Such a smart idea! Instead of pencil hash-marks and scribbled dates on the trim of a kitchen door, Boom Design has developed the Measurement Shelf, a piece of furniture that lets you keep an easy record the kids' ever-changing height using the integrated measuring stick that makes up one leg of this unit.
It only comes in white/orange, so if you are over orange, this might not be the shelf for you, but the 4 side access do make the Measurement Shelf a versatile piece of furniture for small spaces. This retails for $315.00, and utter disbelief over how fast your kids are growing up is not included.
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Comments (7)
i like it, but i so love the tradition of scribbled marks on a door. we recently visited my husband's childhood home - it has since been converted into a restaurant, but the height marks were still there in the original kitchen door, 30 years later! the staff loved them.
Totally agree with Sally. This is cute, but I love the door marks. My parents recently moved, and took the whole pantry door with them, which had 20 years and five kids' worth of height markers.
I love the door mark idea also. Our problem is that we are transferred quite often and are only able to rent right now. While this peice is cute, it still isn't what I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a nice (paper or wood) growth chart that could easily be transported from place to place when we move?
dcmom - an idea i came up with a few years ago was for a cloth (maybe felt?) growth chart that could hang from grommets on simple cup hooks (the hooks should always be placed at the same height on the wall at each new location). at every measurement a button can sewn on to the fabric to mark the height. you could have the child choose the button to make it special, or use different colour buttons for each child if you have more than one. you can use a cloth-safe pen or paint to mark the name/year/height/etc...
i plan to use this idea when i get around to having a kid... until then, i don't mind sharing. :o)
also - fabric is sturdier than paper and can be passed on to cousins or grandkids. a family tree of height progress!
eeboo makes beautiful ones: http://www.eeboo.com/startpage.php?cat=15
This is a really neat idea but it just seems to easy to make to pay the price they are asking. I can imagine some sort of mix of marks on the door frame and a ruler drawn on a book case. I am sure a tall bookcase could be found much cheaper and similar style ruler could be painted on. Or not, you could just mark directly on the bookcase. When you move, you take it with you!
Get a six-foot-tall bookcase and glue two yardsticks to it, if you want your markings to be official. You can go with vintage retro yardsticks (antique stores always have them for a couple bucks) or get new ones (sometimes upholstery-related stores even give them away).