Small space furniture is just getting smarter and smarter and I'm so glad to see that CMP fave furniture maker P'kolino is getting in on it with their new Klick table and chair set for kids.
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I'm in favor of pulling out all the stops to decorate my children's rooms beautifully. But since a little redecorating is inevitable between preschool and high school, that means choosing furniture with some built-in flexibility.
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I kind of wish Kiersten Hathcock of Mod Mom Furniture would stop making so many cool new things for kids because frankly, our we don't have the room for all of it.
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Have you ever entered a room in which the kids have been playing
(usually too quietly) only to find that they have rearranged all the couch
and chair cushions so that they can walk (tumble, jump) around the
entire room without stepping on the (enchanted quicksand) floor? It isn't pretty, although it
does look like fun.
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I am not of the mindset that children's furniture should be serious - or any furniture for that matter. Give me some bright lime green plastic dining room seats over a set of stern Teutonic stiff-backed chairs any day. Oh wait, I already have them.
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It is not generally cheap to go green. I mean sure, compact fluorescent bulbs can save you money in the long run and hybrid cars make sense with gas prices these days. But we all know that feeding the kids the organic mac n cheese and decorating the nursery with sustainable bamboo furniture is not exactly for bargain hunters.
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A high chair isn't exactly the kind of baby gear you think you'll fall in love with. A crib, perhaps. A diaper bag, absolutely. But that eyesore in the middle of your dining room that you will spend the next 30 or so months of your life scraping dried baby food and milk-soaked Cheerios from? I think of it more as a necessary evil.
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Say "bean bag chair" and my mind flashes back to 1975, an image of a shiny vinyl blob sitting on shag carpeting. I can even conjure up the squeaking sound it made when I landed on it.
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It isn't often that the kids and I both love a piece of furniture. To them, furniture isn't something to covet but something on which to climb, or at best, throw their stuff.
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One of the cooler finds of ours from the recent International Contemporary Furniture Fair were the very amazing bObles tumbling animals out Denmark. Of course! Because what is Denmark if not homebase for playful, modern design that I absolutely have to have immediately. (Sorry Sweden.)
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Since having kids, I'm definitely understanding the joys of multipurpose kids furniture. One of the latest entrants into the category is the Lojoball, which comes courtesy of those clever Brits.
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