Floating Pirate Ship Bedroom In Minnesota Designed By Steve Kuhl of Kuhl Design Build (Photo)
By Alex Madlangbayan on Apr 21, 2011 in Amazing, Arts, Lifestyle, United States • 55 comments |
Image Credit: kuhldesignbuild.com
Steve Kuhl has created a unique floating pirate ship inside the bedroom of his client’s six year-old-son in Minnesota, according to reports by several news sites.
Kuhl is the CEO, Creative Director, Business Development and Micro-manager of Kuhl Design Build.
The bedroom design was chosen by the boy among several options that includes a space ship, race car, castle and the pirate ship.
The floating pirate ship features an old ship’s hull made from 2×12 ribs, covered with layers of 1/2 inch plywood to serve as the planking.
The bedroom has a connecting rope bridge leading to the top of a jail cell. There is a rope, suspended from the ship’s hull, that provides drop-in access to the closet.
One of the attraction of the bedroom is a hidden spiral slide that serves as an alternative way to go downstairs.
Below are some of the images inside the floating pirate ship bedroom designed by Steve Kuhl. Click the page number below to navigate through the images.
The bedroom rope bridge that connects the pirate ship to the top of the jail cell.
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woooooooooooooooooooooow i want that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some people just have way too much money. I know a family where all the kids sleep in one bedroom. They have no heating so the older boys run outside before bedtime and come in all warm and toasty. Then the little ones snuggle with them to get warm enough to fall asleep. I wonder if they even have a pair of pajamas???????????
OMG! that kid is spoiled. how much does that cost?????????????
That must be the luckiest ,happiest kid in the world
That is one awesome room! I would have LOVED to have a room like that when I was a kid. For all the haters on here trying to pull the guilt trip on these people… GET A LIFE!!! Ok so there are kids starving in Africa and families who are living in poverty and in a 1 bedroom apartment. Does that mean that people should NEVER buy nice things WITH THEIR OWN MONEY?!?!? This family is fortunate enough to be able to afford nice things for their kids… What’s wrong with that? It seems like it’s more sour grapes and envy… If you guys had that kind of money you wouldn’t hesitate to buy nice things for you and the ones you love…
OMG…..they have to much money…..when are people going to learn nothing becomes a child being spoiled……
What an artistic person. Mr. Kuhl has truly been given a wonderful gift of creativity. I would love my 25 year old severly special needs son to have a room as wonderful as that!!!!
Now THIS exemplifies every parent’s dream I think…that one day they will be successful enough to give their children the things they weren’t able to have when they were kids. Talk about a reason to work hard!
To the haters…unless you’re logging on from a free internet cafe where you’re drinking a complimentary cup of tepid water because you’ve given ALL your spare cash to help the needy…well, let’s just say it’s hypocritical to be sitting in a house (rented or owned) while wearing comfortable clothes on your personal computer after having a nice meal, maybe with a glass of chardonay or a beer at hand, and criticize someone else for NOT giving the money THEY worked hard for to the ‘less fortunate’. If that IS your philosophy, then you should be living in a tent in a field wearing 2nd hand clothes, and walking to work every day before signing away most of your own paycheck to help said unfortunates.
^This. Perfect explanation.
What a wonderfully talented man to create such a wonderful space for a little boy !
That little boy will grow up knowing his parents are giving all they have for his happiness…..
We should all be so lucky !!!
First of all this is really awesome I would love to have a bedroom like this too but I can’t help to wonder about the safety quality of the bedroom… I mean this does look like a bedroom with the worst kind of accident to happen. What if the house caught on fire suddenly, and the kid is stuck in the tunnel or something and the fact that wood spread fire easily too, what if the ship suddenly fell apart and all that… and I don’t think anyone with claustrophobic can live in here… what if the boy suddenly become claustrophobic because of his bedroom? And how tall is that rope bridge from the floor anyway? Maybe it’s just the pictures they kinda look dangerous…
Who gives a damn about that kid getting one. I don’t care if the money could be used to save starving kids in poor strange lands. If you have a problem with what people spend their money on then every time you pull a dollar out think about how you could be skipping that McDonalds drive through and the Star Bucks in the morning to save them. In the mean time hell with that I am getting me a pirate themed bedroom. Yar theres booty to be had maties!!!
