My friend Sophie (of the children's brand Oeuf) might be the coolest mom ever, since she hung a trapeze in her Brooklyn living room. Her kids like to "swing really high and scare people," she says. "They love to triple-dog-dare our poor guests to do knee hangs." I interviewed her for Martha Stewart Living, and you can read the full interview here, if you'd like.P.S. Alex and I took a trapeze class and bombed:)
(Photos by Stephanie Deleau)
Bad ass!!! What a cool house!!
ReplyDeleteHA! This brings back great memories for me. I had a trapeze in our tv room growing up. I loved it! I also used the back of our couch as a balance beam, not all couches are cut out for that. So fun!!
ReplyDeleterecycled: http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2010/10/home-inspiration-trapeze.html
ReplyDeleteThis makes the ikea swing ladder and rings in our basement seem quite tame.
ReplyDeleteI am a full-blown adult and I would kill for this in my house!
ReplyDeleteThis is sweet ! People are so cool and creative. I have a friend who has a rock climbing wall in her living room.
ReplyDeleteI wanna be as bad ass as this mum!
ReplyDeleteCan she adopt me? I would love to be a kid in that living room!
ReplyDeleteI am not showing my this to my daughter. She saw the trapeze in the book "The Saturdays" and has brought up the in house trapeze idea on multiple occasions since.
ReplyDeleteNo way! That plus a slide next to the stairs and secret rooms make a kids (or kids at heart) paradise!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the trapeze but I'm loving that rug!
ReplyDeleteOk, that is insanely awesome... I think I'm just a bit too chicken to actually do that!
ReplyDeleteso much fun!!
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That looks like so much fun! I would have loved that when I was little.
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I'd be so afraid that I would accidentally let go and fling myself across the room. Oh well! This is awesome anyway!
ReplyDeleteThis is way too awesome. I hope someday that I'm this cool of a mom. xxx
ReplyDeleteI love the idea and her living room!
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How very random, but I must say I would have loved this when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteCrazy! I love it :D
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I had a trapeze in our living room growing up too! I used to choreograph dances to Diana Ross, "inside out, boy you turn me, upside down, and round and round..."
ReplyDeleteOh my god, this looks like so much fun! I want one! x
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ohhh that is so awesome. I would love that and I don't even have kids!
ReplyDeletePromoting Much??? A 2010 blogpost being reposted with a few switches in 2012 is just lame.
ReplyDeleteOh my word this is amazing! I want one!
ReplyDeleteam i the only one who thinks this is a disaster waiting to happen?
ReplyDeleteWow, she is a cool mom! I don't know if I could be that cool :)
ReplyDeleteAre you SERIOUS with this??? Did you learn nothing from the response to the July 12 piece in which you plagiarize a 3-year-old piece you wrote for Glamour (arguably not even content owned by you?)
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Now you're recycling 2010 posts from this blog?
http://joannagoddard.blogspot.com/2010/10/home-inspiration-trapeze.html
If you were just a "busy mom" who blogs as a hobby, that would be one thing. But you call yourself a professional writer and this is a highly commercial blog and your full-time job. Lazy.
This might seem like a good idea, however about 10 years ago a friend of mine broke her back because of such a device in her house.
ReplyDeleteah, that's cool! we had a swing in our flat when I was little :) pretty fun too!
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather built a huge log cabin/house and had a rope swing that swung from the kitchen and over the stairs to the downstairs. It was awesome!
ReplyDeleteoohh!! it's so cool. I want to have one. I think your friend is a great mom.
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Absolutely brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI love this! Always wanted to do a trapese... like in Sex and the City!
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Love this! We have a trapeze for both our girls, they have stopped playing on the computer and now spend all their time playing on the trapeze! We have other friends whom influenced us with their own trapeze for their kids because they live in pole houses with no outdoors. Best thing we ever did. Builds their strength and their agility and their confidence.
ReplyDeleteVery few homes could pull this off. I love that she took advantage of a long narrow room and an extremely high ceiling. A terrific way to get the kids to exercise and a wonderful conversation piece.
ReplyDeleteNICE!
ReplyDeleteNo freakin way! This is so cool, I want it in my living room and I don't even have kids. lol
ReplyDeleteThis was a cool idea when you wrote about it in 2010 and it still is today, but ... what happened to "original" content?
ReplyDeletecool trapeze, but that RUG!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun idea!
ReplyDeleteGood lord, the anonymous commenters are annoying. I always wonder about people with the time and inclination to be so negative about things on the internet...? Anyway, I missed the earlier post and loved seeing this one - what a sweet interview, too!
ReplyDeletehaha this is my husband's dream! he's been bugging me to put a hammock in our living room forever
ReplyDeleteSaw this on Pinterest and fell in love--this is so, so cool!
ReplyDeleteP.S. have you seen Oeuf's new line? It's so stinkin' adorable.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm with Alex, I missed this the first time and thought it was a fun little read this am
I don't have kids but I'd love it looks like fun for this ex-gymnast! I want one!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lucky little dude!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds insanely dangerous . . . I mean, I'm not an especially cautious person but no way would I do that. Is there tons of padding under that rug to cushion falls?
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome!
ReplyDeleteWow.... I would love to have grown up with that kind of freedom but also, dangerous much?
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I'm pretty sure that is the definition of amazeballs. Wow.
ReplyDeleteI want one for me! That looks like so much fun!
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What?! Amazing! And rad apartment.
ReplyDeleteHow cool! I would have loved to have that when I was growing up.
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Seriously? You're re-posting old articles again?
ReplyDeleteReally? I wonder about people with the time to fawn all over bloggers regardless of how bad or how unoriginal the content. I don't know why other people don't get this... people who hold themselves out as "journalists" and make their living from writing (and indirectly from READERS) should meet certain standards. There's nothing wrong with saying so.
ReplyDeleteThis will be ironic, coming from an anonymous comment, but perhaps you should do away with anonymous commenting! It's very distracting, as a casual reader of your blog, to see these people with some sort of vendetta posting over and over. I read this blog for fun for five minutes before starting my workday and I read it partially because it is (was?) one of the few peaceful, positive little corners of the internet. Anyway, getting rid of anonymous comments may tone down the venom. (I find people aren't as critical and rude if their actual name is attached to the words.) Anyway, that's my humble suggestion as a long time reader, very occasional commenter. :)
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good way to die ... it's rad, but omg it looks dangerous!
ReplyDeleteI guess my point was, if you don't like it or it upsets you, there's a very easy way to avoid that! Why would you keep revisiting a blog that's making you crazy? The very defintion of insanity!
ReplyDeleteThat seems rather unsafe however I think I'd spend more time on it than the kids. :)
ReplyDeletelooks fun...
ReplyDeletebut lack of safety..
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Holy geez, that looks so fun! If only my ceilings weren't so low...
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So fun! And what a lovely looking living room. :) Love your blog. If you happen to have an interest in blogging soon about where someone could get fun rugs like this, I would be a very interested reader!
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This is so clever and something I never really thought about doing..printing the images myself I mean.
ReplyDeleteI always go looking for vintage postcards or images but I will definitely be trying this next time.
What a fun house.
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ReplyDeleteI am waiting for the young boy to loose his grip, and go flying through the window that is so close behind him. Lawsuit!
ReplyDeleteWow, what a gymnast, but be careful with those equipment.
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