Kids Furniture In Brooklyn, NY: Showroom Details & Info
With over 30 years of experience building custom-made furniture, over time, our showroom and manufacturing operations have taken on a life of their own. If you’re nearby – including the greater New York area, New Jersey, and Connecticut – you should consider stopping in before ordering a piece of custom furniture.
With our furniture recently being featured in the 2023 International Contemporary Furniture Fair, we’ve since been making strides in our design of new and exciting pieces coming into 2024:
Our unique showroom features
If you’re interested in seeing how we build our custom kid’s furniture, you’re going to want to visit our showroom in-person. Ultimately, the best way to make sure you end up with the perfect piece is to involve your entire family – so make a day out of it, and bring your kids along with you.
In our showroom, you’ll be able to physically test out our most popular models, including beds; so make sure you properly prepare for this by bringing with you pictures of your unused space, a rough sketch of the kids room in question, and lots of measurements, along with your family.
While at our shop, we’ll be able to guide you around – if you’re interested in purchasing any custom furniture, make sure to ask us about a tour of our production facility when you show up. It’s likely you’ll stumble upon us planning or crafting:
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Murphy beds – also known as folding beds
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Desks and storage spaces
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Occasional discounted pieces from our furniture resale program
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Bespoke projects and expansions
Note: showroom visits are by appointment only, make sure to schedule an appointment using our sign-up form:
Who should consider a showroom visit – and why?
To avoid any confusion about who should actually come in and see our furniture first-hand, let’s talk a bit about why you might want to. Like mentioned above, seeing a product in-person is much different than online. Without physically coming to our showroom and checking out what we have to offer, you’ll be at a slight disadvantage in terms of knowing what you’re actually buying.
While this doesn’t matter for most, there’s really no reason not to come in if you live nearby – we even host school field-trips for schools in Brooklyn, NY or other nearby areas. From our showroom, it’s much easier for us to sort out details such as:
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Dispelling any concerns for those with unique homes – think low ceilings or compact spaces
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Crafting furniture shared between multiple children, and making sure all of them are happy
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Testing to see whether or not younger kids are truly ready for a bunk or big kid bed
Access to expert opinions
Coming into our showroom also means you’ll have access to expert opinions about your space. Between our owner and designer Roberto Gil’s encyclopedic knowledge of furniture and the rest of the team’s manufacturing experience, any questions you and your little one have can be answered in detail.
If you’ve brought along measurements and drawings, these can be compared in-person to actual pieces of furniture – it’s much easier to make a decision when you can touch and feel a high-quality product and get an idea of how it would actually appear in your home.
Your kid’s opinion matters
And let’s not understate how important being able to investigate new things is for growing kids. If you’re buying a bed or loft meant for a kids room (places they'll be hanging out often), letting them choose between different materials and features is the best way to ensure a comfy night’s rest.
In fact, kids who come prepared are our favorites; one way to make the entire process easier is to include your child's voice in your overall decision. For example, it’s totally fine by us to let them decide on the color, material, and other unique personalized options we have available.
If all else fails, we’ve also stocked our showroom with lots of toys and mini furniture models to distract kids with too much energy!
Customer testimonials and portfolio examples
Nowadays, reviews and testimonials matter. There’s no denying the importance of actually delivering on promises – and our reviews reflect our ability to do so:
Here’s one of our recent Google Reviews:
Chen Connie
9 reviews. 11 photos
5 star image a week ago NEW
We ordered casa kids for the nursery and it came out just as I wanted! We have 12 ft high ceiling and is really hard to find high bunk bed furniture to maximize the space. After communicating with Francis, he understood my needs right away, and designed a beautiful set for the room. The delivery was smooth as well, and the detail of the furniture was excellent. I highly recommend casa kids, and we will definitely come back for future kids custom furniture.
And another thorough review left on Yelp:
Durand T.
Los Angeles, CA @00 14
5 star image Apr 19, 2021
Long overdue review for a Cabina Bunk Bed. Have nothing but good things to say about this bed. Communication from purchase through shipping (everything is smartly packaged so there was no shipping damage) and follow up was excellent. The bed is very well made, incredibly easy to put together since all the hardware is interchangeable (still takes a couple hours but that's to be expected), and the footprint is smaller than the single bed we replaced. One of the main reasons I picked this bed is that it is rated to hold 400 pounds which means either my wife or I can read books on the top bunk with our daughter (seems like most bunk beds out there only support around 200 pounds which adds up fast if you start with a 50 pound mattress) and even at 6'2" I can comfortably sit and read on the bottom bunk with my son which was a welcome surprise. This bed is probably one of my favorite pieces of furniture in our house and I have not a single regret about the purchase.
