ESCAPE VAN HAVEN

Staycation in style with a new generation of chic caravans, campervans and mobile homes

- Gillian Welsh

It’s official: caravans and campervans are cool. Forget whatever horrors you might have experienced in the past, on childhood holidays to Ayr or Leven – the damp and grotty, those scratched veneered surfaces and ill-fitting curtains you could spit peas through: nowadays, you can get a covetable state-of-the-art conversion with no whiff of the dank past.

Kitted out in custom-made fittings and funky upholstery (leopard print, ditsy florals), the humble mobile home has never looked so good, or functioned so well. Yes, there’s still the question of what to do when it rains. But staying in and playing rummy as the rain drums down is a lot more enjoyable in a stylish, well-laid-out interior.

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