SPECIALIST SUB-CONSULTANT · SINGLE SOURCE · UAE & GCC
The kids' space
is always the
after thought.
Make it your
easiest scope.
You're designing the whole building. The kids' club, the playground, the podium play deck — small lines on your drawing, until they turn out to be the most regulated spaces in the project. We're the specialist who takes that scope off your desk, indoors and out: safety-led design, every asset you need, manufactured, installed and certified. You keep the client. We keep you protected.
Free in-studio workshop — we review your live project work
Erth Abu Dhabi
Hotel kids club
Nord Anglia Abu Dhabi
Indoor play hall
We're the knowledge library for designers doing kids' projects — because we design them, make them, install them and certify them.
Specialists since 2011
EN 1176 · EIAC · TÜV
3,000+ product range
SCHOOL LIBRARY
SENSORY ROOM
BESPOKE · MADE BY US
INDOOR PLAY
SCHOOL RECEPTION
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HOW WE FIT IN
Not anothersupplier to chase.
A specialist on your team.
You don't need one more vendor sending you a PDF. You need the kids' scope to stop being a risk — resolved by people who design it, manufacture it, install it and put their name on the certificate. You keep the client and the wider design. We take the part that bites.
WITHOUT A SPECIALIST "It's only one
"It's only one
small room."
- 7–10 calls just to find one responsive flooring supplier — then repeat for play, shading and soft play
- Each supplier answers only for their own package; nobody coordinates the drawing
- Safety distances, fall heights and shading clearances get resolved on site, not on paper
- A beautiful render turns out unsafe, age-inappropriate or triple the budget
- A height threshold you didn't know about triggers a months-long design review
- You absorb the risk, the RFIs and the redesign — for the smallest room on the job
WITH MOON KIDS "One source.
"One source.
One drawing."
- One coordinated package — flooring, play, shading, soft play, furniture, finishes
- CAD blocks, 3D models, spec sheets, schedules & BOQs delivered to your standards
- Safety-led review at concept — before a threshold costs you months
- Cost-realistic detailing — we tell you when a curve triples the price, and how to fake it
- Manufactured in our own factory, installed, inspected and certified to EN 1176
- We answer your RFIs. Your client sees one seamless design.
What specifying one specialist actually removes from your week.
1 not 10
supplier to brief — instead of chasing flooring, play, shading, soft play & certification separately.
3,000+
products to specify from — and if it's not in range, we make it or procure it.
2,000+
interior projects designed and overseen by our founder since 2014.
6 months
the design review a single height threshold can trigger — caught at concept, not at inspection.
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WHAT LANDS IN YOUR INBOX
Everything yourpackage needs.
We work the way design practices work — concept, schematic, design development, IFC. Tap any deliverable to see exactly what you get, and how fast.
CAD Blocks
3D Models
Spec Sheets
Schedules & BOQ
Samples & Boards
Design Review
RFI Support
Design Subcontract
Cost Advice
Make & Procure
Install
Certification
More +
CAD blocks & drawings
2D CAD blocks for every item you specify — plan, elevation and section — drawn to real manufactured dimensions, not marketing sizes, with safety zones and clearances indicated so your layouts are compliant from the first draft. Supplied in your preferred format and layer convention.
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THE TRAPS WE CATCH
Six detailsthat quietly wreck a scheme.
None of these are your fault — they're specialist knowledge from a corner of the industry you don't live in. We do live in it. Here's what we look for the moment we open your drawing.
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The two-metre threshold
A climbing feature under the threshold may need only a short third-party inspection. Go over it — commonly around two metres — and you can trigger a full design review that runs for months. That decision is made in your drawing, long before anyone checks it. We flag the threshold at concept stage
02
Surfacing isn't flooring
Safety surfacing must be specified against the critical fall height of the highest accessible platform — not chosen for colour. Specified separately by a flooring contractor, it comes in too thin, fails inspection, and gets replaced at your client's cost and your programme's expense. We specify equipment and surfacing together
03
Shade that eats the playhouse
Shade fabric sags. Put a playhouse or climbing frame under the sag and the fabric rubs a hole in it, debris collects at the low point, and rain funnels straight onto the equipment until it's ruined. The rule: never place play structures beneath the sagging zone of a canopy. We coordinate shade height, sag & drainage
04
The curve that triples the price
Curved bespoke forms multiply fabrication complexity, waste, labour and install difficulty. The item comes back at several times the expected cost and gets value-engineered out — taking your concept with it. There's almost always a smarter way to hold the line. We show you how to keep the look for less
05
Right space, wrong age
Equipment sized for the wrong age group is unsafe at one end and ignored at the other. Challenge level, heights, furniture scale, motor-skill demand, sensory load and supervision needs all shift by age band — and a single room often has to serve more than one. We zone by age band before layout is fixed
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Beautiful, but it doesn't work
Renders don't reveal blocked sightlines, no storage, punishing acoustics, unreachable maintenance access or zones children simply won't use. Functionality is the thing nobody notices until the space is open and the operator is unhappy. We pressure-test the layout against real use
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THE COORDINATION MATH
Ten suppliers,
or one.
