The Lettered Cottage

You are here: Home / Featured Posts / Camp Tent

Camp Tent

By

Welcome to day 4 of Wandawega Week!

Today’s post features another area of Camp Wandawega– Tent Hill.

This area of David and Tereasa’s rustic resort is home to a collection of vintage, perfectly weathered, Boy Scout tents.

These aren’t just regular ol’ tents. They’re more like canvas cabins…

After a 5 year search, David and Tereasa found a source for the vintage tents and the wood platforms they originally sat on…

They also picked up the original, vintage metal bed frames, mattresses, and tent poles that went with them…

Here’s how Tereasa describes her tent budget breakdown:

3 tents: $20 each

9 platforms: $5 each

6 vintage Boy Scout beds: $5 each

Creating your very own Boy Scout tent village: Priceless.

And speaking of Tereasa’s love affair with vintage collections- if you’d like to throw your name in the (virtual) hat for a chance to win a signed copy of Tereasa’s newly-released book, “Found, Free & Flea“, just leave us a comment on this post between now and tomorrow (Friday, August 12, 2011) at noon (Central Time)!

And don’t forget to swing by tomorrow for the final Wandawega Week post…you’re not gonna “wannamissit”!

PS- If you missed any of this week’s Wandawega posts- you can find them here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3!

Click here to subscribe

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Marsha

    Love a great garage or estate sale! Junking with my best friend; doesn’t get any better than that!

  3. Stephanie

    I LOVE LOVE LOVE this series, it absolutely motivates me to find the beauty in already used items. What a great legacy these two are leaving!

  5. Mary Lynn

    My daughter stayed in tents like those at girl scout camp on Lake Martin. Kamp Kiwanis. Love the post!

  6. Jenny

    I am loving this week’s posts, I’ve even gotten my dad on board to build our little guy a treehouse! 🙂 Some of my most favorite childhood memories were at summer camp, so this series has my decorating AND nostalgic sides in overdrive :)Some. Thank you for sharing Layla!

  7. Sas

    This place is full of suprises. How many more are there to come? Their vision to create a special place is wonderful.

  9. Jen

    I am loving this week’s posts! Some of my most favorite childhood memories are of summer camp, so my decorating and nostalgic sides are in overdrive 😉 Thanks for sharing Layla!

  18. Karen B. from Saskatchewan

    Would love a copy of Teareasa’s book! Looks like my kind of “something from nothing’ thinking.

  22. jo h.

    Why does summer have to rush by? Looking at those glorious photos made me want to kick off my shoes, put on the bug spray and remember life is good!

  30. heidi s.

    What an amazing place and what a vision! Great talent and the book looks beautiful! Would love to win this beauty!

  31. Rhonda Irizarry

    Oh gosh, I’ve enjoyed this whole week, but loving this fourth day of Wandawega Week, There are so many fond memories when looking at each tent,a little piece of childhood comes surfacing. Thanks for all the fun, I’ve enjoyed myself. Where else could a person view such a magical place while sitting in their pjs at 11:30 at night.. Awesomeness. 🙂

  32. Wendy

    Thank you for posting this, my beloved Grandpa was a Scout leader and operated an Apple Orchard in Maine. He had a bunch of those tents and I remember how cool it was that my brother and the rest of the troop got to camp by the creek, Vintage is just so cool.

  33. Debora J

    We love found, free and flea! The search is always so much fun but just the start of it all. Then we get to decorate…………love it!

  36. Rene' H

    Your posts are so fun! I look forward to reading your blogs— thanks for sharing. I would love to win this book!.

  39. Cindy Chapman

    This post brought back happy childhood memories of camping at Lake Martin in a family-sized tent on a platform. Thanks!

  42. Merritt

    I have been so inspired by Tereasa’s style this week, just beautiful! Found, Flee and Free, now those are just words after my own heart! Sign me up!

  43. karen

    Layla,
    I love your blog- your enthusiasm is contagious, just wish your energy was too! You guys get so much done!! This week’s posts on Wandawega Week are terrific! David and Tereasa have created such a wonderful place. Can I move there?? I would love to get a copy of her book!

  44. pat konzen

    Yeppers! Love the BoyScout camp beds!
    My husband took our little guy on his first BoyScout campout with Daddy’s original BS tent(his was canvas and orange) from way back.

  45. Dianne Callahan

    Please throw my name in the hat! I am in love with tent hill by the way. Every 4th of July we host “Camp Callahan” where our whole family pitches tents and camps out in our backyard. It would be so cool to have a tent cabin like theirs!!

  46. Jes

    I’d love to win and I could definitely use the inspiration. We decorate based on “free” or “cheap” but our stuff never turns out as fun and cool as this.

  47. Fran R

    Oh man, those tents brought such a feeling of nostalgia it almost makes me cry!!!! They remind me of my childhood. Just the looks, the items around and in them. It’s like being at my Grandparents house!!!!!!!!!!! I love this blog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  48. Brandy

    Teresa is awesome!!! I would love to have one of her books!!! I checked the local bookstore here and they don’t carry any of her books.

  50. Vonda L

    I’m so enjoying the Wandawega series. What eye candy that all is! Gotta love it when frugal and vintage meets great design.