Floor plans, blueprints?

[5B Steve]

    I was wondering if anyone has floor plans that they could post for there (if they  have a 35 ft) I know you build as you go,

   what I am looking for is the measurements for the lay out.  I have seen this on the web but can't seem to find it.  Simple, bed

    in the back, Bathroom area, Shower, ___small kitchen area, booth, chairs etc. 


    Thanks a million!


   Steve 5B......

[BG6]

Go the other direction.  Figure out what you want in there and where you want (or have) to put it (you don't want your toilet drain to come out in the wheel well, for instance).  Whatever room is left, you can rearrange.

[robertglines1]

tape on the floor....cardboard boxes sized to your cabinets or appliances-you can move them around until you are happy with set up...

[JackConrad]

  When we did our floor plan, we started with "required dimensions" such as bed in the rear, toilet & shower in bathroom, and sofa in the front. Then we decided what worked for us as far as "optional dimensions" such as kitchen counter and bathroom space.
  Measure the interior of your coach and make a scale drawing, 1/4" per foot is a nice sized scale. Then make scale cut-outs af all the "required dimension" articles and put them on your drawing. You can move them around until you find a layout you think will work for you. Next step is to tape these dimension on the floor of your coach and walk around them. I have even seen people make furniture and cabinet mock-ups using cardboard.
  Everyone has different requiremnents based on there use of the coach such as week-end trips vs full time vs short trips, etc. Also how many people on board. We tell people our coach was designed for "Cocktails for 6, Dinner for 4 and Sleeps 2". Another factor is whether you plan to always be connected to a power pole or spend time dry camping.
   It is always nice to look at other floorplans and visit RV shows to steal borrow ideas, but the final plan should be be based on your use of the coach.  Jack

[Chaz]

I know what you are saying, BG6, but I think he'd just like some different ideas to contemplate. Steve has been down here a time or two to see my bus but was interested in getting some ideas that others have used. Mine is your basic plan but I too was also wanting to go a little different route someday.
I think it would be a cool "sticky" if people would want to post their plans. I think it would help the "newby's, as well as the "ground-upper's". 
Heck, I have a "nose problem" as well and would like to see what others have done. Altho most plans are basic and common, people can have some pretty cool idea's about doing things different. I know I like to think outta the box. Sometimes it works ,and then other times ..........  not as well. 
Hopefully, some of you have some stuff you can post.

You know, now thinking about it........... I'll start another post. 

Chaz

[BG6]

Mine is your basic plan but I too was also wanting to go a little different route someday.

There are only two practical "plans."  One is a center aisle through the bathroom, the other puts the aisle to the side where it passes the bath.  Front to back on just about every conversion that works is living room, kitchen, bath, bedroom.  I have the side aisle and much prefer it to a center aisle.

The first thing -- and the single, most important -- is to place the toilet.  You need a big hole that goes straight down to the black tank.  Everything else in the coach must be arranged to permit this. 

The standard location for your dump is to the left.

Your measurements come from the BACK, not the front.  Once you know where the toilet goes, then figure out your tub/shower/whatever in relation to the toilet and the size of bedroom you want.  Measure your bed, tape the floor where it will go, then you know where your walls will be.

[Van]

This was how we started, by taping the floor. as BG6 said figure the toilet for a straight drop if you can, then as Jack mentioned the size of the bed and living area. here is a pix of the first tape up of the floor,haven't gotten to much further because of some of the floor is in the replacement stage, but hopefully you will get the idea. good luck

[bowmaga]

Just draw it in autocad......  or i can for you.  here's ours....well it was ours, now it some other lucky fellers.

[Ncbob]

With all due respect to our brother converters those of us with 5a's, 5b's and 5c's have some unique problems that sometimes our larger brethren forget. We have to live with the interior wheel wells and trust me....that can be more than a pain in the butt...but they're there and we have to live with them

Want a double or a queen sized bed in the back of the bus so you and Mama can stretch out and sleep comfortably? You can build the bed fore and aft, as they say in boats, or thwartships. either way one of you is going to have to stumble over that @#$%^& wheel well.

Going forward (because that's usually the way you build an interior) you have ample room for a bathroom and shower and perhaps a closet. Then comes the galley and dinette. Hmmm, we're suddenly running out of room because we have two more of those stupid humps in the floor on each side of the bus.

"I'd sure like to put a navigators chair for the wife just behind the door so she can help me with the map reading (and it sure will promote a bit more of togetherness) I'm thinking.

It is then that you realize that you might have made the wrong decision when you bought this bus because you didn't plan things out. And if you've talked to friends you now realize the the MC-7's and later models have cantilevered bay doors and you're going to have to life those heavy suckers and not have enough room for everything that Mama wants to store in the Bus.

Now, my reply to your post is mostly 'tongue-in-cheek' but I have been where you are going. I would be happy to send you a drawing of the layout of my bus (we're full-timing and love it) but it would take a bit of work....not that I'm above it...I'm just not anxious to do it.

Let's see where this thread goes. I congratulate you on buying one of the best (and fastest) models that MCI has offered and offer this advice  with sincerity.  Watch out for those GM guys who will try to discourage you!

NCbob

[Ncbob]

Egads Steve. How tempus does fugit!  Here's the pix..guess you aren't that far along yet.

NCbob

[Ncbob]

More

The two closet doors when opened close off the bedroom and the front of the bus from the bath and bobshower.

[Ncbob]

Last ones.

Bob

[JohnEd]

ATHWART SHIP and a dresser closet across the rear wall.  8 foot long closet and a full dresser and a nook for the TV for 3 feet of length used.  How can there be any other way?

You lay out the side vs center and you see where you give up HUGE storage and passage space.  Passage doubles for use.  You have doors at both end for privacy and you  can enclose the toilet.  There is the illusion of space and roominess.  Wifey was all set to insist on side isle and then I penciled it out for her and she changed her mind almost before I got the extra 10 feet of cabinets drawn in.

I think the passenger chair should rotate so it is the "other" chair for the little table in the LR.  In the custom jets the chairs can be moved fore and aft and towards the center isle or the bulkhead.  I do not know how they did that.

John

[Ncbob]

JohnEd, are you forgetting we have inside wheel well b oth in the bedroom and the living area?

That's why I opted for the twin beds. As they say it isn't that short over it's that loooong drag back!

In the living area I installed two 6' couches. They both cover the wheel wells and allow room for friends to visit comfortably. Neither one makes into a fold out bed. Our Bus sleeps 3..the wife and me and the dog.

Stev hope this helps. I have mor pix..juist ask.

NCbob

[JohnEd]

NC,

You are absolutely correct.....in your pref.  Momma won't go if I have twin beds.....won't hear of it.  She is putting up with the Winnie cause that is strictly interim if we full time.  I have full timed off and on in the Winnie for a total of years.  I don't have the phobic reaction of Wifey but I would go a long way in inconvenience to get that queen bed.  That's just me though and, yes, I knew you had the "humps".

John