CULTURE
TINY HOMES
Van life
These Dubai-made campers have us dreaming of living the van life
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here’s an undeniable appeal to the #vanlife lifestyle: no 9-to-5 schedule, plenty of time in the great outdoors, and every parking place (according to TikTok) is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen. Thanks to Freedom Overland, many UAE residents are one step closer to making that lifestyle a reality. Faisal Husain has been interested in ‘overlanding’ for over half a decade. He’s built vehicles, made lots of
mistakes, learned from them, and continued to make tweaks. By the time he built his third van, he had reached a turning point. What had begun as a personal project to transform a vehicle into a livable unit was becoming a business. That business is converting Land Cruiser’s (and similar models) into custom-built homes on wheels. He now finds himself with a queue of clients, a workshop and showroom in Al Quoz,
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