Getting a good night's sleep is always important. And out on the road is no different! A good bed can make or break your campervan experience. Which is why we’ve thought carefully about every part of the bed arrangements in our Trouvaille Classique Medium Wheel-Based campervans.
Keep reading to have all your bed questions answered!
The bed layout in the MWB
Let’s first look at the layout of the beds in the MWB. We have two options you can choose from:
(Both layouts are available as pop tops or high tops.)
Layout 1
Based on the original Trouvaille SWB with a little extra added, Layout 1 features a side kitchen layout with a RIB crash-tested seat/bed with child seat Isofix fixing points.
Layout Option 1 boasts one of the largest double beds in the range (6’1” x 4’3”) of small campervans on the market, ensuring a comfortable and restful sleep.
The bed can also be extended for additional length. This clever design, located at the end of the wardrobe, includes a cupboard door with a filler cushion attached. When unfolded, it adds extra length to the bed, creating a deluxe 7' long sleeping space.
The 4-berth MWB offers ample space for a comfortable sleep too. With the spacious large Orange Campers in-house designed elevating roof bed and the optional Cabbunk children’s bunk beds, this small campervan can easily accommodate up to five people, making it an ideal choice for family trips.
Our very own Orange Campers elevating roof has an ‘extreme’ canvas for all-year-round use (hard-wearing, weatherproof & draughtproof), protecting the reinforced roof bed inside, which can sleep two average-sized adults (with Froli roof springs for added comfort available as an optional extra at £699).
As always, we strive for cutting-edge design touches; since building our first demo, we have tweaked the layout and made the roof bed out of a special lightweight foam plywood, creating effortless manoeuvrability. The roof height has also been adjusted to give more foot space and to ensure your bedding can remain in position even when the roof bed is up.
Layout 2
Layout Option 2 is a very different layout! This features a rear kitchen with two single seats/beds (that push together to make a double) and a Thetford electric flush toilet.
Behind the chairs are two storage units, which are great places to keep your bedding during the daytime. They are adjustable on top to create two single or one double bed, depending on your needs.
The front seats are separate from the beds - so you can sit down comfortably day and night while still having the beds set up. The beauty of having singles is you can walk between them and get in and out of the bathroom more easily at night!
A lot of the time in pop top roof ‘vans, the ladders are sideways facing, and you have to go up from the side and then scramble across. But in our MWB, we have a front-facing ladder, which makes it much easier for kids and adults alike to climb up and down. We also include a child safety net so when they’re in bed, everyone’s nice and safe, and there’s no danger of falling out.
In the pop top, the roof bed pivots up and out the way into the roof space, which gives more head height for walking around during the day. You can pop the ladder up into the bed and leave your bedding up there when not in use, which saves a lot of hassle!
We have some customers who don’t need a roof bed but still opt for a pop top. Instead, we take the roof bed out, which allows you to walk all the way down to the front of the van without banging your head at all. However, we can confirm that Richard, who is around 5’9, can stand up with the roof bed down.
So even with the full six-foot bed on the roof, it stops before reaching the kitchen, leaving you plenty of room to walk around at night with all the beds fully set up.
Watch Richard’s tour of how we set up the beds when going away for an off-grid mini-break
How do you set the beds up?
Putting the beds in position is very simple – it takes seconds! You just pull the lever, and they swing open. Being single beds, they’re much lighter to put together and drop down. So, if you have found lifting up a double bed quite hard, then our single beds are much easier to use.
You can move between day and night effortlessly and configure your seating and beds to your custom needs.
In layout option 2, the double bed is easily set up by sliding them together from the side – coming together to become one big double bed.
You can spin the front chair round to create more space if you're a bit taller. This puts the full width of a pillow on the front seat, and you can lay it that way to add additional length. By using your pillow up there, you can tilt the chair up a bit. The chairs are very flexible, moving and tilting backwards and forwards – and on the base, as well.
These single beds are 6 feet in length, so by placing the pillow along the front seat, you extend this to 6’4. And you've still got a lot of usable space at the back – getting out of bed to use the loo or kitchen is comfortable!
What about storing your bedding and other bits and bobs?
With the beds set up, there are no legs underneath, making this a great storage space or a comfy place for pets to curl up and call their own!
The beds aren’t cramped either – you can sit up comfortably in bed and pull the backs up really nice and high.
Worried about an awkward gap when pushing together to create a double bed?
Well, don’t! There’s no gap in the middle; it’s all fully joined across.
The beauty of that is you can have one sat up and one laid down, or you can have them at different heights, so that gives you even more flexibility.
Watch Richard talk us through how the beds work in the MWB
Interested in the Trouvaille Classique MWB?
Find out more about the MWB here, and of course, if you have any questions or anything you'd like to discuss, do get in touch.
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