Mod - Slide out sofa bed

The Travato "K" layout we based our DIY class B RV on used 30 inch wide sofa beds. Our design used 26 inch wide sofa beds. Mostly to gain a wider center aisle that we really liked. However, it turned out 26 inch was not wide enough for me, as I sleep on my side. So we ended up always setting up the bed in the single large size each night. Really awesome, however accessing the rear bath room was difficult with no aisle.

I had noticed the new Boldt class B floorplan had one side with a slide out bed. So one side can be wider in the bed mode. I liked that idea so we decided to make a few changes...

We converted the driver side sofa bed to slide out.
Here's how it looks when extended as a wide bed. It extends up to 36 inches wide. 

Construction was done by simply using a plywood base that was cut in a interlocking slider arrangement. With 3 legs attached to the slide out to provide support in the slide out position.
And it looks like this with the cushions in place. The width is adjustable depending on how wide you prefer to make the bed and how wide you want the aisle to remain!

Notice we leave just a narrow aisle that can be used to access the rear bath room!
Here's a view in the normal sofa mode.

We also widened the width of both the passenger side and driver slide both to 28 inches instead of the 26 inch width we used on the initial design.

This leaves the center aisle wide enough to use while adding 2 inches to each side of the sofa beds.

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