When we were weighing the various floorplans for our family, we noticed that all of the sofas were only 41 inches wide, so we didn't seriously consider them to be suitable for 2. We also took our kids with us to the RV shows in Denver and folded out the sofa as a bed and had the kids lay on them to see how they worked and whether they were objectionable. I guess in the end our expectations were in line with the product, partly because of the reconnaissance and partly because of some minimal experience renting other types of RV's. We have rented a couple of motor homes and a popup camper before, and even the Flexsteel jack knife sofa in the class-A was always just a sofa-bed; a little bit short with a big gully in the middle where the cushions came together. The dinettes were worse; always short, a nuisance to set up and take down, and never wide enough for 2 without the kids fighting.
Maybe eventually we'll rig up some way of raising the backrest to be level with the bottom cushion, but until the kids get a little older and less flexible we probably won't bother. It shouldn't be hard, just a couple of 1x2 strips or so resting on the angle bracket should do it. Anne pointed out that as our kids get older and want to bring friends that the cushions for the backrest of the loveseat are about the right width to span the gap between the sofa and the loveseat, and this gives a sideways legitimate queen sized bed. So we may figure out a way to support spanning that gap; then we'd have a legit double bed, a queen (that the kids would have to crawl over to get to the bathroom) and the king on our end. I recon that even with some lumpiness of the cushions that the kids will all be happy to be sleeping inside off the ground with AC/Furnace to keep the temperature right.
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