Make Your Own Microcamper: Part 3 - Sleeping IN your camper

This is my third newsletter about making your own micro-campervan. (I’ve slightly edited the past 2 posts on this subject, to make the numbering of the series clearer.) This post will deal with turning your car into a sofa and a bed for 1 or 2 people who will be sleeping IN your car. In the next one (or two) posts, I’ll talk about easy add-on options, for sleeping extra people in extensions or adaptations to the car - depending on whether you’re wanting beds for one person, for two intimately-familiar people, for two not-so-intimate adults, or for a whole family of adults and kids.

Removing the back row of seats

In the last newsletter, I described how you might go about converting a car differently if you want to retain the back row of seats for day-to-day use vs if you don’t ever need the back row of seats and can permanently remove them (or if you have a van, which never had any back row of seats in the first place). I need the back row for transporting my kids, but a vehicle without …