One playground can mean a flooring specialist, a play-equipment supplier, a shading contractor, a soft-play manufacturer, a furniture supplier, an installer and a certification body. Each answers only for their own package. The coordination — and the blame when it clashes — lands on you.
Fragmented suppliers
Moon Kids, one source
7–10 calls to find each responsive supplier
Sourcing
One brief, one contact
Separate info you must merge into one drawing
Drawings
One coordinated package + CAD & 3D
Flooring chosen without the equipment's fall height
Safety
Surfacing specified against fall height
Shade clashes with structures on site
Clashes
Resolved on paper, not on site
Cost surprises after the client has approved
Budget
Buildability & cost advice up front
Nobody owns the certificate
Handover
We inspect, certify & warrant
Your team absorbs every RFI
RFIs
We answer them
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STAGE BY STAGE
We plug into your workflow.
We speak your stages, hit your deadlines and stay in the background. The earlier we're in, the more we can protect — but we can join at any point, including rescuing a children's scope that's already in trouble.
01
Concept — get us in early.
Send the layout or invite us to your studio. We mark up safety, age zoning and thresholds, bring samples and mood boards, and give you concept directions for the children's spaces. Free.
CONCEPT DESIGN
02
Schematic — the assets land.
CAD blocks, 3D models, spec and data sheets, finish ranges — accurate to what we actually manufacture, so your model and renders match reality.
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
03
Detail — priced & scheduled.
Finishes, furniture and play-equipment schedules, fit-out BOQ, and honest buildability advice on every bespoke detail before the client sees a number.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
04
IFC — we answer the RFIs.
Issue-for-construction support, technical answers to the contractor, and compliance documentation prepared for the inspection route your design triggers.
ISSUE FOR CONSTRUCTION
05
Make & install.
Manufactured in our factory or procured globally, delivered, offloaded and installed by our own teams — factory-direct, so your client gets the price without the middleman.
MANUFACTURE → SITE
06
Test, certify, warrant.
Safety testing, third-party inspection, EN 1176 / EIAC compliance, certificates and warranties — the closeout paperwork handed to you complete.
CERTIFIED HANDOVER
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WHATEVER YOU'RE DESIGNING
Every sector.Every kids' space in it.
Whatever your practice is working on, we've delivered the children's scope inside it — and that cross-sector view is exactly why we can bring a hospitality idea into a school, or a school's functionality into a residential tower.
Education
Nurseries, daycare, schools, special needs centres, after-school clubs, libraries — classrooms to labs, art and DT rooms, auditoriums.
Hospitality
Hotel kids' clubs, teen and tween clubs, games rooms, family bedrooms, restaurant play areas, beach and pool family zones.
Commercial leisure
Family entertainment centres, indoor play, soft play centres, kids gyms, adventure play, games areas and outdoor leisure.
Healthcare
Paediatric wards, hospital playgrounds, children's waiting areas, sensory rooms and medical special-needs environments.
Residential
Tower playrooms, podium and community playgrounds, family amenity floors, teen lounges and games rooms.
Public & cultural
Bookstores, libraries, reading corners, museum and children's activity areas — engagement spaces that take real wear.
AND EVERY SPACE WITHIN THEM
- RECEPTION AREAS
- CORRIDORS & CIRCULATION
- INDOOR PLAY AREAS
- OUTDOOR PLAYGROUNDS
- SOFT PLAY & TODDLER ZONES
- CLIMBING & ACTIVE PLAY
- SENSORY ROOMS
- GAMES ROOMS
- TEEN & TWEEN LOUNGES
- CINEMA ROOMS
- LIBRARIES & READING CORNERS
- CLASSROOMS & NURSERIES
- LABORATORIES
- ART & DT ROOMS
- LECTURE ROOMS & AUDITORIUMS
- TOILETS & BATHROOMS
- OFFICES & ADMIN
- FAMILY BEDROOMS
- RESTAURANT PLAY AREAS
- PARTY & EVENT ROOMS
- STAFF & BREAKOUT ROOMS
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WHOEVER HOLDS THE SCOPE
We supportevery seat in the practice.
Design responsibility splits differently in every firm, so we slot in wherever the kids' scope sits. FF&E and finishes designers get accurate specs, samples and schedules; layout and spatial designers get compliant blocks and safety zoning; architects get a specialist who resolves the regulated detail; project managers get one accountable package; and principals get a scope that stops eating fee and creating risk.
