Sure, these slides look ridiculously awesome and if I had one as a kid I would think I had the coolest parents EVER (unless I had a friend who was the spawn of Seal and Heidi Klum because that's a friend's house where I would try to stay for dinner) but what does having this much fun at home do to a kid really? Might building a staircase slide be trying a little too hard to cater to your child's every want and whim? I'm not saying we all have to live in the safety and tradition of June Cleaver Land (RIP), but these shenanigans seem to fall solidly into Dina Lohan territory. I mean, how badly do you want your kids to tote your coolness factor at school anyway? Is this more about YOU, slide-building-parents? In other words, staircase slides may seem like a grand idea to make your house THE house that all the kids want to play, but I would argue that you are just one step closer to being the kind of parent who would let your kid attend a drug-fueled dance party as long as it was located in your basement. Where there is a totally awesome trampoline floor!
Meh. I'm just mad that growing up we didn't even have a banister.
Lefthand slide built by London architect Alex Michaelis and shown on Gizmodo and righthand slide seen on daddytypes.
Editior's Note: Can someone please give me some alternative words for cool and awesome in the comment section below? Because I am afraid I have exhausted both of them. Seriously, they are lying on my couch and they won't get up.
Man, those are sweet. This post is sick. That’s all I’ve got for you. Also, I really liked the part about the basement trampoline. That was rad.
Screw the kid, I want one for myself.
You should bring back ‘neat’, ‘swell’ and ‘grand.’ And maybe ‘the bee’s knees’ and ‘the living end?’ I’m surprised those expressions haven’t all been scooped up by the hipsters, given all the prohibition-themed bars that have popped up around brooklyn. You can out-hip the hipsters!
supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus!
Those staircase slides are the shit! Also, nifty.
I must agree the slide is overkill. Next thing you know Mazzy will be loading buckets of sand onto the carpet for her own indoor sandbox and her best friend Christopher will show her how boys use their pee pee to make water come out of it. Oh, sorry, that might have just been a flashback to my own childhood, never mind. Still, I say pass on the slide, but yes to brunch at the Klum Seal compound.
Rad…
PS. I’d have the staircase because I would totally use it…in which I would also need a room made entirely up of Bengay cream because I am sure that 30year olds aren’t supposed to do shat like that!
Well, I will say that “drug-fueled dance party” does sound a touch bitter. That being said, I want to be friends with parents who have enough money to modify an integral part of their house’s construction to put in a slide. Better yet, I want to be invited to their wedding, b/c you know they’d have a kickass DJ. (Prelude to the drug-fueled parties and all. Obviously.)
(splendiferous, Perez Hilton’s amazeballs)
Wonderful, Amazing, Faboulous, stunning, unbelievable, extraordinary, sensational, spectacular, unique,phonomenal, impressive,smashing, fascinating and just in time for halloween bewitching and enchanting…
I grew up in a pretty silly household where you entered a second story through a wardrobe and had hidden room behind a bookshelve upstairs. Man I would love to have a slide in my house too, who said it has to be for kids… mommy or laundry comming down.
Bewitching and enchanting??!! Where were you when I needed you at the beginning of the week?!
Also- are you Harry Potter?