This is not so much a design-compromise as design by those who don’t use MHs.  If you stand at the cooker, the TV cupboard is in your face.  If you’re more than 5ft 5, it’s a definite head-banger.

We’ll tell you how to assess the problem, remove the cupboard, shorten it, put it back, prepare for a 240v socket near the kitchen surface for the kettle, and then have a cup of tea.

Included in the solution is the relocation of the TV above the dinette back-cushions – without screwing into the lovely wood above them.

Empty cupboard and adjacent one.  Remove screws and take TV cupboard off the wall.  Slice off 3 or so inches at the back.  Remove rubber edging from front.  Saw it to same curve as other cupboards.

Remove electric fittings in ceiling.  Cap the 12 v wires.  Extend 240 wires by two or so feet to enable a new socket to be fitted near the hob.  Hide these wires in bottom of adjacent cupboard for the time being.

Replace all wood etc.  Before screwing to ceiling insert a piece of string-like stuff to enable the door to be kept under control in a later job.

Now you have a useful, non-head-banging cupboard for dishes and glassses.

Use the seat-belt ironwork to hold a piece of ply on which you mount your tv.

 

As part of the running around looking at MHs in recent years, we noticed the 'in-your-face' problem in other MHs and PCVs.  Adria panel-van conversions were the same and your back was against the bathroom wall.  Anyway, we noticed at the NEC in October 2008 that Adria has redesigned the problem away.