This fantastical house boasts fun surprises for kids and adults alike: a floating pirate ship bedroom, a hidden slide to the basement, a climbing wall, and video golf room.
I was sure Kuhl must have employed some sort of Pirates of Penzance set-designing guru, but he designed and built the entire thing himself. "I've never lost my inner child ... I just really got into that place and said, 'Let's just have fun' when I dreamt this up," he says. "I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. I'll never let that happen; I'm still a kid at heart."
When my son was obsessed with pirates, he got a Playmobil pirate island. The little boy whose room this is got a ship embedded in the wall and his own gangplank. Not bad.