About Little Spaces

Home,
through their eyes.

Homes are designed around the way adults live: kitchens for cooking, offices for working, living rooms for gathering.

Little Spaces designs play environments around the child first, then fits them thoughtfully into the home around them.

A child in a netted playhouse loft above a ladder of green rungs

How children see it

Children experience home differently.

They climb

Build

Pretend

Create

Retreat

Move

And somehow, the spaces meant for them often become rooms filled with toys rather than environments designed around the way they actually play.

Little Spaces was created to change that.

We design custom play environments around the child first — their interests, instincts, abilities and the ways they naturally engage with the world — then thoughtfully integrate those spaces into the home around them.

The result is a space that feels considered enough to belong in your home and playful enough to belong entirely to them.

Our point of view

The best play spaces leave room for possibility.

That's why we design through a philosophy we call Layered Play — bringing movement, imagination, creativity and calm together rather than designing around a single activity.

Every Little Space is intentional, but never prescriptive. Beautiful, but never at the expense of play. Designed for the child in front of us, with room for who they're becoming.

Child first. Equipment second. Always.

A child on a painted mountain climbing wall — A climbing wall can be a place to move today — and part of an imaginary world tomorrow.

A toddler choosing a book from wall ledges beside a cushioned nook under a blue loft — A platform can become a reading hideaway, a stage, a fort — or a place to simply be alone.

Sphurti, founder of Little Spaces, smiling

Meet the founder

Hi, I'm Sphurti.

I'm a designer, a mom of two very active boys, and the founder of Little Spaces.

Before Little Spaces, I spent more than a decade designing products. That work taught me to start with people: to observe how they actually behave, understand what they need, and design around real life rather than assumptions.

Then I had children.

I watched my boys turn furniture into climbing structures, cushions into crash pads and the smallest corners of our home into entire worlds. And I started looking at children's spaces through the same design lens I'd spent years applying to products.

What if we stopped asking children to adapt to their spaces — and started designing spaces around them?

Sphurti laughing as her two young sons hug and kiss her

Today

The goal isn't a prettier playroom. It's a better place to be a kid.

Today, I bring together my background in design, what I've learned about child development and play, and the very practical perspective of raising two energetic kids to create spaces that work differently.

Spaces where children can move, imagine, create, retreat and grow. Spaces that feel at home in your home. Spaces that become part of everyday childhood rather than something children outgrow in a year.

Sphurti SaraphFounder, Little Spaces