In the first six months of the year, 4,346 motorhomes were newly registered in Sweden - compared with 2,819 during the same period last year. That’s an increase of 54.7 percent, and it says something about how many Swedes are currently furnishing a second home on four wheels. And that raises a question no dealer answers at delivery: can you even hang a poster in a motorhome? The wall is thin, it vibrates at 90 kilometers per hour, it gets damp in the fall, and it already has cabinets where you’d most like to put art. The answer is yes - but only if you choose the image, mounting and format to suit the vehicle’s conditions rather than an apartment’s.
Quick facts: New motorhome registrations in Sweden increased by 54.7 percent in the first half of 2026 (4,346 versus 2,819 vehicles), while caravan registrations fell by 24.2 percent to 363. According to a Sifo survey from May 2026, 10 percent of Swedes regularly vacation in a motorhome or caravan, and a further 21 percent have done so on occasion. Sweden’s campsites have around 104,000 camping pitches and 11,000 cabins and welcome around one million guests per year.
A wall that carries weight and breathes - three conditions you don’t find in an apartment
A motorhome has three characteristics that directly affect what you can hang up. The first is weight. Curb weight and maximum payload are listed in the vehicle registration certificate, and the margin is often smaller than owners think - on many semi-integrated models, it’s a couple of hundred kilos for everything you bring along. A framed 50x70 picture with glass can weigh three to four kilos. Five of those and you’ve used up a quarter of what the family’s luggage is allowed to weigh. So paper and lightweight frames aren’t a matter of style here, but a technical necessity.
The second factor is movement. The vehicle accelerates, brakes, sways in roundabouts and vibrates over transverse cracks in the asphalt. It’s not gravity that loosens a picture in a motorhome - it’s lateral acceleration. A mounting that holds on a stationary wall won’t necessarily hold up on a drive across Öland in a crosswind.
The third is moisture. A motorhome is a confined space with people, cooking and wet outerwear in a small volume. Professional advice in the industry puts 40–60 percent relative humidity at a safe level. Above around 75 percent, mold and moisture-related bacteria start attacking materials. This applies to the interior as much as the insulation: paper that alternates between dry and damp warps, and condensation can form on the inside of a picture with glass if the temperature changes quickly.
"It’s not gravity that loosens a picture in a motorhome - it’s lateral acceleration in a roundabout."
Hanging prints in a vehicle: four methods and the only one that works while driving
Nails and screws are rarely an option. The walls usually consist of a sandwich construction with thin plywood or fiberglass-reinforced plastic on the outside of foam insulation, and drilling into it risks compromising both strength and the moisture barrier. That leaves four realistic methods.
Self-adhesive hook-and-loop tape is the most common solution among motorhome owners. The advantage is that the print can be taken down in a second before setting off. The downside is that the adhesive softens in summer heat - a parked motorhome in the sun can get considerably hotter inside than outside - and the tape can leave marks on the wall covering.
Magnetic poster hangers and wooden poster hangers are the solution best suited to a vehicle. A wooden magnetic poster hanger holds the paper in place without glass, weighs a few hundred grams, and turns the print into a flexible surface that can sway without breaking. Changing the print takes twenty seconds, which is a point in itself in a vehicle used differently in spring and in November.
Removable putty-like adhesive pads hold lightweight paper in place when stationary, but they creep in the heat and can't be trusted while driving. The fourth method - mounting the print behind an existing cabinet door or in a frame channel with strips at the top and bottom - is the only one that can really withstand the open road without being taken down.
Tip: Make hanging the print part of your departure routine instead of fighting physics. Hang it on a magnetic poster hanger, take it down and lay it flat in the garage or under the mattress before a long drive, and put it back up only once the stabilizers are down. Five seconds per print, and you avoid both shattered glass and marks on the wall covering.
Prints on four square meters of paneled wall - why the large landscape wins
In a living room, a picture competes with the sofa, bookcase, and window. In a motorhome, it competes with nothing at all, because there is barely any free space. The wall sections that are actually clear are usually narrow areas at the end of the seating area, above the bed in the alcove, and the small space between the overhead cabinets and the countertop. That means each print has to carry the whole room on its own.
Experience with vehicle interiors points in two directions. The first is open landscapes. A coastline, a horizon, a mountain, or a misty forest edge creates the illusion of depth in a space that measures three meters from end to end. Nature prints also have a practical advantage: they don't clash with the view through the window but extend it.
