The reader's favorite posts on Ohdeedoh this week included a hacking a pax wardrobe, FLOR tiles for nurseries and tremendous treehouses.
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Francisca was born premature, but she has grown in size and in her parents' hearts. She celebrated her FIRST birthday yesterday and we're sure she was surrounded by all her loving family and friend...
When we saw this photo we became suddenly sentimental for all the children's records from our past that were unceremoniously sold off by our mother for 25 cents a pop at the annual neighborhood gara...
When we came home today, someone had helped himself to our little box of Eames rubber stamps and the evidence was every where. Maybe it's time for a custom stamp of his own. We surfed around and fou...
Disclaimer: This craft may not exactly be suitable for younger children (or even some older ones, for that matter), but it's so great we had to post it. These jarred specimens of evil scientist projec...
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Name: Erin
Location: Northern Virginia
Children: Cora, 3-weeks-old
Inspiration: The room faces West and gets a lovely warm glow in the afternoon and as the sun...
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Name: Kara
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Child: Caden, 21 months
Inspiration: When my husband and I decided to convert a small, unused room in our basement into a p...
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Name: Kristin
Location: Mount Vernon, WA
Children: Sayer, almost 10 months old
Inspiration: When we set out to create Sayer’s room, our color inspiration w...
With a name that nods to the ancestor of the horse, Pippocampus is "a postmodern ode to a rocking horse." We love a pomo gag as much as the next person, but what really appeals to us -- other than thi...
The Davis Boat Bed, made from solid wood with teak accents. Info, voting and price, below the link....
For pure eye candy, you can't go wrong with a visit to the MoMA store. Sure enough, when we ambled over recently, there were these blocks waiting to tickle our retinas. Originally designed by Karen He...
We're ending the week with a Pacific Northwest edition of Scavenger bringing you finds from Portland, Seattle-Tacoma and Vancouver. We particularly like this Svan Scooter from Sweden and some moder...
Since we're celebrating color this month, we have to applaud this fantastic toy box reinvention. What started as a rather plain wooden box was painted and reworked into this cheerful, fun keepsake....
At around age seven, we became obsessed with having our own sewing machine. The parents finally relented a year later and were really glad they did. It provided hours and hours of fun, the only down...
Today on our site all about cooking at home, The Kitchn, they are running a Hot or Not post featuring some very high-end "gourmet" kid kitchens. Click over to weigh in on the vote and join the discuss...
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Name: AdrienneVictoria
Location: San Jose, California
Child: Élodie Victoria, 20 months
Inspiration: I wanted something joyful, exuberant and unabashedly gir...
Invented in 1936, by Danish mathematician Piet Hein, the Soma Cube is a cube puzzle similar to a Tangram, which can be arranged and rearranged to form a multitude of shapes and figures. We've rounded...
Reef posed a good question: I'm looking for a bookcase for my son's room. I was debating between Oeuf's mini library, Argington's Eiffel bookcase and West Elm's 2 shelf stacked modular bookcase in whi...
La maison est en carton (The Cardboard House) is an online site that specializes in inexpensive limited edition signed artwork for children's rooms by children's book artists and illustrators.... ...
This summer we posted on the new Amy Coe collection at Babies "R" Us. Well, Cassie wrote us wondering if anyone has tried it out, one piece in particular.
Have you heard any reviews regarding the ...
Big blue eyes, aka Jack, is turning ONE today! Happy Birthday and happy year!
Jack is a sweet, good natured baby. He likes to smile at people and "read" his books, and he will often raise one eyeb...
If there's anything that can trump our love of school supplies, it's our love of art supplies. And art supplies that are also environmentally friendly? And reasonably priced? We're there.
From soy-b...
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Name: Stephanie
Location: Tampa, Florida
Children: Kendra, 10
Inspiration: My daughter's birthday present from me this year was a new room. Her space had becom...
Many of you coveted these adorable bunnies after seeing them in Sonny's nursery tour. We've tracked down Theresa, their creator, and found out that not only is she selling them in her Etsy shop, but y...
Why wait until the winter holidays to bust out your gingerbread skills. Giving new meaning to the phrase "eye candy" is this incredible Halloween-themed gingerbread house.
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The baby bouncer is an item we consider essential for young babies. We received our Oeuf lounger as a gift two years ago and it's happily bouncing baby number two at this very moment. So we have to ...
Hang on, Margaret! It's your FIRST birthday and it sounds like a big one! Mom fills us in below.
We celebrated with a trip to the aquarium with her big brother George. In the top photo she is r...
When it comes to crafting with our kids, many of us make do (rather creatively, we might add) with the minimal amount of room we have on hand. But if you have the space to permanently dedicate to craf...
It's the Great Pumpkin, Penelope. We hope your birthday is all treats and no tricks!
Penelope Kathleen, our little pumpkin, turns 1 today. I never imagined that someone so tiny could bring so muc...
It's funny how often one situation can completely turn into something else, quite unexpectedly. We suppose that is what's at the heart of parenthood -- surprise after surprise. And for the most part,...
Have you been enjoying the deluge of DIY play kitchens featured on Ohdeedoh? We enjoy seeing them as well. Here is one more good for those of us who are lacking in the carpentry department....
