Bedroom Floor Plan

Yesterday and today, I used Visio to create a floor plan of the bedroom in my Travel Trailer. Doesn’t that sound easy?

Well, considering that Visio is a Microsoft program with plenty of power and capability and I am a poor old woman with little power and even more limited capability, you might be able to appreciate the difficulty I had in creating the following floor plan:

Part of my problem was that, until yesterday, I had only used Visio for flowcharts, never for architectural purposes.

Needless to say, the diagram works, but may need some explanation. 

The wall shown on top, which is at the front of the camper, slopes toward the front. You can probably best see this slope from looking at the picture of camper front from the outside.

The “Bed” (ca 74” by 54”) consists of a hinged piece of plywood which supports a mattress. The plywood lifts up to reveal the storage areas underneath, including the one holding the water tank.

The floor of the cabinet on the right side is about 12” above the floor in order to put it on a level with the bed and to make room for one of the outside cabinets to pass through under it. The storage area stretches under the bed over to the divider that separates the under-bed storage area into the area with the water tank and the area without it. These areas are clearly visible in the pictures in one of the previous posts.

The cabinets above the bed are not really above the window as they appear in the diagram. The window is the one that’s shown on the front of the camper in the picture of the outside. The cover for that window has the solar panel on it.

The window on the left is the emergency exit – every camper must have one besides the door.

The door into the bedroom has a folding ?canvas? door which allows for privacy.

I haven’t figured out what the little triangular shelf is for. It’s way to small to be very useful except possible as a place to put an alarm clock.

You’ll note the heater vent, which I hope never to have to use.

Tomorrow (10/30/2009), I will be free for 8 hours (Kristen will be staying with Mom), but am taking a break and will probably go to Busch Gardens instead of working on the camper.

‘Til next time…