Definitely over-the-top. Cool, but I hope the kid likes pirates for a LONG time.

@ HernandoHouse-
Anyone who can afford to pay someone to design & build something like that (and has such an enormous home to house it, just think of the ceiling height!) can afford to rip it all out and redesign when the child's tastes change every couple of years.

This is over the top to the 10th power. I'd love to see the rest of their home.

gorgeous. but god forbid there is a fire? the kid is trapped up by the ceiling with the smoke and the firefighters have to climb around to the ship? there has to be some kind of code that this doesn't pass. please enlighten me if i'm wrong?

I might be alone in thinking this but this room is ridiculous. Yes I understand the point that when the child grows out of this juvenile theme they will redo the room. But I just can't get over how wasteful that is!! Unless they have designed the pieces to be able to be taken down without being destroyed (so they can be donated) I give this room a huge thumbs down...

ok, i see now that his bed is not in the ship, but still...

impressive...but I'm amazed at the amount of space that americans have. Here I am in Europe just wishing for a closet!

extravagant yes. but a waste? no. i think if you have the money to treat your kids to something this cool, go for it. give the parents a break. jeez.

so freakin' sweet! i don't think a kid is going to outgrow this anytime soon. he's only 6, he's gotta plenty of years left to enjoy it, it's awesome!

this is AWESOME

Yes, because any of us here NEED a $500 designer lamp. But if we have the money we can spend it however we like because it makes us happy. Same idea.

This is kid design, we should admire the creativity and craftmanship that went into it. Plus I bet that's one happy kid and all his friends who get to play on it.

wow!!!! that's one lucky kid!!!

This room is fantastic. I'd love to live there (and I'm a 31 year old woman).

And who are we to judge? Personally I think spending money on an imaginative kids room is better than spending it on louis vuitton purses and shiny sports cars.

Jack Sparrow's bedroom?

This is so cool, love the imagination and creativity. Posting on our fb page today too - thanks for sharing. http://www.facebook.com/caronsbeachhouse

Would it be different if it were a playhouse? I LOVE the pirate ship, and I think this is way more awesome than letting a kid play video games all day.

If I could afford it, I'd build one of those in my bedroom. Y'know...for different reasons.

I want to go to there

The design is fantastic. I would rather that this be in a children's museum...

@melichan, just so you know, most Americans don't live anything at all like this. You may have heard in our political news a lot of fussing recently about "tax breaks for the rich". I think the current statistics are that 1-2% of Americans hold 80% of the wealth in the country. This house belongs to someone in that 1-2%. Meaning the other 98% of us only gawk.

I think this is ridiculous. It belongs in a theme park, not a home.

It's a big room, but you could do something just as creative in a small room. Creative parents make creative kids who become creative adults who enhance the world. Can't buy that at IKEA.

You know what?!? Stop hating on this room. If I had a kid and the means to do something THIS amazing for them, I'd sure as hell do it! This is an awesome room that promotes creativity/imagination AND physical activity. Come on people... you're just mad you didn't have this as your room as a kid. LOL

This room is amazing! I'd MUCH rather see rich parents spend money on fantastic creative spaces like this than boring, bland $6,000 nurseries or Louis Vuitton diaper bags.

If I were in the upper 2%, this is the sort of thing I would be spending my money on. I can only imagine how much fun that kid and his friends have in there!

Re: sleeping and fire, if you click the link and view the rest of the photos, there is a bed on the floor of the bedroom, although I imagine the ship would make for the baddest sleepover ever.

I LOVE this and am currently plotting with my boyfriend how to afford hiring the designer to make us one (after we afford buying a house...)

Boffo cool room. Love the ideas, love the execution. But whoever thought that "concept" was a verb should be taken out and and made to walk the plank.

I think greatkate nailed it.

and @Ulrika - "concept" is widely used as a verb (right or wrong) in the majority of design-related professions.

So many haterz on this post. This bed/bedroom is amazing.

This is beyond awesome.

Do they make this in adult size?

omg....this is all kinds of amazing....

Really people. This is a great room. Settle down and be happy :)

I'm not 6 years old anymore and I still want to sleep in a suspended pirate ship.

I've about had it with the "everything is a waste" crowd... they're the new Puritans. As for the "1-2%" that can afford this sort of extravagance, keep in mind they employ the designers, the tradesmen, the material suppliers, and the bloggers for that matter. That's a lot of food on a lot of tables.

On second thought, maybe we should all just live in 12'x12' studio apartments made of recycled cardboard and live on a diet of Soma and bitterness. Just saying...

He's 6? Who's clothes are those in the closet? Is this kid a banker? Maybe he paid for this extravagance himself.

How about just settling for a couple of Pirates Promises
http://www.etsy.com/listing/68884690/pirates-promise-scrub-a-dub-dub-in-the
http://www.etsy.com/listing/68817701/pirates-promise-leave-yer-boots-on-deck
http://www.etsy.com/listing/68608874/pirates-promise-no-swashbuckling-after
They're aaaaarrrrrsome!!

If I had the money, I would so do this for my boys. I know its way over the top but you only live once and you only get to see your kids be kids once.

That's amazing!! I would be satisfied with that as my room too! lucky little boy!

If you can build your 'vision' and pay for it, why not? This is awesome!

There are some serious haters here wow, all I can say is that you are all jealous you never had that growing up or jealous of the parents money. Amazing room, thanks for sharing, it gives me inspiration to do something creative in our playroom, even if I don't have the ship, I love the theme.

This room is a fantasy, like being on a movie set... in that sense, it's amazing.

But lots of folks say it will 'inspire creativity' as if those other 'boring' rooms with just a bed and dresser won't. Creativity comes from within, not from without. It comes from making something new from nothing, from the imagination - it doesn't require a pirate bedroom or a $500 lamp.

My younger son has a cape, made for him by his grandmother. In the past week he's paired that with all sortsof little things in his room (medals, a broken umbrella, a paintbrush, a chopstick, etc) to be 1 a secret agent, 2. a conductor and musician, 3. a wizard, and 4. a druid. He's created fantastical worlds of the imagination and he doesn't need all the trappings of a pirate ship room to do it, because the vision is inside him.

However to the architects and designers - kudos. It must have been a blast to design and construct.

With no specific disrespect intended towards the creators of this room, who are obviously highly artistic and talented, does anyone else see a problem with the whole pirate theme in general, especially given recent events? I can't understand glorifying or kiddifying criminal behavior in this way--just as I'd never give my three-year-old son a robbers-rapists-and-murderers themed party, I can't see presenting pirates as some sort of amusing theme alongside firefighters, astronauts, or ballet dancers. Is anyone else with me on this one?

Way to channel an 80's Adam Ant set. Well done.

i'm a 26 year old girl, and i would totally stay in that room!

it's nicely done, not over the board cheesy kitschy children home design. It's so fun but yet mature. thats y we all like it.

abby1116 - I can easily believe the "design-related professions" are full of people who can't write competent English, but that doesn't affect my opinion -- whoever thought of it, and whoever perpetuates it, should be taken out behind the wood shed and made to see sweet reason with the business end of a leather strap.

Hmm and here I thought we read blogs to relax. I'm pretty sure most people don't come here to be bitched at by grammar nati. Please someone take away the Negative Nelly's internet access.

has anyone clicked on the link to the Kuhl Design Build website? i want that SLIDE!

This is pathetic.

Bindy, imagination! What a concept.

So awesome!!! I live with a 7 year old who would LOVE this room!

I live in that house, no one stays in that room but it is very cool to have