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Kid-Centric Townhouse in the East Village
The New York Times 7.10.08

Would you let your daughter's classmates adorn your white muslin sofa from John Derian? Pamela Bell encourage it. The New York Times takes us inside the home of one of the original partners of Kate ...

Eames Chair Cross Stitch at Etsy

Follow most patterns out there and there's nothing too exciting about cross stitch. But look at this neat pattern at Tiny Modernist on Etsy. It's a pattern for creating two Eames shell chairs with E...

Zane's Robot-Inspired Room
From Ohdeedoh: home.design.children

It all started with a robot painting and then these parents decided, "Hey, let's design a nursery around this." See how it turned out. There's lots more interesting thing to be found on Ohdeedoh...

From Ohdeedoh
Our site that covers modern homelife with children

Reversible, embroidered pillows designed to create some division of labor equity between new parents. We envision a lot of cheating. What else is happening over at Ohdeedoh? Heartfelt Polaroid ...

From Ohdeedoh
Our site that covers modern homelife with children

&bull The mini-me version of Philippe Starck's Louis Ghost Chair. More from Ohdeedoh this past week: paint for a gender-neutral nursery, a modern rocking chair and wrapping paper storage. ...

DIY Storage Made From Wooden Drum Shells

From Ohdeedoh: home.design.children

• Wooden Drum Shells Become Pretty Storage: Our spring storage contest is in full swing! Here's our first entry. Below the jump: Illustrator Fabric and Vintage Finds...

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Our site that covers modern homelife with children

• Learn how to make Sculpey Nature Prints - they're easy enough for kids to make and beautiful enough for you to display. Below the jump: The Evolutionary Chair, Re-Surface Lighting and P...

The Slot Car Wall Sculpture by Pete Nidzgorski

This is great. Since we last featured Pete for his beautiful storage cabinet design, he's been hard at work dreaming up new cool stuff......

House Tour: Modern Duplex
NYT 2.17.08

Looking at the light-filled pictures of Aaron Kristen's duplex apartment in the far West Village, one wouldn't immediately guess that a majority of the 2,400 square feet is below grade. The apartmen...

Living with Kids, Witch Hazels & Window Coverings
NYT House & Home Roundup 2.14.08

Over at Ohdeedoh, a discussion is brewing on The New York Times' story about incorporating good design into homes with small children (or really, incorporating children into homes where design was a...

From Ohdeedoh
Our site that covers modern homelife with children

• Guthrie's Retro Stripes Nursery: Some great DIY projects went into the "G-man's" room. Below the jump: Chalk-a-Dots and Matte Stephens Retro Placemats...

NYT: Hotel Technology, Repairing Kitchen Floors,
Seating for Children

House & Home Roundup 1.10.08

You Can Go Home Again, but Why? The technologically-advanced Peninsula Hotel in Tokyo. Room to Improve: My kitchen tile is scuffed and worn in high-traffic areas. Can I fix it without replacin...

New York Magazine: WORKac pushes the Rental

Over the Top. We told you it was full of great stuff! In another feature in their Home Design special — The Next White — New York Magazine goes inside the radical redefined rental of Art Advisor Sha...

Best Products: gDiapers

Nothing's perfect, but these come damn close. Though we don't consider ourselves pro users yet, we've found the design of gDiapers intelligent, effective and cool looking. Not to mention totally non-...

AT Survey: Best Stroller Design of 2006

We got a great response to our stroller design survey, which not only highlighted the passion that surrounds this category, but also how clear the front runners are. Despite thousands of years of ev...

Sahara Crib & Delphi Changing Table

Over at Argington in Brooklyn, Jenny Argie is hard at work churning out new modern children's designs, this time with Andrew Thornton. Argington's expanded collection is based on the seven wonders ...

Best Products: Ikea Moon Light

Hello, Moon. We helped some friends rearrange their apartment for their incoming baby and bought them this lamp. Little did we know it would become their favorite thing. Costing a mere $6.99 at Ike...

Oeuf's New Walnut Nursery

New Oeuf Nursery in Walnut - doesn't this room just feel like Brooklyn? Sophie over at Oeuf is giving up the blond and going brunette. Indeed, the days of light wood seem to be over as everything he...

Imagine Duo Bunk

THIS makes us want to be a kid again. We love this bunkbed design. We just noticed that Room and Board is catching onto the national trend called, "If it has to do with babies and kids, it will sell...

House of L & G: Sweeter Dreams

One of the first things parents talk about to other parents is how their children are sleeping. One way I thought I’d help my twins sleep is to give them an organically, cozy, sumptuous crib. I kne...

Target's Bauhaus Dollhouse

This just in. For you architecture buffs out there as well as masochistic dads who might just think that children really want to play with this kind of thing...we just caught wind that Fabulous Targ...

NYTimes Children's Design Issue

Photo by Neal Slavin, Art by John Tremblay We recommend this weekend's NY Times Magazine Section, which is a design issue devoted to children's design. While much of it runs the gauntlet of masquer...

TrixieUpdate.com

This just in. This takes blogs and child raising to new heights. The Trixie Update is a weblog by two parents who have used a computer program to measure all of their daughter Trixie's bodily functi...

New Nelson Clocks Coming To NYC

This just in. For George Nelson fans in the metro area, Vitra is bringing back the Zootimer clock collection. Designed by Nelson for children (hence the non-spikey, all-too-familiar face) these aren...

Land of Nod Storage

Clear the decks. Children create messes that can turn a civilized living room into a wasteland of toys, art supplies, clothes and tiny miscellaneous objects that have no proper home. You clean it up...

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