Royal Flair creates New Home

The family behind Royal Flair caravans, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, has launched a new brand designed to take advantage of the latest trend in smooth fibreglass caravans with slick, gloss white interiors.

Located next door to Royal Flair’s factory in Campbellfield, Victoria, the new company was set up by the siblings of Royal Flair founder, Peter Deralas, who built traditional aluminium caravans under the New Home banner from the mid-1970s until starting Royal Flair in the early-'90s.

Royal Flair was taken over by his son, Bill, in 1996, and now Bill together with sisters Gina and Christine, have revived the New Home name with a new four-model line-up, which was on display at last week’s South Australian Caravan & Camping Show in Adelaide.

Bill Deralas said after Royal Flair opened a new factory to produce the latest fibreglass Piazza model fitted with the innovative Sky-Deck front verandah, the opportunity arose to create a new line of modern, fibreglass caravans.

New Home Caravans currently offers a wide range of caravans and pop-tops, under four model names: the Bliss, Prominence, Poise, and range-topping High View with the Sky-Deck verandah.

The vans take advantage of modern construction techniques and materials including fibreglass-clad sandwich panel walls and flat-pack furniture utilising Melamine-faced particle board, while chassis options include galvanised or Supagal steel with leaf spring suspension.

“We buy the sandwich panel wall from over in Europe,” he said. “It’s an NCE wall but sourced from Italy, so that’s something a bit different. It’s fully insulated, with timber support wherever we want to screw our furniture in.”

As well as being hail resistant, the fibreglass panels also “gives you that clean finish” not found on the traditional aluminium and Meranti timber-constructed vans in the Royal Flair range.

New Home doesn’t quote any weights on its website, but Bill Deralas admits the vans are not designed to be light weight.

“The walls itself will add about 37kg on the van, but the insulation helps keep the van cooler in summer and warmer in winter,” he said.

Of the four models on display in Adelaide, prices ranged from $42,490 for an entry-level 17ft Prominence pop-top with air-conditioning, to $69,990 for a well-equipped 21ft High View toilet/shower model with Sky-Deck.

New Home has five dealers located in Victoria, South Australia, NSW and Queensland, only two of which also sell Royal Flair caravans. Like Royal Flair, the new company has the “ISO 9001 Certification” tick of approval.

New Home caravans will be on display at the Melbourne Caravan, Camping & Touring Supershow from March 7-12.