The Home Crowd

Duck Hunt, the leading sign that your lawn has gotten beyond your control…

Two years ago, we came across the ‘Doc’, a couch which transformed into bunk beds – Link.

Resource Furniture, a NYC store has brought the ‘Doc’ and many other transformative pieces of furniture here to the U.S.  Some of the pieces seem to be much more than traditional murphy beds.  Instead of simplified hideaway beds, many of their pieces are transformed into couches, seating, desks…

Oh sure, this seems perfect for small, cramped, new york city apartments.  But is it worthwhile for the average suburban home?  Depends on the way you use your space I suppose.  Maybe you have a den or office which would be better suited as a guest bedroom around the holidays.  Certainly, you can pop up an aerobed in a few minutes, and wedge out a little space amongst the clutter, or plan your space around a permanent guest bed, taking up precious floor space like the giant elephant in the room it is.  Or you can have both, I suppose.

Check out the space saving furniture, as well as other “non-transforming” pieces at their website – Link

Although, technically, flipping a mattress is kind of like transforming.

I need to call in a price this “Ares” desk set they have.

At 9 feet high, and 15 feet wide, it just may need to be stretched across two walls as shown above.  At that size, you could park your car on it quite comfortably.  It’s 250 bucks from Urban Collector – Link, and who knows, maybe if they release the original trilogy in giant wall decals, you could potentially wallpaper your entire living/great room.  Your friends/spouses/loved ones may never let you live it down, but that’s the price you pay for awesomeness I suppose. ..at least it’s not star trek.

At First, I was ready to chalk this up to the most ridiculous item of the day.  The Eames Lounge chair, with accompanying ottoman…. for kids!?!  Kids won’t get it, they won’t understand that this piece of furniture is one of modern design’s greatest of all time.  Little Nest offers this up along with a fine assortment of children’s modern furniture.  This pint size re-creation sells for $900 – Link.

That’s crazy, right?  900 bucks for a kid’s chair?  They’ll likely spend more time building a fort out of the box it ships in.

Depends…  I don’t have any clue of what furniture I want to be surrounded by for the rest of my days.  I do know however, I would like the Eames Lounge chair to be in there somewhere.  Nowadays, a full size replica plus ottoman goes for about $3900 from Design Within Reach in an assortment of colors and finishes – Link.

When my budget allows for it, it’ll become part of the family.  Also, the most carefully wrapped piece of furniture I’ll ever move I suppose.  That is, unless the miniature Eames Lounge isn’t sufficiently bubble wrapped.

Ahh, yes, more desktop ornament than functional setpiece, the MoMA store has it for $670 – Link.  At six inches tall, it might be the most expensive cellphone stand you ever buy…

But back to the kids.

The good thing is, for a considerable price, their formative years can be spent coloring while sitting in their favorite chair.

The bad news is… each of the chairs shown above only come in white, so your children will also be coloring ON the chairs.