Beautifully cute. This architectural blog whimsically reviewed cubby houses built by children out of couch cushions:
Before we were influenced by Mies van der Rohe or Frank Lloyd Wright, before we had seen the visual delights of Ronchamp, Pompidou Center and the Bauhaus school in Weimar, we were driven by a greater force of design inspiration. More primal and immediate than any of the previously mentioned examples, it was couch cushion architecture that established the basic building blocks of our design logic.
(Thanks to my brother for the link).
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A shiver goes up my spine when the kids say to me – can we make a house from the cushions. I see pillows everywhere, a room (or two) in disaray, cupboards pulled apart for blankets & the tidying up left to me. Sooooo, I take a deep breathe put a smile on my face and say of course you can!
One of the things I really like about having my grandparent’s loungesuite is that I grew up with it. I built cubbies with it (and now my son does).
BTW – why on earth would you have white couches if you’re into letting kids build cubbies with them?
coz architechts love white couches!
I just wish someone had told us to get a leather couch LEATHER when we were couch shopping (pre-child). Then I wouldn’t care what he builds with them. Actually it’s not the building bit so much (we’re the kind of house where cushions on floor just blends with the rest of the chaos) it’s the felt-pen and assorted food shmears that’s doing me in. At least we didn’t also go for white. I adore the link. People I work with talk like this all the time, made me *laugh*.
My dad was an architect, Id build, he’d critisise, Id redisign! Im now an architect, wish I could go back to those couches tho, maybe ill give my children something better to build with like cushion blocks!