High Roller
VW Bus T4&5+|Issue 95
I’ve seen a few dark wood and luxurious interiors, often in steampunk themed vans, but let me introduce you to dark-toned luxury, on a thoroughly up to date and contemporary scale
Anne Rogers
High Roller
If you were at the NEC Motorhome shows in February or October last year, or at a number of other shows through the summer of 2019, you may well have seen the stunning T6 that is Rolling Homes’ ‘Edition 10’, built to celebrate the company’s tenth anniversary.

Rolling Homes is a family business, based in Shropshire and their aim is that every campervan they produce is bespoke and unique. They’ll build a traditional layout, or they’ll do something totally different if that’s what the customer orders. So, when Mark Cooper, Rolling Homes’ founder, decided to build their ultimate luxury campervan with everything on it as a PR and show van for their anniversary year, he gave himself free rein to quite literally include everything that he likes!

He wanted to build something totally decadent, not necessarily focussing on keeping it practical.

The primary aim was going for the WOW factor. With forty years of cabinet building and design experience behind him, the challenge was creating something which was completely bespoke, a one-off build that will never be replicated. The planning took a long time. The finished van is based on the very familiar side kitchen layout. But that’s pretty much all that is standard on this bus!

The list of ‘what’s on it’ is a long one—almost a full page of A4. When it was first built, Mark said he stopped counting the build cost when they reached £100,000, but over last summer he did all the sums and they add up to almost £120,000 for the fixtures and fittings alone, some of which had to be imported specifically for this build—and that’s not including the cost of actually building it, which took months of painstaking work. Or the months of planning beforehand, come to that.

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