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Children love imaginative play and a playhouse creates the ultimate space for the imagination to soar. It is a private intimate space that children build for themselves without outside (adult) interference. Think of the cozy cave that you created as a child with chairs, blankets, cardboard boxes and found objects. Parents can continue to encourage this feeling of a homemade playhouse without effort, by buying a cardboard playhouse that children can colour and paint themselves (cardboarddesign, KidEco, Paperpod and Villa Carton). The choice of cardboard as a material may seem short-lived, but it has been used by one of the world’s most innovative and original designer, Javier Mariscal, and exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair and at London’s Design Museum (Villa Juilia). So why not let your child be proud of a house that they have assembled, personalised, decorated, occupied and dissembled. It might seem strange to let a child destroy a toy, but it often helps a child understand how objects are made. Children just love being in complete control of their environment.

Some cardboard creations act as screens instead of houses and can be used as play kitchens or theaters (Carton Chic and Corraini Edizioni). For parents who prefer a more permanent version of a play screen, Little Red Stuga makes one out of wood that also works as a room divider. For kids who love to build, Spaceframe Sculpture Kit by Scott Klinker turns into fort, a house or a sculpture; it is made from recycled soda bottles.