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Oh, it's always fun until someone puts an eye out.

I would have killed to have one of these as a kid.

weeeeeeeeeeee!

Great for kids with no garden.

it's great, but please -- not head first!!!

I want one!

Maybe I can built one for my chihuahuas.

I hate to sound like the worry wart grandpa here but...
most of us have hard enough time walking and chewing gum. I hate to think what yakking on the phone and descending the stairs might bring about here. How about an extra hand rail at least?

On the plus side, that would make a fantastic laundry chute.
The whole basket, all at once, WHOOSH!

When I was a kid we had carpeted stairs with a landing at the bottom. We'd pile all available sofa cushions and pillows at the bottom on the landing, then grab sleeping bags and ride them all the way down. Nobody broke anything major!

Still - this idea seems simpler and a good way to get the kids to hurry downstairs to breakfast! :-)

I have to point out though - if that house had really been built for a house with kids (and not the lovely display photo), there wouldn't have been a glass handrail. That thing would never, ever be clean!

Looks dangerous. I cannot imagine raising kids with that going on.

This may not pass muster with the AT Safety Police, but I think it looks fun. If you look back on your childhood, I'm sure you will remember devising all manner of much more dangerous (and fun!) activities. Merry-go-rounds and teeter-totters, alas, are too hazardous for today's precious children.

If you look closely, it seems like the danger of approaching the staircase and accidentally taking a tumble down the slide is diminished by the approach being from the left-hand, stair-having side. On the right it looks like the wall is set back a bit.

What a great house to grow up in!

Why are so many people nowadays wanting to bubble wrap the entire house "for the children"? You know, walking into furniture hurts. And as a child, if you do it once, you learn to avoid doing it again.

And if you grow up coddled, and can't figure out at 18 that jumping from the second floor roof to a trampoline than you are my cousin not going to get far in life without a helmet.

In a lighter note, I love the slide! And want one.

I would definitely be tempted to try some sort of an on-the-go getting dressed on the slide thing... Pants at top, slip into them, slide down, feet go into heels, cup of tea and sweater waiting at the bottom.

In reality... I would probably just get bored and slide down instead of doing homework...

I have always wanted to do this. I used to live in a double in New Orleans with a winding beautiful staircase on each side. I dreamed of breaking through to the apartment next door to create a single and turning one of the staircases into a giant slide.

Whoa, that whole treacherous staircase/ death slide combo looks like a good way to become a child-free household. I wonder if either of those kids will make it down alive.

That's supposed to be for kids? Hell, I want one now!

thatjessicagirl...
Did we hang out as kids? I grew up the youngest of 6, and we did the same thing! Sometimes we even used suitcases...the old school hard shell kind (I have no idea where my mom was while this happened). I think it's a wonderful idea...so much creative potential with this design! I'm sad to see so many people worried about this -- kids who are allowed to take risks are able to learn what they are and are not capable of doing.

Well, you'd need a really wide staircase to start with, because the steps would need to be at least 30 inches or so wide apart from the slide...

Kids (past toddler age, anyhow) are durable. You could put a soft rug at the base if worried about landings.

I would trip and fall on this, almost for sure -- I have trouble with stairs (handicap related) so not for me, but it sure would be great for moving boxes -- OUT, not IN! ;^)

The trouble *I* forsee is "helping" the pets go down, whether they want to or not. With fragile house rabbits having easily broken bones, that could be fatal. So probably best for a pet-free home... (Although I suppose there are some dogs that might enjoy a slide...)