So let me get this straight….when the kid is bad, like really bad, if the parents want to punish him, they send him to his room? Such abuse is outrageous!!! Is he being home schooled and one of his subjects is ‘Pirating’ 101 ? And NO, I repeat NO!!! I am NOT a Hater. At least the kid, maybe just a little with the parents. Not only does the little boy grow up knowing his parents are giving all they have for his happiness, as one commenter states (A. Cooper), it seems like he’ll grow up wanting, wanting, wanting, and getting, getting, and getting and not have to do anything to earn or deserve it. Just sayin’….
Next time make the bedroom look like Osama Bin Ladin’s Al Quaida’s hideout. It would make the kid happy.
Kinda puts a whole new spin on telling an unruly kid “Go to yor room”.
I think its cool that such creativity can be displayed in different ways. My son has a cool room as well, but he would go bonkers if he saw this. I hope he doesn’t, otherwise I may have to hire Mr. Kuhl to do some renovations.
Very cool! I would have loved something like that when I was a kid. It is nice to be able to take care of the ones you love and give them something to spark their imagination. Who knows, maybe the kid will choose a oceanographic career or become an architect? It is fabulous how someone can see a space and create such a wonderful work of art. I would have liked to have seen the rejected designs.
All this room is missing is some Somali’s.
That room aint gonna be too cool when the brat becomes a teenager.
U.S. finacial wooows ,near 10% National unemployment, over 170 000 forclosures And these lovely folks in the mid-west not only build this (quite beatiful} 6 years olds bedroom, But have the
“Kindness” to share it with the rest of America and the World.. That s a way to go.
To be honest I think this a wonderful thing! What an amazing design! I would have loved to have this bedroom as a little kid, to be honest I’d love to have this as an adult too. I don’t see a reason to hate on what these parents did. They are allowing their kids imagination to grow and while at the same time letting them be a kid. Sure there are a lot of pros and cons to this I admit. Though in the end, these parents are giving their kid a chance to have fun. Fun a thing all kids need to have when they are little, and not only that but they are giving them a chance to dream. In reality every person young and old need to dream a little, it helps us grow. Imagine how much fun it must be for that kid to be in that room. Dreaming of sailing the seven seas, plundering ships for the treasure they hold, and being the captain of a ship. It’s like a dream come true; a dream out of fairytale books. The books people most people read to their children when they are young, as this kid is.
As for those saying they shouldn’t spend their hard earned – even I disagree with that. It’s their money not yours who’s to say they should or shouldn’t spoil their kid. It’s their freedom too. This is coming from someone, who though my family doesn’t earn a lot, I did try to donate a dollar or two to Japan. Yet I still believe the money someone earns is their money to spend how they wish.
A fool and his money soon do part.
Totally awesome room
Maybe the kid will hang himself from that nice rope when he is to depressed to enjoy life
The bedroom is wonderful but the concept of spending this much money on your child’s bedroom is wrong.It doesn’t matter how much money you have, you are not teaching your son values.You are setting a standard for his future life and expectations, that he will never be able to surpass or maybe even come equal to.It is not our toys or our outsides, it is our insides that we should be thinking about. These are the values that we need to talk to our kids about. The above makes a house not a home.We weren’t a perfect family but my sons and I made a little shed house together and we still remember it with affection.Would it not have been better for Dad & son to build something together?
Are you kidding me this is GREAT! As for those who say too much, who are you to say, and I would bet a million if I had it that DADDY and SON play on this together all the time!
Beautiful design!
So what if these parents worked hard, made good life decisions, got an education, etc, and can afford to buy their son a nice room? Giving your children nice things isn’t what “spoils” them, anyway.
The criticism frustrates me. How do you know the parents don’t make massive donations to charity? Can you not find it in your heart to just say, “Good for you!” ? We are taught here in the land of opportunity to strive to be successful. But if you are, watch out. Plenty of people will tear you down because of it. Very petty.
Seems to me it is awesome. A tree house was fun too! Never worried about breaking our necks. We climbed and swung out of the tree. That was some 48 yrs ago. He will remember great times.