The other approach is pure simplicity. Minimalist posters with just a few lines and a muted color palette can hang 60 centimeters from your nose without being intrusive. In a motorhome, you never look at art from five meters away, and what works above a sofa in a three-room apartment can become visually loud when the distance is cut in half.
A third option that works especially well in traveling vehicles is cartography and destination prints. Posters featuring famous places turn the wall into a travel log. Many motorhome owners change the artwork depending on their destination – an alpine scene before a week in the mountains, a coastal scene before a trip to Bohuslän – and that rhythm calls for hanging options that can be changed in twenty seconds.
Size: why 50x70 almost always ends up in the closet
Space in a motorhome is unforgiving. The most common clear wall area in a semi-integrated motorhome is rarely more than 45 centimeters wide, because the overhead cabinets start just above the backrest of the seating area. That makes 30x40 the obvious workhorse and 21x30 the size for narrower sections by the door and kitchen end wall.
Buying a 50x70 for a motorhome is one of the most common miscalculations. The size looks reasonable in the online store, feels generous in your hands, and then fits nowhere. The exception is the alcove wall in some integrated models and the long wall in a twin-axle caravan, where a single larger picture can actually anchor the whole room – but measure before you order, and measure the space between the cabinets, not the entire wall.
The hanging height differs too. The standard rule of placing the center 145 centimeters above the floor is designed for standing viewers in a room with a 250-centimeter ceiling. In a motorhome, you are almost always sitting, and the ceiling is around 195 centimeters high. Instead, aim to place the center of the artwork at eye level for someone sitting at the dinette, which in practice means 115–125 centimeters above the floor. If you want to explore the basic principles in more detail, you can find them all in our guide to poster sizes.
November to April – winter storage is the real test
Most motorhomes and caravans are used for a couple of summer months and sit idle for the rest of the year. It is during these idle months that the interior takes a beating, and condensation is to blame.
The industry's advice is clear and counterintuitive. If you keep the vehicle in a building, you should either maintain proper indoor heating of around 20 degrees or no heat at all. The worst option is the lukewarm middle ground of five to ten degrees, because the difference between the air temperature and cold surfaces is then most favorable to condensation. If the caravan is stored outdoors, it should be left in the open so air circulates around the entire body, and a tarp lying directly against the metal is worse than no tarp at all - it traps moisture against the surface.
For the interior, that means three things. Textiles absorb moisture and should be taken out, which many people already do with seat cushions and pillows. Paper left up over winter should either be taken down and stored flat indoors or hung in a vehicle where a dehumidifier keeps the level between 40–60 percent. If you use a dehumidifier in low temperatures, an adsorption dehumidifier is the type that works, because compressor-based models lose effectiveness in the cold.
The simplest way to protect them over winter is therefore to treat the prints like textiles: take them down in October, lay them flat between two sheets of cardboard in an indoor closet, and put them back up when the season starts. The same applies to art in a summer cottage and in a mountain cabin, where the same shifts between heated and unheated conditions wear down the paper.
A caravan and a motorhome are not the same problem
The statistics clearly distinguish the two markets: motorhome numbers are rising sharply, while caravan sales fell by 24.2 percent in the first half of 2026, partly because caravan buyers are more sensitive to economic conditions. But the difference is also practical and directly affects how you decorate.
A caravan sits on a lot for most of the season. It has more free wall space, often a whole end wall without cabinets, and is not exposed to acceleration forces more than a couple of times a year. There, you can actually treat the wall almost like a wall at home and hang a larger picture permanently. A motorhome, on the other hand, moves every week, has less free space, and requires a removable approach.
The result is that caravan owners can easily create a small collection on the end wall - three 30x40 prints with ten centimeters between them, preferably in the same wooden frame to tie the look together - while motorhome owners should instead opt for one or two prints that are easy to take down. The rule for spacing between prints is the same as in a regular room: the gap should be narrower than the short side of the prints; otherwise, the eye reads them as separate pictures rather than a group.
Frequently asked questions about art in motorhomes and caravans
A motorhome is basically a home that happens to have wheels, and there’s no reason to let the walls look like an unoccupied show home just because space is limited. Choose lightweight, choose removable, measure the space between the cabinets, and change the artwork with the seasons. Explore our nature prints and the handy wooden magnetic poster hangers when planning for the next season – and read more about the scale of the camping industry at Svensk Camping and moisture-safe winter storage at If.