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Outward Mobility: Clever Campers, Trailers & DIY Mobile Home Conversions

The 20th-century American dream of suburban houses and picket fences unfolded in parallel with another vision: freedom to roam, embodied in camper vans and other mobile housing designs. The ...

VisionVenture: Luxury 3D-Printed Camper Van of the Future

Campers are cool and all, but they’re almost always too bulky for off-road travel, and they guzzle a lot of gas. But what if you could fit all the bells and whistles of a well-appointed RV into ...

Blade Rollers: 11 Retro-Style Knife Sharpener Vans

Charming and quaint hand-painted knife sharpener vans are one of the few remaining holdouts from the golden age of hand-delivered household services. There's never a dull moment when the ...

Stealth Campers and DIY RVs: 15 Creatively Converted Vans

Lurking in a windowless white van gets significantly less creepy when you’ve custom-outfitted the interior with wood flooring, storage space, a kitchenette and a queen-sized bed - right? At ...

Hippie Bus for the 21st Century: DIY Solar Volkswagen Camper Van

Iconic for its role in the counterculture movement of the 1960s, the Volkswagen Bus has seen many an amateur transformation into campers over the decades since, and now it’s gone solar ...

World’s First All-Electric Mobile Office Built Into a Nissan Van

Who wants to sit in a stale, noisy central office when they could take their job - not to mention the coffee maker - on the go instead? This Nissan vehicle houses the world’s first all-electric ...

VW Doubleback: Hacked Camper Van Unfolds into Huge Mobile Home

The recent comeback of modernized (and modified) mobile homes has seen many novel transformations of cars and trucks into various sizes of living space, but the Doubleback may have more secret ...

Van Gogh’s Iconic Bedroom Brought to Life & Available to Rent

The Art Institute of Chicago has brought one of the most famous paintings of Vincent Van Gogh to life like never before: a complete replica realized in three dimensions and available as a rental ...

Crash Pads: Sleeper Vans Let You Stay in NYC for $20 a Night

Hotel rooms in Manhattan cost hundreds and even a cheap hostel-style hotel with partition walls in the Bowery runs nearly $100 per night, but starting around $20 you can stay on the streets in ...

Don’t Come Knocking: 21 Vans That Are Definitely Rocking

When one thinks of painted vans, they immediately envision the 1960's and 1970's Volkswagen van covered flowers, and weighed down by lounging hippies. Banish these thoughts from your mind, as we ...

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