for the last few weeks I have been working on some kid’s furniture. I have been thinking about designing some kid’s furniture for some time now. The push came from a chance meeting via email with Sheri Doyle at Franklin Goose. She runs a website dedicated to all things kids and eco-friendly. Ask if I would be interested in designing some piece for there website, I said yes of course. So my first piece of kid’s furniture was a miniture version of my PHILA chair-
I am getting ready to make another one of these, but an exact version for the Architectural Digest Home Show in NYC. But for my next venture into kids furniture I made this 5 drawer dresser-
First, please excuse the blue tape handles, I haven’t quite figured out what I want to do there yet. But the whole dresser is made out of eco-friendly plywood, with white Milk Paint and safety orange chalkboard paint. That’s right chalkboard paint, so the kids can draw all over this baby and not get into trouble. As if the cool chalkboard on the sides and drawer front wasn’t enough cool for you yet, check this out. KALA studios teamed up with artist Dalyn Montgomery to do this-
That’s right, so when a kid opens his or her drawers there will be a painted scene on the side. Of course they can choose what they would like to have, but for the first one ever we choose sea turtles. So what do you think?
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I love the dresser and I’m looking forward to seeing what you do for pulls. The orange chalkboard paint is particularly cool.
You should be more careful who you collaberate with. I hear that guy is nuts.
How about some designs that include new and useful features? For example, I built this toy organizer that gets the kids to pick up their own toys for my grandchildren. It does it by keeping the other toys until my grandson puts one back.
While a lot of “modern” children’s furniture looks really nice, it doesn’t stay that way once it is buried under a pile of toys or you can’t get to it without stepping on toy clutter.
What do you think?
Thanks guys for the comments: Rick- I like the cabinet that you made. It’s a cool idea- I don’t think that it would fit in to what I do. I think that the feature that you have come up with is more for the parents than the kids. I agree that no furniture be it modern or traditional looks good with toys all over the place. But that’s what kids do, I’d rather teach my kids to pick up after themselves than limit what or how many toys they can play with.