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…