Casa Kids: Making City Living Look Easy

Roberto Gil, creator of Casa Kids

Making Spaces in the Tiniest of Places:  Last weekend, I had the opportunity to chat with the talented children's furniture designer, Roberto Gil, creator of Casa Kids.  Gil, a former architect, found inspiration in children's furniture design when, during some time off he began designing adult size chairs and was told by friends how perfect those chairs would be for children.  Thus began Casa Kids-children's furniture that help transform city living with kids into chic, fun and well manageable.  Every piece of furniture is modern in design with a clean esthetic and oh so functional

Take a look for yourself:

This bedroom built for two has built in "stairs" leading up to the bed with large drawers offering plenty of storage space.  

Fit for Four:  Each bed in this bedroom is designed with their own reading light, closed off foot boards and higher guard rails creating a quiet refuge for each child in one room. 

This is a favorite of mine:  Maybe it's because I know so many families that could benefit from this design.  This bedroom set is clean, modern & can grow with the children.  The space under the bunk bed can be used for a crib, then a toddler bed and can even fit, for an additional purchase, a twin bed when the baby is older.  

This playful children's "Treasure Drawer Desk", $300, is made of birch plywood at Casa Kids

FUN FACTS 

• Bebe Bird is the proud owner of a Casa Kids rocking chair.  The rocking chair is 12 years old and has weathered two toddlers and is still in mint condition.
• Gil, uses the large window located in the guest bedroom of his Brooklyn home as a window display for his furniture.  
• Casa Kids loft beds & bunk beds offer everything for comfortable sleeping from detachable trays with the ability to move back and forth as well as moonlight as a nightstand, extra cutouts on ladders for easy gripping or "stairs' that can also be used for storage.  
• Roberto, and his team, have designed approximately 300 bedrooms in the NYC area alone.  
• Most common material used is birch plywood certified by FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) & CARB (California Air Resource Board)
• The signature circles incorporated into so many of Casa Kids designs was inspired by the ships portholes that Gil can see outside his Red Hook, Brooklyn studio on a daily basis.  
• Casa Kids offer home installation for the NYC area.
• Casa Kids furniture is so beautiful they should be in a museum...and WERE-showcasing at the MOMA, Guggenheim and The Whitney. 

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Check out Bebe Bird  in his 12 year young Casa Kids rocker. This is living proof that Casa Kids furniture can withstand the test of time & toddlers.    

To learn more about Casa Kids and to be inspired by this modern children's furniture line visit them here. Prices range from $200 for the Treasure Chair to $5,900 for the Marino Bunk Over Daybed with Stairs.  And if Casa Kids has tricked out your urban dwelling please share at hi@bebeirds.com.  We would love to share with our readers.  

Casa Kids furniture even has a Superfan