Grummy wrote:Couple of things...
First, if you absolutely do not want to build an overhead cabinet there, you can just take layers (as many as you would like) of upholstery foam and splice /fit it in as neatly as possible, gluing it in with weldwood contact glue. (using most of your 3M type spray cans usually will droop or fall with the heat). You can put the weldwood in any old automotive spray gun and shoot both sides.
With foam in place, you can cover that with headliner materials that stretch in many directions, or sew up a boot shape that fits with attractive seams. You might even be able to make a neat looking finished project with trunk liner.
The other option for those areas is to turn it into storage. You still line the outer walls with foam like above for insulating reasons, but you run a wood lower edge across the trailer at wall height, then add a vertical "wall" that fits the ceiling contour and also a "floor" for the cabinet that fits the forward wall contours. Cut openings in the face wall of it and you have overhead storage without really having to make all those curves look perfect inside.
Realize too that the cross support does not have to be all that heavy duty as the attached vertical wall (I use nothing more than 1/4" Luan ply) will increase the bridge strength. The "Floor" portion can be reinforced by adding firing strips inside for and aft to add strength for whatever load is put in the cabinet.
Send us pictures when you get it figured out !
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