Cabinets were preexisting from my last trailer. Dressing room is approximately 6x6. The bottom cabinets were supposed to be mock ups but they stayed. Completed in 3 days or so, would be longer if the cabinets weren’t built yet.
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Oh wow, that looks great! That’s in line what I always wanted to do if I ever got a gooseneck again; that area is perfect for a bed. 
Think of how much money you save at overnight shows!
Also… is that a stack of saddle pads? Where did those all go?
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It is haha. They’re normally on shelves carefully organized with the show pads in the house somewhere but… my life is crazy right now. The pile is now on top of a laundry basket, and will probably be moved 10 more times before it finds a final home 
Eta: There’s a few super thick western ones at the bottom. That’s why the stack looks so big. 🫣
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Looks cozy.
I used cloth dishtowels with Velcro to curtain the bus windows in the GN where my mattress was.
DR was carpeted, so I left that.
I had space for a folding chair (with arms) so I could sit & read, instead of having to always sit on the mattress.
& added a Camp Toilet:
5gal bucket w/a lid, lined with a trash bag, filled w/kitty litter. Beat having to find a bathroom to pee at night. The Luxe version can add a toilet seat that sits on top 
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Honestly, that is how it goes. I have a stack of saddle pads that I brought in to clean. Well, they’ve been washed and cleaned for four months, and have yet to make it back to the barn because the cats have decided they’re a good bed.
What’s your lighting set up like, how did you rig that?
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There are two leds, controlled with a 3 way switch. One switch by the door, the other is up in the bed area.
That sconce fixture you can see was a whoops. I would have deleted that from the drawing but I didn’t catch it. It was in the way of my cabinet so i grabbed some Romex and moved it over a foot or so and reattached it to the wall.
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Is there anything more perfect than kitties sleeping on saddle pads.
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Well done!
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Really beautiful! Love it! Is that a floating floor or is it glued?
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Floating. Just threw underlayment down and went over it.
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I put big carpet squares down in the floor of my tack room, but now seeing yours I may have to rethink that! Very nice!
It also looks like you added some insulation to the interior roof?
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I tend to freak out in tight spaces, but your tack room looks nice and cozy. I like the two lower tables. and you even have room for a trunk or 4!! (those little wheely guys).
Well done!!
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It’s fiberglass. Remains to be seen how much it will sweat!
Very attractive. Have you checked on how much weight you added overall to the trailer and the tongue?
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I haven’t and am not concerned, personally.
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I love this! I’ve thought of building some kind of trunk/cabinet that would double as steps up into my gooseneck. Putting outdoor carpet all over the interior of tack rooms has always seemed crazy to me. I have an outdoor rug in mine that is kind of like a woven plastic, which is much easier to sweep out, but changing the floor out completely would be better.
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This is freakin’ gorgeous. Thank you for posting it.
I’m planning to do very similar stuff to my own DR when I head back down to FL to get it and my horse, though my new-to-me trailer is more venerable than yours. I did at least finally finish getting the old, manky carpet glue off with an angle grinder before I slept in the (uninsulated, unfinished) DR the night I was down there, so the lack of moldy carpet glue was a definite improvement.
Some questions:
- It looks like you didn’t do any studs for the flooring insulation, just laid it down on the plywood, taped, and floated the engineered hardwood over it. Is that correct?
- It also looks like you didn’t screw in the studs on the bulkhead wall of the gooseneck, just construction adhesive’d/braced/let dry. Also true? I don’t really want to screw into my bulkhead if I don’t need to.
- Did you do additional rigid insulation beyond the carpet pad/carpet on the flat part of the gooseneck? It looks like maybe you laid plywood over the steel, then attached your studs to that?
- How thick are the floor and bulkhead wall insulations? Are they EPS, XPS, or polyiso? If EPS or XPS, why’d you select that over polyiso?
- Did you additionally glue the insulation on the bulkhead wall or just wedge in place and tape the sheets in place to the studs with the HVAC tape before applying the panel sheathing?
No studs for the flooring underlayment. Staples used as sparingly as I could.
Furring strips on the jack wall (Bulkhead wall is the other one, to the horse area) are glued with construction adhesive.
No, I didn’t add any insulation to the flat part. I’m already a little short of headroom because I added height to the jack wall (also called the drop wall) to clear my tall truck.
They’re an inch I think. They need to sit flush or kind of behind the furring strips. It’s the pink R3 stuff and I picked it because it’s cheap and easy.
No glue for the jack wall foam board. I had the glue, but didn’t need it. Note you need special glue for that stuff, standard glues melt it.
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Very nice! How do you climb to the upper level? Do you have a separate step stool?
I step on the lower bench, then on the counter, then up. No separate steps.