If you’re curious to see some of our completed projects, you should spend a bit of time checking out or portfolio examples, including our:
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Single room examples
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Shared room setups for multiple children, such as bunk beds and loft beds
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Our Casa Collection portfolio, showcasing pieces designed for adults
Getting to the Casa Kids showroom
Showroom Address: 106 Ferris St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Our showroom is nestled within the laid-back Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY – a convenient location for residents of the city itself and anyone living nearby who’s willing to make the short drive out here, including:
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The greater NYC area
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Westchester County, NY
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Newark, NJ
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Stamford, CT
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Greenwich, CT
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New Canaan, CT
From Westchester County, NY
Directions: if you’re coming from Westchester County, you’ll want to travel via I-87 S and I-278 W or via Sprain Brook Pkwy S – expect around 1 hour of driving.
From Newark, NJ
Directions: if you’re coming from Newark, you’ll want to travel via Newark-Jersey City Turnpike or via I-278 E or via I-95 N – expect around 40 minutes of driving.
From Stamford, CT
Directions: if you’re coming from Stamford, you’ll want to travel via I-95 S and FDR Drive and I-278 W – expect around 1 hour of driving.
From Greenwich, CT
Directions: if you’re coming from Greenwich, you’ll want to travel via I-95 S and I-278 W – expect around 1 hour of driving.
From New Canaan, CT
Directions: if you’re coming from New Canaan, you’ll want to travel via Hutchinson River Parkway S and CT-15 S – expect around 1 hour and 15 minutes of driving.
Furniture delivery and consultation services
Let’s talk about our deliveries and custom-installations. If you aren’t able to come and see our showroom in-person, you can also have your new furniture delivered and installed by our team. Our delivery and installation page covers this process in detail, and should answer any questions you have about our white glove delivery service.
Home consultations are a possibility for families who would prefer one of our team members making the trek out to your house. Once there, they can take measurements and photographs, discuss any specific needs you may have, and meet with your child before heading back to the studio to draw up some plans – home consultations start at $800 with $500 being credited towards projects over $10,000.
Not only that, but we also do remote consultations for those who can’t make it but still want a bit of one-on-one attention. If you’re located further away but still want to create a custom bedroom setup, that’s your best option – remote consultations come with a $500 fee that will be credited towards purchases above $10,000 per room.
Check the Casa Kids blog to learn more
If you’re on the fence about a particular piece, it may help you to do a bit of research on kid’s furniture in general – choosing between so many modular designs can be hard (another reason to visit our showroom).
Over on the Casa Kids blog, you can find guides full of pictures and detailed explanations on most kinds of furniture; anything from our definitive guide to kids bed styles and choosing the right bunk bed to picking out the right size bed – and much more.
MEET THE DESIGNER
Brooklyn-based architect, designer and father of two Roberto Gil was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received his Masters in Architecture from Harvard University in 1990, and worked as an architect for Fox & Fowle and Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York before starting his furniture company in 1992. Roberto’s colorful pieces were soon seen in the windows of Barneys New York, FAO Schwarz and in the museum shops of the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim and the MoMA. Roberto has designed successful furniture collections for Crate and Barrel and Williams-Sonoma. His influences include Gerit Rietveld, Jean Prouve, Le Corbusier and Donald Judd, as well as a delight in everyday objects and pop culture.
As an architect, Roberto understands the space in which his furniture lives, particularly the small, oddly shaped rooms that often characterize urban dwellings. Roberto finds creative, customized solutions to the challenges these spaces pose through an understanding of circulation, lighting, orientation, air flow, and privacy - and how these elements affect the layout of a room.
Ultimately, Roberto’s pieces are less designed than constructed. They are marked by an efficient use of materials and intuitive connection systems, and it is no surprise that he cites sawhorses and scaffolding as inspirations for his own version of practical minimalism.