- FF&EAccurate specs & samples
- LayoutsCompliant CAD blocks
- ArchitectsRegulated detail solved
- PMsOne accountable package
- PrincipalsScope stops eating fee
- English & Arabic teams
- LocalWe come to your studio
- You keep the client relationship
- We never approach your client direct
- White-label & NDAOn request
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SPECIFIED, MADE, INSTALLED
Your drawing.Our delivery.
Renders that got built as drawn — because the people who designed them also made them.
FIRST PATH NURSERY INTERIORS
ORANGE SEEDS NURSERY INTERIORS
AL SALAM SCHOOL LIBRARY
NLCS DUBAI PLAYGROUND
EDEN HOUSE RESIDENTIAL PLAYROOM
VIP SCHOOL PLAYGROUND
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THE SPECIALIST BEHIND YOUR SPECIFICATION
2011
Designing kids' spaces since
30K sqft
Own factory · Abu Dhabi
3,000+
Products to specify from
10,000+
Spaces transformed
EN 1176/1177
EIAC · TÜV · third-party certified
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PROJECTS & PRACTICES
Already behindschemes you'd recognise.
We've delivered the children's scope alongside designers, architects and consultants on hospitality, education, leisure and residential projects across the UAE.
Delivered alongside international design practices, developers and operators across hospitality, education, leisure, healthcare & residential.
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SPECIFIED BY PRACTICES, DEVELOPERS & OPERATORS
The teams whostopped chasing suppliers.
Nord Anglia
GEMS
West Yas Academy
Yas American Academy
Dubai Heights Academy
Fairgreen
DESS
Sharjah English School
BC Academy
Star International School
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IN THEIR WORDS
What design teams
say afterwards.
Designers, architects and consultants who handed us the children's scope — and got the fee, the programme and the compliance back.
★★★★★
“They marked up our concept in two days and caught a fall-height problem that would have failed inspection. CAD blocks, 3D, schedules — all of it arrived correct first time. The kids' club stopped being the scope we dreaded.”
Design Team
★★★★★
“We were about to detail a climbing feature that would have triggered a full design review. They flagged the threshold at concept stage and offered an alternative that kept the intent. That single conversation saved months.”
Design Team
★★★★★
“One contact instead of nine. They coordinated flooring, play, shading and soft play into one package, answered the contractor's RFIs directly and handed over the certificates. Our client never saw a seam.”
Design Team
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FROM THE FOUNDER
You do whatyou're great at.
We'll do ours.
FOUNDER · MOON KIDS
Philip Moon
Founder & Head of Design · 2,000+ interior projects since 2014
Designers are brilliant at what they do. But children's spaces carry rules most practices never need to learn — fall heights, safety zones, age bands, inspection thresholds, what a shape actually costs to make. I've spent over a decade in that detail. My job isn't to replace your design; it's to make sure it can be built, certified and loved.
Why we started offering the workshop
“I kept being called in after the drawings were signed off — a climbing wall over the threshold, surfacing at the wrong thickness, a bespoke curve nobody could afford to make. Every single time it was fixable at concept stage and expensive afterwards. So now I'd rather come to your studio for an afternoon, look at what you're working on, and stop it happening. It costs you nothing, and it saves us both a painful conversation later.”
FREE DOWNLOAD · NO COST, NO MEETING
The Kids' Space Design Checklist
The specialist checklist we run over every children's-space drawing: age bands and zoning, critical fall height against surfacing, safety zones and clearances, climbing thresholds and inspection routes, shade coordination, supervision sightlines, storage, acoustics, durability, certification and handover documents. Run it before your next issue.
PDF coming soon — request a copy and we'll send it when ready.
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THE OFFER
A workshop in your studio.
Philip Moon comes to your office and runs a private session for your team — built around your live project work, not a generic slide deck. He reviews real layouts and specifications, shows you what he'd change and why, and leaves your team able to spot the traps themselves. Normally an AED 7,500 consulting engagement — complimentary, and limited to a few studios each month.
Private Kids'-Space Design Workshop
AED 7,500 FREE
- Led by Philip Moon in person — founder and head of design, at your studio with your team.
- A live review of your actual work — bring current layouts and specs; he marks them up and shows you how to improve them.
- The traps, explained properly — fall heights, surfacing, safety zones, age banding, climbing thresholds, shade coordination.
- Cost & buildability masterclass — what detailing really costs, and how to keep the design intent for less.
- A specification pack for the practice — CAD blocks, 3D models, spec sheets, samples and the checklist.
