Looks great, but the crowning achievement of the Antilop is the easy clean-up, and by applying contact paper you create crevices where there were none before. Fail.

I think this was done with paint. Did you see the tree on the wall with the electrical panel disguised with the birdhouse? That is some mad talent.

I wouldn't add contact paper to my baby's chair- I would be too worried about his exposure to the phthalates in the paper.

Looks cool though.

Design-wise, I'd personally like something different, I don't know what, just not the black and white checks.

We have an Antilop, and I love it.
Idea wise, I love this. Functionality makes me cringe thinking of the edges and all the trapped food, plus when the corners/edges inevitably lift and my daughter notices before me!!

I actually made a padded cushion for our chair out of oilcloth, and that's been great. I made a matching over-sized splat mat too. They just hose down, and make the chair a little interesting (at least to me!).

It would be interesting to see it in person, but like pp have said, this seems to defeat the marvelous advantage of the antilop - the easy clean. It would certainly work well until self-feeding comes into play, though. And I suppose a new tray is only $5, although replacing a hardly used tray after a couple of months seems wasteful. The checks also makes me a little dizzy; but to each their own.

I had planned on making a soft cover for the back (a la hnhkt, above) but never got around to it and decided it was best after enjoying the highchair's wipeability. Friends and family who originally rolled their eyes at the antilop and instead purchased one of the expensive, oversized, and upholstered models have since seen how lovely a molded plastic surface is!

lizardrebel is right, this place is pretty amazing.

I encourage you to do a spot on the nursery (or have you?) It's one of the best I've seen in a while, right down to the retro white phone, sweet toy! I liked so many parts of this apt. more than the checked high chair, it's really nice.

I think lizardrebel is right, paint would make a lot more sense than contact paper. I wish I had known about the Antilop before now. I have a 16 month old and we're on our third high chair. Started with one of those awful giant ones, then got a booster, and finally a restaurant style high chair which I actually love. Makes me cringe to think that I've spent 3 times what this costs, and this would have been the perfect thing from the very start. Boo.

Forget about the high chair-the house that it's in is gorgeous! And they have the sweetest play kitchen in the world-in their real kitchen! Right next to this chair actually. It's on the second page...I didn't even realize it was a pretend kitchen until I looked at it for a couple of seconds...haha