hightop - what did you do with yours?

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hightop - what did you do with yours?

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Has anyone done a conversion from upper bed to cupboards on their hightop? I am helping a mate with a complete refit on a van he has just bought and we are a bit stuck on what to do with the rear section of the hightop, the top is high all the way to the back with an almost dead square end so to just fit a cupboard would mean either the cupboard would be huge and he wouldnt be able to reach things at the rear or we fit a smaller cupboard and have a empty void at the back of it.
Your suggestions would be most appreciated and some pics would be fab :ok
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can never have too much room and some of them litter pickers grabbers might help :lol:
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weldore wrote:can never have too much room and some of them litter pickers grabbers might help :lol:
Does Gail use them to pick up your used skiddies :rofl :rofl
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:rofl they dont make em long enuff ...or strong enuff :rofl
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Sorry Biggydog, your asking for trouble this time of night...now back to hightops :oops:
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yes ian..leave my skiddies out of this .....hmm wonder if theres any still in there right at the back from when we were at cromer :shock:


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weldore wrote:can never have too much room and some of them litter pickers grabbers might help :lol:
we are all Fen Folk even with a litter/pant grabber i dont think they could reach the back :lol:
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you saying you need a periscope too ?
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weldore wrote:you saying you need a periscope too ?
hmmm if the cupboard is to all the way back then yes and maybe one of those fairground grabber mechanisms would be good :rofl
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:shock: you might be onto something there :idea


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:shock: what about one of them things you get in kitchen corner units :ok
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sorry its crude but I did think about installing a rear half cupboard slightly on the incline and using a couple of the underbed roller plastic storage boxes in it then as you pull down the rear cupboard door it would form a platform for the boxes to roll forward on.
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Can you not put a partition in and a door on the back for "outside" things, cables,kids etc
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I converted my hightop from bed to large cupboards - see http://www.busgutz.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for pics. I store stuff in boxes up there- those large plastic ones from Argos ( think they are for under bed storage )

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I've got cupboards down one side of my high top in the roof. So the upper bed is like a 3/4 bed as well as the downstairs bed.

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