Hi there All, Well, I just finished a pretty significant remodel of our fivers entertainment center and I wanted to share it with you all. DW and I have always needed a computer desk. Our entertainment unit had about 16 cubic feet of wasted space so by moving one cabinet down, and replacing the stock stereo with a compact car stereo and moving that around to the side, I was able to replace the 23X23 opening for a small flat panel with a 32" flat panel TV. All of this is right next to a slide out, but with the TV only sticking out 5" after being mounted on a new moveable panel, the slide works great and there is now storage behind the TV for the Computers CPU, with lots of room to spare. Part of the area in the lower part of the cabinet was used for the outdoor shower storage, but I was able to put a false wall in the lower part of the cabinet so that there was room for that plumbing as well. The computer desk area is now big enough for the printer and monitor. The desk is at 26" so it is identical to the tray we have our keyboard at in our stick and brick house. By placing the monitor on top of the VCR, it places the monitor at the same height we have the monitor at on our desk at home. I then drilled some holes in the bottome of a cheapy desk lamp from Wally world and it lights it all up for my Dearest wife! Now, she's very happy. And you know if she is happy, I'm happy.
I also replaced the kitchen sink faucet with a pull out faucet, installed an additional electrical outlet next to the sink (that is on a GFCI circuit), added a switch for the hot water heater as well as put a switch in the circuit for the outside electrical outlet so we can turn the awning lights on and off from the inside. Lastly, I put a cabinet door on the base of a little end table that we have that was used to store our electrical cable before I installed a quick disconnect on the back of the rig. Lots of little additions to make the rig more comfortable an also better use the space. The neat thing is, the Cougar really had great space utilization to start with, this was just a tune up!
The last picture is the way the entertainment center looked before the remodel.
Happy Camping! - Eric -
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