While kitting out the kid's room with coveted vintage wares might seem extravagant, many industry insiders agree that the current boom in the market was born out of the recession.
"I think the kid's room is a great opportunity to do things you wouldn't normally do in the rest of the house because you don't need to be safe, " says Anna Hackathorn, a Los Angeles-based interior designer.
Eisner, who grew up in Manhattan, the child of left-leaning parents who hosted fundraisers for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (one of his earliest memories is of Paul Robeson singing) was never the smartest kid in the room, but he always wanted to get As and spent a lot of time studying how the smart kids learned.
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Don't let Tom Bodett kid you: a room at the 'lowest price of any national chain' is not a good thing if you're checking into a voodoo hellhole where there's a good risk of something bad happening to you.
The experience is meant to replicate the feeling of being a kid and sitting in your room with a bunch of blocks, dolls and toys and building a world in your imagination.
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Her fingers flew so fast on the controller that she left both Bach and the audience completely lost, struck by how much more technologically adept a kid could be than a conference room full of techies.
Others cite Boiler Room, about a college-age kid who gets involved in a crooked brokerage on Long Island and finds himself in an ethical pickle.
No Xbox 360 or trip to Disney World for this kid, who has to clean up his own room but gets no allowance from his parents.
He started sweeping out the shaping room of a surf shack as a kid and worked his way through the industry, eventually becoming an on-air announcer for the Winter X Games from 1996 through 2005.
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And they were in a room and there was a picture of me -- and this young couple had this cute kid, about four years old, named Sammy.
In fact, when I was a kid, I used to write these songs and I used to sneak into my mom and dad's room.
The problem started that first day of high school when I was transformed from a skinny kid who nonetheless enjoyed all kinds of sports into a punching bag for 250 pound football players assured that the locker room was a no-penalty zone.
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