Creating Backyard Bohemia with Gypsy Caravans

June 21, 2011

Whether used as a guest house, studio, or a playhouse to exceed a child’s wildest dreams, a gypsy caravan will instantly transform your backyard into a mysterious world of its own.

None pull this off quite as well as the caravans from Les Verdines, a French husband-wife design duo that restores old caravans and fills them with whimsical fabrics, colors, and…

Rachel Faucett designs children clothes and runs Handmade Charlotte, a blog about design and vintage for children. She lives on a farm just outside of Atlanta with her husband and their five children.

Handmade Charlotte began with a few bolts of vintage fabric and a string of late nights making clothes for her daughters Isabella and Charlotte after everyone had gone to bed. Rachel had been selling antiques at the markets for several years with a strong focus on items for children and moving into clothing was a natural progression.