Buying furniture for your baby can be quite expensive not only in the monetary terms but facing with the fact that they will outgrow it in few months and then again you will be expected to buy new gears. Buying a convertible baby gear that grows with your baby will minimize your replacement purchases down the line. These baby gears come handy and provide utmost comfort to your baby. Here are 5 most popular convertible gears that grows with your baby.
1. Genius Transformer Baby Gear: The Koo transforms from bassinet to rocker
Manufacturer: Lunar
A simply amazing design concept, it is an antidote for bleary-eyed and sleep deprived parents. Designed by Sandrine Lebas for California-based Lunar and launched at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in May 2010, it is a 2-in-1rocker that transforms into a bassinet. Minimalist, simple and useful, this rocker can be changed in to a bassinet and also into a comfortable chair for you to feed your baby and back again when you’re finished, all with just one handed maneuver. This product is still in its prototyping phase.
2. Baby’s Rocking Cradle by Martin Price transforms into two rocking chairs
Manufacturer: Martin Price
This rocking cradle has been designed and developed after years of researching and understanding parents sentiments towards their kids possessions. Made from ash wood and foam mattress, this rocking cradle can be given a new life after it serves its purpose. As such, this rocking cradle can be converted into two amazing rocking chairs. Though this chic rocking hasn’t been given a price yet, one can order or inquire about its rate at Martin Price’s blog where after he will send his quote.
3. Kids racing car flips to become a rocking chair
Manufacturer: Mid Mod
A German vintage play car for kids, it was designed somewhere in the 1950s by Hans Brockhage and Erwin Andra. This play car can be transformed into a rocking chair by just turning it upside-down. With a height of 40cm (15.75″inches), it is 100cm (39.37″inches) wide and 38cm (14.96″inches) deep, this beautifully crafted toy comes with a smooth bent beech frame and molded plywood seat. To keep this play car running, it has red wooden wheels with rubber tires that add a nostalgic appeal.
4. Baby Changing Table Dresser converts to office desk as child grows
Manufacturer: Caster & Choca
This is a thoughtful furniture which will sustain for years to come. Multi-useable furniture for your baby, it easy to use in your home for many years even after your baby is grown. This changing table from Caster and Choca comes as a convenient baby changing station that comes with a built-in mattress, two lateral shelves and two pivoting side drawers. Designed and made by artisans in Paris, this bamboo changing station is large enough to accommodate all of your baby’s necessities. Once your baby is all grown, it can be converted into a desk complete with drawers for storing your things. Made from the highest-quality sustainable bamboo to create this heirloom, it also has a small secret drawer, body molding mattress with a washable cover and a zip fastener. This baby changing station is available in three colors: turquoise, beige, taupe.
5. Convertible Bassinet/Desk by YiAhn
Manufacturer: Min Kang
“YiAhn” (pronounced like e-ahn) is a bassinet designed by Brooklyn-based industrial designer Min Kang as a gift for his new born baby son. A bassinet named after his son, it morphs into different pieces as your child grows up. The bassinet transforms into a storage bin and bench for toddlers then later a chair and table for early learners. A clean bassinet with modern lines and an eco design, this multifunctional bassinet turns from baby bed to toy bin and from a bookshelf to chair and table, meeting your little one’s furniture needs all the way through elementary school. Crafted and composed from renewable, low-toxic Plyboo i.e. bamboo plywood, stainless steel, chrome metal and 100% cotton sheets, the YiAhn bassinet uses a simple rope tie system to fasten the modular components together. To buy this bassinet, you can go to the My Baby’s First Furniture website.
