In 2016, industrial photographer Kelly Kline and her partner, Symantha Reenders, have been impressed to purchase a traditional camper after seeing a lot of on their 10-day freeway journey from Seattle to San Francisco. The couple started actively searching the web and attended quite a few RV rallies nevertheless thought plenty of the newer ones didn’t look pleasing, cool, or sexy.
Six years later, Kline and Reenders are the proud homeowners of three refurbished traditional campers with their very personal distinct personalities. They launched a camper rental agency, Traditional Ventures, this month as an extension to their manufacturing studio and event space in downtown Atlanta, Treehouse Studios.
“We started attempting, and we merely didn’t love the trendy ones,” Kline tells AD. “They’re in order that ugly and haven’t any character. All of them look the similar, and they also’re all brown. We merely wished one factor with further character, and that’s how we fell into it.”
The wives not too way back unveiled their latest addition, The Alma, a 30-foot prolonged luxurious suite initially manufactured throughout the Fifties. For this enterprise, that that they had some help from an unusual provide—Lil Jon. They appeared on the HGTV residence enchancment sequence Lil Jon Must Do What to collaborate with the Grammy-winning producer/DJ and builder Anitra Mecadon on giving the rusted, three-room automotive they purchased off eBay, in 2019, sight unseen, a whole makeover.
