Cool kids furniture

Designer children's furniture is something I love and yet hate at the same time. I love the clever thinking and beautiful aesthetics but hate the high price tags. And I love the creative approach to redesigning something that already exists. A play table can be fresh, new and offer a twist, or scope for further functionality and creativity by being designed slightly differently. Not to mention just more fun that your regular run of the mill table. So even if I have a perfectly functioning table and chair arrangement for B and Little Miss, I find myself wanting something else. Like this deskhouse with pencil holder chimney by nine to nine.

Or these letter storage stools from Art can break your heart.

And what about this beautiful range of furniture from BM2000
These bedside cabinets with faces are adorable characters.

Little Miss would love to sleep in a pink fairy castle bunk bed.

Or I am sure she would be happy sleeping on top of a rainbow bunk bed.

Both my kids have grown out of being in a cot, but this one is so funky and it converts to a toddler then adult bed.

There is something about designer children's furniture that encapsulates childhood. And when I think about it there are many parallels between designer children's furniture and the kids themselves.

The furniture is small in size - just like the little people.

The furniture is happy, fun and makes you smile - kids laugh so much more than any of the adults I know.

The furniture is often adaptable- just like kids, sometimes much more than we give them credit for.

The furniture is often brightly and playfully coloured - anyone who has children knows they can be very very loud, as well as have a wardrobe full of brightly coloured clothes, not ever to be mixed in with a white washing load of Dad's shirts.

But the problem with little people is that they turn into big people, stop laughing and eventually leave the home containing all the expensive children's furniture.

So I guess that's why Ikea is so successful.