Help us to make a difference by purchasing a raffle ticket online at www.cubbyhousechallenge.org.au or by bidding on our cubby house at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show live auction, Sunday April 1st at 3pm.

 

Thank you for supporting the Kids Under Cover Cubby House Challenge 2012.  By doing so you are helping to prevent homelessness, changing the lives of young people and helping them to reach their full potential

 

 

 

 

  

 

A little about our design

 

Smith Madden’s design reflects the Kids Under Cover message;  keeping young people connected to the home and encouraging strong inter-family relationships.  Our design also embraces forming & nurturing the bonds of peer friendships.  The space is age neutral, with a focus on tweens to teens – not the customary Cubby-user age bracket.

 

The form brings a sculptural element to the garden; a building block is deconstructed, manipulated, stacked, dissected and twisted in the essence of play.

 

The building block celebrates many aspects of childhood, family and community;  for a child it is an object for creative play;   as a symbol of the building blocks of family relationships and it also celebrates the most basic needs for shelter & personal space.

 

Timber building blocks are movable and create transient spaces to encourage interaction with family and friends; they may be stacked to form a fort wall;  scattered  as seating for a party;  arrayed into an imaginary auditorium to view a child’s play;  build a platform for a grand performance.  Above all they encourage imagination on a large scale.  A wall folds open to reveal the space to the environment;  we imagine children performing a play;  a garden wall disguises & insulates another aspect of the Cubby House, herbs add a sensory & educational element.

 

Timber and rope are timeless materials for building & playing.  These materials will weather well with the elements, blending into the surrounding garden.  Ropes support plant life, provide another element for play, hanging of blankets for a stage curtain, et cetera.  Colour is introduced in wedges of tinted windows, providing glimpses of the garden from a comfortable reading nook. 

 

This space is for a tween to grow into, to provide a haven and to evolve onto a personal space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Materials Donations

 

 

 

Cash donation $3,000

www.craftsmen.com.au

 

 

 

Cladding

Value of donation $1,372

www.taitflooring.com.au

 

 

 

Interior Plywood

Timber is a predominant feature of our Cubby House, and we feel that your product is perfect for our design to bring this feature on the exterior & interior in a rather fun way.

Value of donation $1,205

http://www.australply.com.au/

 

 

 

Exterior Plywood

 

http://www.bowens.com.au/home/

Value of donation - $500 plywood

 

 

 

Roofing, Flashing & Gutter

http://stratco.com.au/

 

 

 

Flooring

Donation - Embelton Eurocork cork flooring

http://www.floorworld.com.au/floors_claytonsouth.php

http://www.embelton.com/

 

 

 

Wallgarden

The Wallgarden is a predominant feature of our Cubby House, and we feel that your product is greatly suited to our design.  The aim is definitely to use mature planting to present the Wallgarden at it’s best, and we will be using edible plants, flowers, berries etc for that extra dimension for exciting the sense of smell.

Value of donation - $544

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perspex

We have selected Perspex for feature windows inside a reading alcove to bring a bit of bright colour as a contrast to the natural textures on the outside.  This will also allow beautiful coloured light to filter into the Cubby during the day, and provide a highlight at night.

www.mitchellgroup.com.au

 

 

 

Lighting

Ropes are a predominant feature of our Cubby House, and we feel that Lightly's product is perfect for our design to bring this feature into the interior in a rather fun way.  We're also keen on the fact that your products are largely Australian made (extra brownie points!).

https://secure.lightly.com.au/

Value of donation $520 - 2 Rope Lights

 

 

 

 

Stools

www.stylecraft.com.au

Donation - 2 Launch stools

 

 

 

Solar Vent

Belle Skylights Solatube RM1200 with thermal switch is ideal for our cubby house as we are trying to create an environment that will be usable throughout the year for older children rather than toddlers, and the fact that it is solar makes installation very straightforward.

www.belleskylights.com.au

 

 

Rope

 

www.allropes.com.au

Value of donation - $140

 

 

Curtain fabric

Sustainable living fabrics donated fabric for a curtain which will be heavy enough to provide some insulation in winter, as well as privacy for teens and could be used as a stage curtain for younger children putting on a ‘show’

 

 

Desk Hinge

The HEBGO hinge system has been donated by Hafele for use on the fold down desk, to make the small interior of the Cubby House a more flexible space for study and play.

http://www.hafele.com

Value of donation - Trade Cost $65.40 + GST per pair

 

 

Instulation