10 Modern Kids Rooms with Not-Your-Average Bunk Beds

We recently featured some pretty cool bunk beds we wish we’d had as kids. Since time doesn’t go in reverse, that’s not going to happen now that we’re adults. To further pique our jealousy of children today, we rounded up 10 modern kids rooms with bunk beds we wish we could call our own. Take a look.

Huus 19 is a family home in Hamburg, Germany, designed by Open Ruum, with a sophisticated kids room featuring a unique bunk bed. The bottom bed is hidden away in a cubby accessed through a circular cut out, while the top bunk is reached by a slanted ladder/staircase that reaches up through a hatch door.

Photo courtesy of Urbanology Designs

Urbanology Designs created this neutral, Scandinavian-inspired kids room complete with a custom bed that resembles wooden pallets. The top bunk is attached to the wall making it look like it’s floating mid-air and the bottom bed rests on a moveable platform on wheels.

Photo by Eric Laignel

Ghislaine Viñas is no stranger to color as she seamlessly works with bold colors in all of her interior projects, making them truly unforgettable. This TriBeCa Family Loft is decorated with a blue and white color palette, which includes Marimekko’s infamous flower pattern, Unikko.

Photo courtesy of A! Emotional living & work

This apartment in Barcelona was designed by A! Emotional living & work and it houses a custom bunk bed situation that could sleep several kids. The bottom is raised up with storage underneath and space for two beds on top, while a ladder gives access to a suspended bunk above.

Photo by Jakub Skokan and Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice

Designed by Formafatal, this industrial loft in Prague includes an unconventional bunk bed finished off with orange metal components that serve as the ladders and safety details.

Photo by Katie Fiedler

Ilderton Contracting created this beach house in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, which was designed to sleep a bunch of people, as evident in this bunk room. Capped off with black, white, and tan, the room is the perfect neutral for children a little older in age.

Photo courtesy of Bates Masi Architects

Bates Masi Architects designed this vacation home in Water Mill, New York, with these suspended bunk beds that appear to be floating out from the wall. The simple, wood framed boxes allow the mattresses to rest inside so they stay put while four small storage boxes are installed beside the beds to double as a clever ladder.

Photo courtesy of Maison Sarah Lavoine

Maison Sarah Lavoine is responsible for this black, white, and purple bunk room in a Parisian apartment. The floor, walls, and ceiling of this bedroom are all white, except for the blue band of paint around the bottom perimeter, making the modern black bunk bed with bold purple bedding pop.

Photo by Annie Schlechter

The Bohemian Apartment is a project realized by INC Architecture & Design in a building in NYC’s Battery Park City. The homeowner grew up in a beach town in California and wanted her home to reflect that and this kids room definitely does. The modern white bunk bed has orange/red accents and it lives in a room with bright green floors and blue walls, plus a column that was turned into a tree!

Photo by Marili Forastieri

This New York City apartment resides in the Bloomsberg Towers and it was designed by painter and interior designer Tara Benet. The light and airy interior is mostly white, including the children’s room, which features dark wood floors, white walls, a white and wood bunk bed, white bedding, and a neutral rug. Color is left to a few simple toys leaving it with a fresh and clean feeling.

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ILES Furniture Project Lets You Customize Your Space with “Islands”

For their graduation project at the Academy of Arts and Design in Wrocław, Poland, friends Kamila Potocka, Karolina Koryniowska, and Maja Górowska came together to create the ILES furniture collection which rethinks spacial organization. The minimalist pieces of black furniture are designed to be configured into “islands” allowing the furniture to be placed in the center of the room, instead of pushed against the wall like most.

The island approach gives the user access to each unit from different directions forming zones that also give the overall room a sense of multiple spaces. The concept was conceived for the millennial generation who prefer minimalist furniture that also is functional. Also, with the tendency to change their residence more frequently, they need pieces that are easy to move and put back together.

The design of the graphic pieces lean towards sleek and linear with unique twists. The trio merges different materials, like powder coated steel pipe, raw CDF plank, and buckwheat groat (to fill pillows), all in black, for a cohesive look.

Photos by Kamila Potocka, Karolina Koryniowska, and Maja Górowska.

from Design MilkDesign Milk http://design-milk.com/iles-furniture-project-lets-you-customize-your-space-with-islands/

Listen to Episode 42 of Clever: Paola Antonelli

MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture & Design, Paola Antonelli, grew up steeped in the design culture of Milan and developed a sense of fearlessness from frequent travels to foreign lands. After studying architecture in school she landed in the curatorial arts without even aiming for it. She talks to Amy and Jaime about how she views objects as lenses for understanding the complexity of the built world and her passionate belief that cultural institutions, like museums, are the R&D of society. *Swoon*
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Drop: A Handheld Colander by Viviana Degrandi for RIG-TIG by Stelton

Italian designer Viviana Degrandi decided she wanted to reimagine the effective, yet awkward salad spinner, which seemed to never evolve since its incarnation. DROP changes it up completely with its compact size, minimal design, and the way it works to remove excess water from your fruits and veggies.

