Best in Class: Child's play

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If you win the Lotto you could let your child’s imagination blast into the stratosphere with this Rocky Rocket, a handmade fibreglass chair with an interior of red velvet that you sit into and from where you can control light and sound systems with a mobile app. The wooden staircase conceals a small secret safe secret made of gold leaf. All finishes are made with non-toxic paints and varnishes. At €28,610 it costs the price of a good new car. Circu.net

Take play outdoors where a swathe of fabric can become a medieval tent, scatter cushions are crocodiles preventing knights of the realm from escaping their moat. This Guess Who collection from Scion ranges in price from €50 to €140 at Kevin Kelly Interiors and other stockists. You’ll find bunting and honeycomb ball decorations at UK-based Ginger Ray. scion.uk.com; kevinkellyinteriors.ie; gingerray.co.uk

My Hangout is a really smart design for boys and girls. The bed takes the traditional mezzanine bed idea and twists it on its head. Sleeping quarters are on the lower level with a playroom set at mezzanine level, complete with a roof to give you privacy and to help guard your secrets. The Danish design by Lifetime is available at Cork-based Jellybean Group and costs from €1,695. Jellybeangroup.com

You can reimagine a room by simply recovering existing furniture. Here a sofa with clean lines has been made to smile by covering it in one of the many prints in the fabric company Jane Churchill’s Happy collection. Available at Naas-based Ski Interiors and other stockists, the pop cars and zig zag fabrics both cost €60 per metre while the orange cushions are covered in Twinkle red, which is €54 pm. Skiinteriors.ie

This 100 per cent cotton printed bedding collection is a simple way to make a child’s bedroom feel special. The set includes a zip close duvet cover and pillowcase and costs €89.95 for a junior bed and €59.95 for a baby bed. Accessories which include soft toys, the striped Little Mause, a pink doll Little Bon Bon and the blue spotty Little Gorby, are all €59. The pure wool rug – to keep tootsies warm in winter – is also available at Sandymount-based Mira Mira. Miramira.ie, 01 219 6668

Designer Arlene McIntyre of Ventura Design created these large-scale bespoke bunk beds for College Square, a new homes development in Terenure. The shape of the bunks echoes the shape of the dormer bedroom and the bottom bed is a double so as well as working aesthetically in attic rooms they are also practical – giving a parent the space to cosy up beside a small child for bedtime stories. Made on site, this design costs from €2,700 to order. Ventura.ie

Sat Jun 11 2016 - 06:00

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