Airstream Trailer Converted Into a Nifty Garden Shop in Costa Mesa, California

by Paul Hart, Staff Writer

In Costa Mesa, California, an old Airstream Trailer has been converted into a garden shop.  Compared to the usual size of shops, this is really a small business!  Set up in a shopping area called “The Camp”, on Bristol in Costa Mesa, the garden shop specializes in landscape and garden planning, as well as selling plants and garden accessories.  The focus is to plant eco-friendly species that have lower water requirements.  It’s fun to see the uses put to old Airstreams, I don’t think their original designers had any inkling of the many ideas that would bubble up to make something very special out of an old trailer.

Watch the short video on youtube, click here.

Or watch the embedded version below.

Another Airstream trailer was converted into a custom bicycle shop at a shopping center across the street from “The Camp”.  This place is called “The Lab” and is billed as an “anti-mall”.  It’s really just a cool, hip shopping center, with restaurants that lean toward vegetarian, and fashion and craft shops.  Also seen on this property is a record store, selling old LPs out of another converted Airstream.  The owners of these two centers must be scouring the countryside for the old trailers, and then they are doing a bang-up job of fixing them up as small retail shops.  Watch the video of the custom bike shop, click here.

Or, watch the embedded version below.  Thanks to Big Fun Video for the footage.