A trio of style-conscious millenials have revealed how they’ve managed to make a static holiday caravan – famous for their wobbly walls and dated interiors – look so trendy that tourists are willing to spend £200 a night staying in it. 

Whinnie Williams, Anna Hart and Emma Jane Palin, all in their thirties and with successful careers in fashion, travel and interiors, wanted to invest in a bricks and mortar holiday rental they could rent out on but didn’t have the funds to realise their dreams.

Instead, spurred on by the nostalgia of childhood holidays on caravan sites, they decided to club together – at the height of the pandemic – and buy a three-bedroom Willerby 2010 Bluebird static caravan, chipping in just £8,000 each. 

Undeterred by the enduring image problem that mobile homes have, the trio spent another £4,000 each giving the property an almighty makeover. 

Alongside a new roof, they also visually refreshed every part of the caravan, with the Palms Springs-inspired revamp including a bamboo bedroom inspired by a boudoir in Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion, a stylish charcoal green kitchen and a pink-hued bedroom that incorporates faux cowhide and Wild West wallpaper. 

The caravan sits on the Birchington Vale site, just ten minutes’ drive from hipster magnet Margate, where the three women live. An Instagram profile, @clubjupiteruk, has crept up to 10,000 followers in less than a year. 

Using their respective skills – Williams is an interior Amazon AWS VCC designer, former fashion editor Hart is a specialist in ethical travel and Palin a consultant in art and design – they set about transforming the staid interiors into something much cooler.  

The soft furnishings in the living room area were replaced with authentic Seventies fabrics and the ceiling lined with wood.Bamboo features heavily in one of the bedrooms, which, says Hart, wasn’t easy to obtain during lockdown. 

There’s trendy products in the bijou bathroom although Hart says they have had to warn people not to expect a power shower. 

Since the first guests bedded down in the caravan, now called Club Jupiter, in July stays there have been in high demand, and the trio are now considering similar sites where they can work their magic. 

Anna, from Belfast, says childhood camping holidays inspired the trio to try and make caravans cool.      

‘Growing up my family holidays were in soggy 1980s tents on Lough Erne, but my cousins had a fancy caravan, and so my first real sense of ‘luxury travel’ was a caravan at Juniper Hill on the Antrim Coast.

‘Camping has become glamping, and we’ve seen mid-priced hotels being named ’boutique hotels’, we’re just doing the same for the caravan.’ 

Explaining how they decided to take the plunge, Anna told FEMAIL they were dispirited by the fact Margate was becoming overrun with airbnb landlords trying to cash in on the town’s appeal as a weekend destination.

She says: ‘Essentially we’re three friends who really love each other’s tastes in design, and really believed in each other’s professional abilities. 

‘When we began meeting for weekly coffee mornings early in the pandemic, to support and encourage each other through a tricky time, we didn’t intend to go into business together. 

‘But when we hit on the idea of renovating a caravan, and crunched the numbers, I knew it was the perfect low-risk, high-pleasure business venture with my mates.’

Hart told FEMAIL that the fellow caravan owners on the Birchington Vale site have been ‘friendly and supportive’, realising the women were serious about the project ‘when we arrived at 7am to work on it’. 

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