"The Pregnant Chair was designed as an expression of the beautiful physical and emotional relationship that exists between a mother and her child," says designer Trent Jansen, whose chair-within-a-cha...
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Name: Erin
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Children: Alice Vivian, 2 months old
Inspiration: We needed to turn our proper 1950's wood-paneled study into a l...
Robin wrote in with a question about a craft project:
I just purchased this wooden toy box at a garage sale and I want to design a pattern to burn into the wood (I think it's called Pyrography, but I...
Do you remember Colorforms? We had a Sesame Street set we would lug around with us everywhere. We loved the smell of the Colorform shapes, the simplicity of the entire thing and how we would always ...
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Name: Pam
Location: New Orleans
Children: Linus, Oliver, and Miles, 10 months old
Inspiration: My first inspiration was a circus-themed toile. Since we didn't ...
We've had so many great DIY play kitchens shared with us by readers recently, but not everyone has the time. If you live in Manhattan you can snatch up this one (left) by Alex Toys. The Scavenger ...
Well it's no wonder the Danes are the happiest people on earth if they all live in charming apartments like this one. The first thing we noticed is what beautiful light they have which surely makes...
It seems everyone around us is in full Halloween spirit. We're loving this take on the classic gingerbread man - gingerbread skeletons!...
Explaining the changing seasons to a young child can be tricky... say, when you're trying to convince them they can't wear their bathing suit outdoors, even though this was totally acceptable a month ...
Kids and cake just go together! Exhibit A: Perrin who turned TWO over the weekend. Mom baked her a banana cake (ala this one) so of course she's excited. We hope you enjoy being two as much as yo...
Kasia sent us an e-mail: "My son, Frankie, who is turning 12 next week asked that we re-do his bathroom. Right now it has a SpongeBob SquarePants theme and I guess it's really not cutting it for a pr...
We have no room for a juggling clown or a prancing pony. But how about a cooking theme for your kid's next birthday party? A little preparation beforehand on your part is all you need to make this a...
This airplane sticker isn't pictured in a child's room, but what better place to put it, to help launch your children's dreams of all the places they will go......
Apparently these custom silhouette cookie cutters featured in Martha Stewart Weddings are making quite the splash among future brides, but we think they're a great idea for celebrating kids' birthda...
2007 Color Contest Winner: Sam's Chocolate Crash Pad Here we go...ready, set, color! Over the next few weeks we hope to show off some wonderful, colorful kids' rooms from all of you and award three am...
Here's Tate Parker going to town on the cake from his recent FIRST birthday!
We celebrated his birthday this past weekend with family and good friends. Tate didn't hesitate to dig into his birthda...
The full title of this book is actually Four Extraordinary Skyscrapers: And the Illuminated, Skyscraping, Build-It-Yourself Card Tower (It's Amazing), but we couldn't fit all that into the post title....
Williams-Sonoma is currently running a Halloween sale, and while we've featured some of the items shown here before, they seem even more appealing when they're on sale...
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There's a lot to like about the Micki bed. Its clean lines. Its compact footprint. The storage beneath. The fact that it can also sleep a full-sized adult. All these add up to a great piece of kids' f...
Call us selfish, but we have a shelf of our favorite children's books that are hands off. We look forward to reading them with our son, but we'd like to safeguard them from chewing, tearing and sti...
If you don't have a designated craft and art area for your child, cleaning up, storing and even finding art supplies can be a challenge. Consider this art caddy. It's made of galvanized steel so it'...
Perfect for cuddling under, reading in, and even making blanket forts with... this handknit afghan can do it all. We're not the only ones to be wooed by its charms. It caused quite a kerfuffle over at...
Ride 'em cowgirl! We're sending out wishes to Astrid that her SECOND birthday is the happiest of days!
Here's mom, Paige, with the scoop: We'll celebrate with two parties and some Ethiopian food b...
The Wheeling, West Virginia-based Totally Girly! caught our attention when we saw an ad in a recent issue of Interior Design. With a great selection of bedding, curtains, lamps, rugs and more -- ther...
Fall definitely has arrived. The trees around us have started to turn, there's a chill in the air and we sampled at least 7 different kinds of apples at the farmer's market. So while looking for cra...
So your little one wants a cat or a dog and you don't, or can't, or whatever, and a stuffed animal surrogate just won't do. Meet Jacques the Jack Russell Terrier. This lifesize trompe l'oeil pet is ju...
Cindy of Skip To My Lou made these easy Halloween votives from baby food jars with her 3-year old daughter. They're a great project for kids too young for pumpkin carving and also a clever and fest...
We've blogged the ColourLovers site before, but we think it bears re-posting now that we've launched our Fall Colors Contest. ColourLovers offers hundreds of downloadable color palettes and patterns, ...
Yes, it's true! Our Kids' Colors Contest is underway as we begin accepting submissions today. So get your best photos ready (at least 540 pixels wide, please.) and look out for a great colorful cont...
Let's answer the first question you want to ask: yes, this kid-size version of the regular Miele vacuum actually works. What more do you need to know?...
Welcome to the first Scavenger of the week. This week's Scavenger features finds from Chicago, Delaware, New York, SLC and more. So if you've been hunting down a Maclaren Volo, VW toddler bed, Saf...
Hello Ismay! Today is your second birthday - hooray! We wish you a wonderful day and an even better year.
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