April « 2011 « Dynamic Home Decor Blog

Archive of entries posted on April 2011

Bring on the FUN !

Posted by designblog on 7 April 2011, 7:26 pm

We’re inspired by the recent article in Yahoo! Real Estate about an East Village, NYC duplex. Starting as two penthouse condos, one on top of the other, Turett Collaborative Architects transformed the space into one 2400 sq ft home with a unique, bold, and FUN design feature – a helical slide!

NY Slide by Turett Collaborative Architects

While this is ultra-cool for a bachelor pad in NYC, for a family home in the suburbs, well, it would be fun until:

all the neighborhood preschoolers are at your doorstep everyday

your enterprising 8-year-old connects a hose from the bath tub to the top, or a bucket of slime

your teenagers use the camcorder for Facebook videos, with an iPod headphone in one ear and an iPhone attached to the other (can u hear me now??)

the family pet tries it

But we digress. A house, whoever lives in it, should have some element of fun. Here’s some of our new spring products that would add some to any location: