We are just delighted with this conversion. It has made the trailer more useful both on the road and at home. My husband is currently using this as his temporary home office since our middle son has boomeranged.
One of the design goals for the new look of the trailer was a lower line, sleeker cushions. The original Airstream foam is 5″ thick polyester foam. When we initial refreshed the trailer in 2001, we just used the old foam as patterns- that is we took the foam pieces to the local House of [...]
The foam was done, the Dacron glued and some quick slipcovers made from some random Ikea fabric that I had laying around. Actually, three different fabrics but that is another tale; just enough to get the banquette up and rolling so we could spend a week in heaven.
