Sometimes the only space you have for the new addition is, literally, in the corner.
Baby Trilogy is a company that makes nothing but corner cribs and corner crib accessories. They market primarily to grandparents who don't have the space for a regular crib. We think they should be marketing to urban parents, people for whom the term "space-saver" is a furniture-shopping mantra. This is a crib that eliminates extra head- and foot-room for a smaller overall footprint that still allows the wigglers to wiggle and roll (though probably not to grow too long). It folds up, and it's made in the States.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner!
Umm, that is a lot of money for a piece of furniture that will only get used for a couple of years. Try the family bed for a safe and snuggly night's rest. Put the $449 in the college fund.
It's not that much if you plan on having more than one child...I know a family that spent a decent amount on a crib 15 years ago but 5 babies got to use it over the years.
The family bed is not always so snuggly. In the very early days, when the little mite barely slept, we tried the family bed. I didn't sleep a wink!
I understand space saving design but baby is not an item to be thrown in the corner but a being. Alot of you on this board really need to check your priorities. I know you now are a bunch of pretentious "artist" (i use the word artist very loosely). Remember you were once children also, i understand that the other children probaly wouldn't let you sit at their lunch tables but come on let it go. this post isn't the reason for my rant but has been building up this whole month of sept. you treat pets better than people and i think that is sad. i know i'll get some back lash, but i'm not the pope and i wont appologize for telling the truth.
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J.D. Wynn
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Father of 3
This corner crib is negative?
It's beautiful, functional and ideal in an apartment. When we lived in Brooklyn in a 2 bedroom with a 3 year old and infant, this would have enabled our kids to share a room.
patty-
i'm sorry if sent a mixed message. the crib it's self is not negative. i am all for functionality. my comments were towards the overall comments this month about children in general. this post was just my coming out to speak on it. i should have spoke out on the first post asking if people wanted a children's design month. but i didn't. the crib is okay but at $450 then you have to buy a cheese wedge mattress, i think not very practical. hey who am i?
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j.d. wynn
Actually I remember my experience in my crib and this is something I would have enjoyed however my mother probably would have made my father switch it out. What a draconian existence my upbringing has been! Anyway, that crib would have been perfect for me.
safety garden...
it is easier to empathetically appreciate the womb by simply suspending a stretch fabric from wall to wall.
http://www.fabricarchitecture.com/cpd_fabric_architecture.htm
The reason for so little this month is that most AT-ers have no children and probably wouldn't really know what to do with them if they did.
Design in a baby's room is for the parent. The baby DOESN'T CARE whether you spent $100 or $5,000 on his crib...if you even use it. (We co-slept for the first 6 months--which means that both parents actually SLEPT for the first six months.) And "designing" an elementary school child's room most likely means that the parent isn't allowing the child any self-expression or choice because, honestly, a little boy allowed choice would brobably have a room covered in trucks or SpoongeBob Squarepants or something equally trite, soulless, and almost certainly tacky. And most little girls would paint their rooms a horrific shade of pink or purple (I wanted a rather eye-watering blue) and would probably plaster the walls with horrible pictures of kittens, horses, or their friends.
Kids don't care about "good taste." They don't want it. They want what makes them happy, which, all too often, would make an adult trying to live in the space nauseous. I have always pitied children whose rooms were "designed." They really had no place of their own.
And truly kid-friendly livingrooms and family rooms are not often those that are featured on any sort of design site. They tend to be bomb-proof, which leads to a distinct lack of knicknacks (that a child might accidently knock off the table) expensive or very light-colored upholtery (which an infant will puke on and where older children will lie, watching cartoons, when he has a stomach flu). Not that EVERY room in a house with children SHOULD be childproofed--it's just that those that are tend not to be terribly glamorous, unless minimalism or untilitarianism (and no, not the ones with lots of white and sharp ages) is your style.
Add to this the fact that Maxwell is, for the moment, childless and rather clueless and is nevertheless attempting to guide this...and, well, the lackluster results are not surprising.
I JUST REALLY LIKE THE STYLE. IT NOT BAD OR GOOD FOR ME IT A FASHION STYLE THAT IS RIGHT FOR ME AND MY SON.