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Ashley George commissioned Bowen-Poole to design a playroom in their new house with monkey bars, swings, foam pits, a climbing wall, and a slide. Now the children run into the new playroom each day after school. Ashley George’s 5 years old loves challlenging herself on the monkey bars. “She is so proud of herself” said George.

The idea of Smart Playrooms came to me in the middle of the night, when I was brainstorming other ways of using all of my educational and teaching experience outside of the traditional classroom. I am the innovator of the term “Educational Design” and really started the movement of designing playrooms from an educator’s viewpoint and including challenging physical play kid gyms inside, like monkey...

“Karri Bowen-Poole, a professional playroom designer who founder her business, Smart Playrooms, in 2012, started off mostly as an organizer who sorted and labeled toys, but in the past few years, she’s been working with clients who ask her to create permanent, indoor playgrounds for their kids, with outrageous features such as monkey bars , trpez...