Matt Bettman has long been fascinated with well-designed, small spaces — he and his wife lived on boats years ago.

“I’ve always loved small, efficient spaces,” he says.

After becoming parents to two kids, the couple eventually moved into a more traditional home in Redwood City, he says, where Bettman had a garage for the first time. Naturally, that meant the industrial designer needed a tinkering project to fill it. That project became building a custom teardrop trailer, aimed at adding comfort to his family’s frequent camping outings.

After a few years, his trailer was done, essentially adding to the camping experience a queen-size indoor bed on wheels, with an outdoor kitchen attached to the back. The end result was lightweight (around 1,060 pounds) and could be towed by cars lacking

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