page at the bottom as an example. The company was called JBJ conversions
That 2009 4star runabout is still out there under some links. Sold long time ago I guess, but neat to see the pics of the whole trailer and everything (for ideas) they added to that 2 horse
converting dressing room to small living quarters in BP
