The Living Room

I'm breaking these posts down into 'rooms' to make it easier to fit in and describe each living area of the Van, but I was having a bit of a laugh about it yesterday while walking Suky along the riverbank because you'll have realised of course that it's all open plan and therefore just one large 'room'.

As I think I've mentioned before the Van is 36 foot long and 12 foot wide, a total of 432 square feet of living space.  This is divided equally into two halves, so 18 foot of open plan living, kitchen and dining room space and the other half being made up of the main bedroom with en-suite toilet and basin, the twin bedded room and the shower room.

Today I'll show you what there is up to now of the living room, I'm just about to unpack the books and bits and bobs that we left here stowed under the bed over Winter, which will make it feel ... and look ... a lot more like home.

As you can see in the top photo there is a fireplace with an electric 'coal effect' fire, this is lovely as a quick warm up if we've been out and the heating is off.  But we don't use it much as the van really is very warm with the full central heating system heating radiators in every room.

Next to it on a matching unit is the television that my son Simon gave us when he upgraded via the local cheap selling pages and managed to get himself a huge, blokey model for £100.  It runs in the family this money saving mentality, he's a chip off the old block 😉

 We also have a Freeview Play box to give us a wide selection of programmes, and of course a DVD player for me to watch my huge collection of films and boxed sets on rainy days and cosy nights in.

The seating area is in an L shape.

There is a spare fold out double bed under the seats to the left of the picture and lots of storage space under all the others.  The little coffee table matches everything else in the van ... but might be going in the near future when I find something more logical and useful.  There's no rush though, it serves its purpose, it's just annoying walking round it all the time.

One of Suky and Mavis' favourite areas,  the bed they share in front of the full length windows.  They watch the world go by and growl at passing dogs ... it passes the time between snoozes, meals and doggy walks.

My television watching and cosy reading corner, with Suky's little doggy mat for her to snuggle up on when Mum finally sits still in one place and it's time to relax.  Her little mat comes through to the bedroom at bedtime when it's just the two of us here and she sleeps on it on the bed with me.

And finally the little lady herself waiting to go out.  

She loves it here, mostly because virtually all the local shops, businesses and cafes allow dogs in ... it's a Pugs idea of heaven going out and about with Mum. 

Sue xx