To watch where Roberto gets his creativity and why he started to design, please view that video
THE EARLY DESIGNS
Since its founding in 1992, Casa Kids has embraced a simple approach to its designs: functionality above decor and durability over most everything else. We achieve longevity in our products by building adaptable systems of furniture that are designed to evolve just as kids do. Once a child grows out of his or her loft bed, for example, the cabinets underneath the loft can be moved and used as independent pieces. None of the rooms we design are themed so the furniture will never appear dated or outgrown. We have been watching children interact with our furniture for more than 25 years and our designs are shaped by their size and scale, as well as by how the world looks from their (slightly shorter) perspectives. Our furniture is ergonomically appropriate for children’s smaller bodies and is designed to engage a child’s imagination by providing safe and creative spaces for work and play.
Proudly Made in Brooklyn
At Casa Kids, being good to the kids we serve also means being kind to the planet they call home. We only use wood that has been harvested through sustainable practices and all of our products are made locally, eliminating the environmental impact implicit in shipping. Our custom bedroom furniture is also modular and highly adaptive, so it remains with the families we service for years. This dramatically reduces waste and promotes sustainability in terms of our planet’s natural resources.
All of our furniture is built in Brooklyn by our own small team of woodworkers, and the hands that make the first cut into a piece of birch plywood (our most commonly used material) are the same hands that install a piece of furniture in a customer’s home. We employ traditional hand woodworking techniques, in addition to our new CNC router that has allowed us to increase precision and consistency in our cuts, as well reduce lead times for our customers. We do the finishing for all of our pieces ourselves in our on-site finishing facilities.
Home installation for all of our projects is done with our own insured, likable, and speedy crew. We are usually in and out of customers’ homes in one to two days (depending on the project) because we assemble all of our projects ahead of time in our shop. This ensures a quick, clean installation so that our customers can get back to living their lives. In their new furniture, of course.
Casa Kids’ showroom is located at 106 Ferris Street in Red Hook, directly adjacent to our wood shop, where parents and kids are invited to visit us in our natural habitat. With a view of the shop, where our builders are hard at work, kids are invited to touch, climb and play, while parents have an opportunity to speak with our staff. The showroom, shop and design studio are located in a brick warehouse that sits directly on the Brooklyn waterfront and offers a view of the Statue of Liberty and lower Manhattan. A visit to the shop is also a great excuse to explore Red Hook, where IKEA, Fairway, and a series of cozy storefronts and cafes have made their homes.
MATERIALS WE USE
Our beds are made with baltic birch plywood, a very strong material that is certified by both the FSC (Forest Steward Council) and CARB (California Air Resources Board). This assures that the trees were legally harvested and that the bonding glue has no formaldehyde in it. We never use particle board, which is a much lower grade material that disintegrates over time. Our finishes are water-based, non-toxic, and safe for toys. The surfaces of our plywood are rolled with an acrylic based coating, it is UV cured and have no VOC’s (volatile organic compounds). The edges are hand brushed with a natural wax oil that provides a smooth finish.
Our primary finishes are birch, oak, walnut, and white. Accents can be added in white. Plywood edges will always be exposed on our furniture, regardless of finish. Custom accent colors can be requested. We will match your color of choice with a Benjamin Moore swatch. Contact us directly for custom colors.
WHY PLYWOOD INSTEAD OF SOLID WOOD?
Solid wood has many limitations. Lumber boards rarely exceed 8" or 10" in width and they expand and contract with seasonal moisture changes. This phenomenon creates warpage, cracks and checks on the wood that are irreversible and hard to predict. In the "old days", older and larger trees were available and inexpensive. Plus there was more time to let the lumber dry. Today, trees are cut at a much younger age plus we have become aware of how damaging it is for the environment to destroy our natural forests. The FSC certification assure that the wood that we use comes from trees that are from managed plantations and renewable sources. Plywood instead is a very efficient way of using the tree. A plywood panel is a "sandwich" of many layers of thin wood, also called veneers. The tree logs are sliced into thin sheets very much like you sharpen a pencil in a rotary motion. All these layers of thin birch wood are glued under pressure creating a plywood sheet, typically 48" by 96". This is a very efficient way of using wood since little is wasted in the peeling of the timber. It also allows us to create pieces that are much wider than any single piece of lumber and since the layers are glued to each other alternating the grain direction, warpage and movement due to moisture changes do not happen.
The birch plywood we use is typically ¾” thick and is composed of 13 layers of the same material. We leave the edges exposed since birch is a very strong wood and the lines that show in the edges have a natural appeal.
Ready to start your custom project?
If you are in the NYC area, or just have questions about our modern furniture collections, we invite you to connect with Casa Kids today.