What is the Most Popular Space-Saving Furniture for RVs?

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For RVers, life in motorhomes is perfect to satisfy their love for traveling and enjoy freedom. However, limited space sometimes brings more frustration than freedom. Plenty of amazing spaces saving ideas come out to help them deal with this problem. This article will review the most popular space saving furniture for RVs for your reference.

Despite being an extraordinary home – home on the wheel, an RV should contain essential furniture: table, chair, TV, and last but not least bed. Nevertheless, these for RVs are not ordinary household ones.

Some special requirements must be taken into account when considering putting new furniture in the RVs. It must make sure not only to fulfill the needs of RVers but also to meet limitation of space and weight and ensure safety during transit time.

Three key points to design furniture for RVs are Convertible, Hidden and Vertical. Let’s see the most popular and useful furniture design for RVs from living space to sleeping space.

Living Space Furniture for RVs

Convertible RV furniture is extremely creative and helpful. It is multi-functional furniture that can convert into something else to save space. The obvious advantage of convertible RV furniture is to save space for sleeping.

Besides, it’s economic decision because instead of buying both chair and bed, RVers only needs to buy a convertible chair to sit and sleep. It allows RVers to buy fewer but get enough and even more uses.

Let’s begin with convertible table and chair in a range of colors, styles, and size to suit with each RV.

Convertible Table

convertible table for RV
Source: Mountain Modern Life

The fold out convertible table mounted on RV wall can be used to store small items like pen box, notebook, book, and cup inside RVs and used as a workspace.  When opened, it extends 80 cm from the wall and gives RVers an area of 80×45 cm with adjustable shelves while when closed; this “table” protrudes only 15 cm. One of the pros of the convertible table is that no assembly is required. All RVers need to do is to fasten it to the wall.

Convertible Chair

In an RV, if a chair is merely used for seating function, it’ll cover a considerable area. To solve space problem, the convertible chair is popularly used. Why don’t RVers use it for both seating and sleeping functions as below designs?

Above is an example of chair converting into a twin bed. After reading the book, you feel tired and sleepy, just pull out, and you can take a nap. It’s so comfortable and certainly space saving.

And an example of chair converting into a single bed.