Before & After: A Beloved Family Camper Gets a Minty Fresh Makeover
Lauren Garcia used to have sleepovers in the RV as a kid. Now, she and her husband revived the 1977 trailer for their own adventures.
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As a child, when Lauren Garcia would visit her grandmother’s vacation home in Aldinga, a small beach town in South Australia, she and her cousins knew where the best place to hang out was: a 1977 camper parked in the driveway. "It was always a great time," says Lauren of those visits. Bought for $500 more than thirty five years ago, it didn’t move around much, but had plenty of space for sleepovers.
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Melissa Dalton
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Melissa Dalton is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, who has been writing for Dwell since 2017. Read more of her work about design and architecture at melissadalton.net.
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