Dad will too. Envious you bet ya!! Realistic that too. Have fun, enjoy life it is way to damn short.
Sean Tate, i couldnt have said it better. Right on.
Wow what a master piece. Mr. Kuhl is a talented artist to come up with something like this. I hope this child is grateful that his parents would get him something like this. Sweet dreams young dreamer.
I have nothing against parents being able to buy nice things for their children, but spoiling them can be a problem. They will grow up thinking that everything in life is handed to them. Buying them nice things, now and again, is all well, but there should be a limit. Besides, I’m pretty sure a family with this amount of money more than helps those that aren’t so fortunate.
Very unique and cool. If I could, I would give my daughter an imaginative room like this one. Way to go and lucky kid. He will surely enjoy it for a long time.
I know obviously… you took your first glance at this image and had to take another. It was… because it was amazing, outrageous, different, and most of all something that sparked your curiosity. I really saddens me to know so many people have such a raw opinion on an image that made you say “awe, neat, wow, or maybe awesome”.
If only Americans didn’t have a personal issue of there own insecurities, fears, disappointments, jealousy, or maybe we could say envy. For once think of the first reaction when it was just a picture of some talented artist displaying his unique work. Work that is indeed a successful and appreciated, needed, and especially wanted work of art.
For the Love of God, don’t read into EVERYTHING you see or hear. Just appreciate, the world would be a kinder place if everyone would just worry about what going on under your own roof instead of everyone else’s…
Lol this kid is going to be messed up for his entire childhood when it comes to sleepovers. When he get’s to his friends houses he’s probably going to have a fit without that slide to wake up too! OR, he could just host all the sleepovers. When I was a kid I just wanted clouds painted in my room, I would have never though that big, it looks nice but then there is a bed on the floor with a ratty looking bedspread
. I really do like the room, looks like they spent enough money on it, but what’s up with a non-pirate themed bed spread?
You can’t guilt trip me into not buying a nice house or a designer wardrobe or a nicely created and decorated room. I don’t eat all the food off of my plate, but kids will still be starving in Ethiopia. I donate when, where and how I want to, why should this family have to pay for those who are less fortunate just because they have the means? Maybe they spent their life savings on the room because the little boy has cancer and doesn’t have long to live. You never know what someones situation is so keep your opinions out of other peopls pockets!
Anywho, the only thing I really hate about the pictures other than that bedspread is the fact that the 6 year old isn’t in any of the pictures enjoying the room, I wanna see him sliding down the slide or climbing down that rope into the closet! Is the ship a bed or just a walkway to the slide?
@ Chris G.: I don’t think it’s envy driving these peoples comments. However, such luxuries like this room just show the absurd amount of money that can be better spent to do more productive things. People can do whatever they want with their money but what may upset other readers is the fact that other people can barely survive and yet we have this boy here who is living in a room that most likely cost above $50,000 to construct. Perhaps you and others like you should look at the theory of marginal utility…it’s unfair that we have people (including some of this guy’s neighbors and members of his community) who are struggling to make ends meet, yet this guy can lavish his children with such nonsensical gifts.
I do not have a problem with the kid getting this AWESOME bedroom. But being a mother of 2 and a nurse I do have this one question “How do you clean the inside of a huge curly slide located within the structure of your house?” Because you know that kid is going to get it disgusting. You can’t run a hose down it or pour buckets of water down because that could cause water damage to the flooring at the bottom and could leak through the seams where the slide was put together in pieces causing further water damage behind your walls. Not to mention rot. Plus the kid is probably going to bring food and drinks in there at some point. I think there is only one option tie a soapy sponge to the kid’s butt and let him slide down a bunch. Or better yet hire some poor kids who can’t afford a pirate slide room to slide down with the soapy sponge! Then you are not only protecting your child from mold and bacteria in his slide but you are also giving back to the less fortunate! lol. Also, yeah it would be super awesome to have that in your bedroom but it would be even more awesome if it were also his bed. Lastly, isn’t all off that rope stuff kind of unsafe? yeah Billy drop into your closet from a rope through a tiny hole. What is the worst that could happen? Certainly not a concussion from hitting your head that’s for sure. On the up side the bedroom playground is promoting physical exercise. A+ for creativity.
