Building A Bench For Our Campervan

Recently, we acquired a campervan conversion - a 2009 Citroen Relay with an interior originally installed by Olive & Oz (actually, it was their run-around). The van itself has done a lot of miles, but the interior really is quite beautiful. A few weeks ago, we did our first overnight and one of the things that stood out was a need for more seating - partly so there's somewhere to sit if it rains, but also so that there's somewhere the dog might settle. This post talks about creating a removable padded bench for the van. The Issue The interior of the van looks like this: Given that it's ultimately still a van, it's got quite a spacious interior. However, there's limited comfortable seating (you can perch on the boxes, but not for long) there's nowhere for a dog to spread out and be level(ish) with us when sleeping That latter point is very important - there was only room for one of the dogs to join us on the bed (Pep will fit herself anywhere), so we were kept awake by a border collie…