The drop-shaped design consists of two parts that join together by fitting one inside the other. To use, just place your food in one of the domed halves, press the button, and slide the other half around until it’s closed. Stick the handle under the water to rinse your veggies and then roll the handle back and forth in your hands quickly to enact centrifugal force to remove the extra water.

You can also use DROP as a regular colander for pasta and more delicate fruits you just want to rinse off.

DROP won the “Culinary” section prize during the 2015 Red Dot Concept Design Award competition, which led to Stelton picking up the product to release under their RIG-TIG brand.

Project Assistant: Salvatore Scordo
Photos by Salvatore Scordo and RIG-TIG by Stelton.

from Design MilkDesign Milk http://design-milk.com/drop-a-handheld-colander-by-viviana-degrandi-for-rig-tig-by-stelton/

Mitte Smart Water System Is Purely Automatic

German company Mitte believes the home water purification experience needs an update. Their home distillation system is designed to remove impurities from tap water while adding back essential minerals into every glass or bottle using customized mineral cartridges formulated with specific taste profiles and mineral content.

The Mitte uses an age old technique – distillation – the same process a spirits distillery utilizes to craft your favorite bottle of liqueur, whiskey, gin, tequila, or vodka. Water is boiled, with condensed steam gathered into a clean container for drinking or use. Impurities are left behind, producing extremely clean water. It’s nothing new or whizbang in itself, but it is proven very effective as a water purification process.

The app-controlled system allows users to adjust water dispensed at a wide range of temperatures, between 5 to 92 degrees Celsius, 41 to 197 Fahrenheit, a welcome feature for those who require ideal water for their hot cup of tea or coffee throughout the day

But the promise of clean water is complicated by findings that show demineralized water isn’t as unhealthy than water with trace elements (the human body requires minerals in minute amounts). Distilled water also tastes quite flat. That’s the reasoning behind Mitte’s mineral cartridge system, each formulated with a cocktail of essential minerals and different pH ratings to add back what was removed in the process of purifying the water from other unwanted elements.

Of course the catch is the system requires reordering new mineral cartridges every 3 months, for about 400 liters of water dispensed through the cartridges (Mitte notes this is still cheaper and more eco-friendly than purchasing bottled water). Ideally, one day the manufacturer would opt to offer a reusable cartridge permitting users to formulate their own mineral content using readily available sources like mineral-rich sea salt.

There are already numerous countertop water distillation appliances available for less, so it seems Mitte is counting on a more aesthetically pleasing level of industrial design and their integrated mineralization feature to standout from the existing crowd of fairly staid looking home water distillers. Beyond price, the Mitte’s 16.5″ x 16.9″ x 12.6″ footprint requires assessment of available counterspace. It’s not huge, but neither is it compact by any means. But if there’s anything worth investing in, clean drinking water is right up there.

from Design MilkDesign Milk http://design-milk.com/mitte-smart-water-system/

Why Homesense Made Me Build A New Larder

Earlier this summer I wrote about going to Homesense for the first time and I  called it the interior shopper’s best kept secret. Many of you were incredulous that I had never been before and the comments about the amazing bargains people found filled both blog and instagram for days. Well, reader, I have to…

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A Modern, 12-Year-Old House in the Czech Republic Gets a New Interior

In Humpolec, a small town in the Czech Republic, the Rusty House is a project completed by Luděk Rýzner of OK PLAN ARCHITECTS after the owners decided they wanted to renovate the interior after 12 years of living in it. The house was originally built in 2005 on a small plot of land, which required creative solutions to make it work. The original design called for raw materials, like polished concrete floors, an exposed galvanized steel structure, concrete-covered corrugated sheet metal on the ceiling, smooth concrete walls, and an exterior clad in pre-rusted sheet metal (CorTen), for a modern, industrial look that blended in with the neighborhood thanks to the green landscaping. Over time, the owners decided they wanted to scale back on the raw, industrial look a bit on the main floor, while softening other areas throughout.

Due to so many hard and reflective surfaces, the acoustics became a problem that needed to be solved with oak panels, along with new window coverings. The original sofas stayed but were complemented with a pillow in Alexander Girard fabric, a new rug, and an Artemide floor lamp. Hanging above are two sculptural pendants from FLOS.

The dining table was custom designed by OK PLAN ARCHITECTS and paired with Eames chairs.

The fireplace got a new insert for a more modern look.

The old kitchen cabinets were replaced with ones that offered better functionality.

Photography by Jakub Skokan and Martin Tůma / BoysPlayNice.

from Design MilkDesign Milk http://design-milk.com/a-modern-12-year-old-house-in-the-czech-republic-gets-a-new-interior/