@Sean Tate: WELL SAID. Just because this child is fortunate enough to have a dad that can provide this AWESOME room for him does NOT mean that he is spoiled! The same goes for being able to afford this. We live in a capitalist society and unless you live in a communist country where EVERYONE (but the government) is living on the same amount of money there will ALWAYS be less fortunate people but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be grateful that you CAN buy nice things for yourself and appreciate them without feeling guilty that others don’t have the same things you do. How do you haters know that this man doesn’t give money to charity? Should he live like a pauper just because there are poor people on the planet? DO YOU LIVE LIKE PAUPERS? Such ignorant comments!
that is so cool.
Hey Victoriam, Why dont you do something about the poor children you mentioned instead of chastizing the more fortunate ones? Put your money where your mouth is. Or better yet, report those conditions to the child authorities who have the power to change what you obviously consider deplorable. Your only action shouldn’t be to complain about the more fortunate.
I love it, I want one!
Nadine,you are just as offensive in your language toward Americans as the people here are….. towards an image.So what makes you any better????????Beating up on Americans,I’d say that makes you a BULLY…….I’m an American and Proud of It!!! Oh……. and I have a great appreciation for the arts as well.I’m also a very creative person, and can appreciate others creativity too!”No Matter They’re Nationality”
Whatever happened to the saying……..If you can’t say something nice and leave out all your crap,better say nothing at all…………………… Kudos to Steve Kuhl ( A Great Craftman) and to the father of the little boy, who will have endless fun and great childhood memories to take with him into adulthood.
is KUHL pronounced cool, because this is awesome.
Seriously……..if they have the money….whatever. But I think it’s a bit over the top. However, if you were the designer, you would LOVE to get this job. And if someone wants to pay for it—-why not?!?!?!
But I also think that there are several problems with the whole thing.
1-The slide—-what if the kid gets stuck? Or gains weight over the next year or so? Or freaks out 1/2 way down? Or he has a sleep-over, gone wrong. Or his little sister makes him mad and he jams her in there. Is Mommy or Daddy going in?
2-The HOLE-That’s a long drop through that narrow hole in the closet ceiling! And the closet door below looks like it would hurt if you hit that corner. Maybe that’s where you throw your OLD best friend when he messes with your “stuff”.
3-A bridge? Ever get mad at your sibling for coming into your room?? NUFF SAID!!
Oh well. In a few years they’ll just buy another house and start over because “junior” won’t like his room any more.
Stop with all the HATING HATERS. That’s a really nice room. If I had money to burn, I probably would have done the same thing when my kid was younger. If you got it flaunt it, cause when you leave this earth you can’t take it with you!
First of all, the child will not be messed up, most likely, his friends have wonderful rooms as well (maybe not quite as cool) but as they say, birds of a feather flock together. Secondly, I don’t think “they” are in to the whole matching the bedspread/comforter thing. Lastly, to all of those who expect just because this family has the resources to provide their son with a really cool room, that they should be taking care of those in the community that have less, what in the world is that about? Those other individuals have opportunities (many times MORE GRANTS, GOVERMENTAL PAID EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ETC.) to receive an education, seek employment, make wise investments, and invest wisely. WHY ON EARTH SHOULD ANYONE BE GIVING THEIR OPINION ON WHAT THESE PEOPLE SHOULD DO WITH THEIR OWN INCOME….? I guarantee, those offering their two cents on that matter are unemployed!
And furthermore, it is probably these very individuals that DO give generously to many non-profits in their local community (if not out of the generosity of their heart, then for tax purposes) so people need to worry less about their own short comings and celebrate this talented designer and blessed young boy and pray for the children whose parents complain on line rather than spend time with their children… off to read to my babies… good night!
I would *SO* love to do this for my own 6yr old son! if I had the money, I would do it. The kids bedroom here is easily bigger than my own in an Apt. I do what I can for my kid. I have no hate for parents who would put this much thought for their child.
Yes, getting in trouble would still be bad. Just do a time out somewhere else, a corner, no computer, etc. Mine has had his own PC since he was 2 years old. He is grounded from using it at this moment.