Half-day workshop with the founderAED 4,000
Live design review & markup of your projectAED 2,500
Specification pack, samples & checklistAED 1,000
Total valueAED 7,500
Your investment
FREE · normally AED 7,500
Our promise to your team: you'll leave the session with at least 3 specific, actionable improvements to a live project — safety, cost or functionality. If we don't deliver that, tell us and we'll send the marked-up review and the specification pack anyway. No obligation to specify us, ever.
CPD-style session — practical, technical, no sales pitch
Our working-speed promise: once we're on your project, concept markups back within 3 working days and RFI responses within 48 hours — because your deadlines are the deadline.
Reply within 1 working day
Only 4 studio sessions / month — Philip leads every one personally
We come to your office
Your client stays yours — white-label & NDA on request
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QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
What practices
ask us first.
In short
Moon Kids is a specialist children's-space partner for interior designers, architects and consultants across the UAE and GCC. It works as a sub-consultant and single-source supplier for the kids' scope inside larger projects — providing safety-led design review, CAD blocks, 3D models, specification sheets, finishes, furniture and play-equipment schedules, fit-out BOQs, RFI support, in-house manufacturing in a 30,000 sqft Abu Dhabi factory, global procurement, installation, third-party inspection and certification to EN 1176 and EN 1177. Established 2011, 3,000+ product range. Designers keep the client and the wider design; Moon Kids takes the regulated children's detail.
No. We work as a specialist sub-consultant and single-source supplier for the children's scope inside your project. You keep the client relationship and the wider design; we take the kids' spaces — the technical, regulated, easy-to-get-wrong part — off your desk. You do what you're best at; we do what we're best at.
CAD blocks, 3D models, specification and data sheets , safety and certification documentation, material samples and mood boards, finishes schedules, furniture schedules, play-equipment schedules and fit-out BOQs. We answer RFIs and support concept, schematic, design-development and IFC stages — and if the children's design scope is subcontracted to us, we produce the whole schedule and specification package for you.
Critical fall height is the maximum height a child could fall from equipment while the surfacing beneath still provides acceptable impact protection. Safety surfacing is not decorative flooring — its type and thickness must be specified against the highest accessible platform. Specified separately by a flooring contractor, it commonly comes in too thin, fails inspection and gets replaced at cost and delay.
Height thresholds change the compliance route entirely. A lower climbing feature may need only a short third-party inspection ; go over the threshold — commonly around two metres — and you can trigger a full design review that runs for months . That decision is made in your drawing, which is why a specialist review at concept stage protects your programme.
Curves multiply fabrication complexity, material waste, labour and installation difficulty — a heavily curved item can cost several times a simpler equivalent, then get value-engineered out, taking your concept with it. Because we design and manufacture, we can often hold the look for far less: creating the illusion of a curve through how material is cut, using modular components, or simplifying internal structure.
EN 1176 (playground equipment) and EN 1177 (impact-attenuating surfacing), ASTM standards where applicable to the jurisdiction, EIAC accreditation for amusement and entertainment facilities in the UAE, and TÜV-style product safety testing. We already hold many certificates, arrange third-party inspections and hand over certification and warranty documentation.
Yes — that's the whole point of one source. Separate suppliers each answer only for their own package, which is how safety distances end up wrong, shade fabric sags onto a climbing frame and wears a hole in it , debris and rainwater collect at the sag and pour onto the equipment below, and surfacing lands at the wrong thickness. We coordinate the entire children's package into one drawing and one accountable contract.
Over 3,000 products in range. If it's not in range we manufacture it in our own 30,000 sqft Abu Dhabi factory to your drawings and the project brand; if we can't make it, we procure it through our global supply chain. You specify one supplier for the whole scope — factory-direct, with no middleman margin on your client's budget.
Initial consultation, a site visit and specification support are complimentary , and design fees for drawings and proposals are deliberately low because we're also the manufacturer and installer. Working factory-direct removes middleman margin, which helps you guarantee competitive pricing to your client.
Yes — we're regularly called in mid-project or after an inspection issue. We'll assess what's there, tell you honestly what has to change and what can be saved, and re-detail the children's scope so it passes. Earlier is cheaper, but it's rarely too late.
No. When a practice brings us in, the client relationship is yours and we don't approach them independently. We're happy to work white-label under your practice's name, sign an NDA, and attend client meetings only when you invite us. Our repeat work comes from design teams trusting us — which is worth far more to us than one project.
When we design, manufacture, install and certify the children's scope, we stand behind that scope — with third-party inspection, EN 1176 / EN 1177 compliance documentation, product certification and warranties issued in our name. That is the practical difference between specifying a coordinated specialist package and specifying assorted products you then have to defend yourself.
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THE DREAM TEAM
Let's make the kids' space theeasy bit.
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Free studio workshop
01 :
CAD · 3D · specs · schedules
02 :
Made, installed & certified
03 :
EN 1176 · specialists since 2011