I’m not rich, but I give thumbs up for the design. Hopefully I can my into a house in a year or so and yet spending $1000 for a club-house jungle gym setup is about the best I’ll be able to budget.
Safety = Looks good. You have a full grown man walking around up there. The bridge has netting. For a 4yr old, it would be dangerous. 6 years old, its easily safer that most public or school playgrounds.
Teenager = The room should last until the kid turns about 12 or so. Some of us guys DON’T ever really grow up.
The jail can be removed, and the pirate ship turned into an upper deck area for a small office. The tunnel would stay, of course.
Quick update:
Kuhl had designed and built this about 6 years ago for his brother and 2 kids. They have since moved OUT into another house.
The current home owners have a teenager living in that room, who still uses the pirate ship and the slide. Everyone loves slides.
This is WAY COOL!!!! If I could I would have this guy make my daughter a room! That’s a great job! I wish I was that kid! Have Fun, as we all no u would! Lol
Even though I can’t afford this, I love it. I agree with Pirate Girl71.
Oh be quiet! You people are quite simple (the ones complaining).
The kid will not grow up to be expectant and needy. It is not what you buy your children, it’s how you raise them.
How do you know that the kid has not just survived cancer or done something amazing to deserve such a room?
And just because you buy your kid something nice or outrageous once in awhile does not mean that they are spoiled. If you can afford to do this for your kid, more power to you! I don’t see why a child should have to settle with a plain old bedroom if their parents can afford something this grand.
My dad makes quite a bit of money too and when I was a kid he used to buy me anything I asked for. This didn’t make me depend on him, it made me want to be like him! I want to succeed in life just like my parents so I can have a good life and buy my kids the things they want.
And as a parent, who WOULDN’T want this for their child? If I have that kind of money in the future, you’re damn right my kid’s getting a pirate ship in their bedroom.
The artistry of the room is amazing. I toast the artist. This must have been an awesome opportunity for him. As an artist myself I know how lucrative being an artist is — not at all. Even though he owns a business, doesn’t mean he’s rich. My boyfriend owns a business and he’s not rich by any stretch of the imagination.
Ok, I have a few comments. 1. This is one awesome room but wouldn’t it be more awesome if that ship were his bed too? 2. How do you clean a giant curly slide located within the structure of your house? I personally think that you should hir…e poor kids who can’t afford a pirate ship bedroom and strap soapy sponges to their butts and have them slide down a bunch. Then you are both protecting your child from mold and bacteria building up inside his slide and helping the less fortunate! 3. Um…I am certainly not going to tell any person how to parent their own child. But, I am fairly certain that a rope bridge suspended 5 or 6 feet in the air and a knotted rope hanging through a small opening in the ceiling poses a safety concern. As an EMT I learned that a traumatic fall injury is considered a fall from a height that is double the height of the patient or higher. The average 6 year old boy is 3 1/2 ft. tall (this is a 6 year old boy’s room) the drop from the opening in the closet is probably 6 or 7 feet add in the good possibility that the kid could possibly hit his head on the edge of that opening and you have the perfect recipe for turning your son into a parapalegic. “Expensive, unsafe pirate rooms! The best way to help your special little guy get enough brain damage to become a “special” little man” Once again not my business just seemed like a fact worth throwing out there. 4. On the other hand that is definitely a good way to ensure your kid gets exercise. Especially if you put the Xbox 360 at the top of the ship!
That is so amazing!
but writer, that is not a “steering wheel”… Good Lord….
Mandy, completely agree… thinking what amazing opportunities for a kid to get hurt, seriously permanently hurt… we see it all the time in “normal” rooms.
agreed, I would have loved to see it ground level…. sea and clouds painted around.
It just proves you do not have to have common sense to have money and money can’t buy it common sense.
Or even architects with common sense.
An incredible bit of work though… to every detail
It’s his $$ let him spend it how he wants if he wants to build his kid this awesome room more power to him. Stop your jealous rantings. To the poster who knows a family with no heat and a single bedroom why aren’t YOU helping that family? Stop trying to make other people take care of social problems around you.