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Spider-Man posters, wood fires, food rations and car-shaped beds – what children’s bedrooms look like around the world

www.theguardian.com Spider-Man posters, wood fires, food rations and car-shaped beds – what children’s bedrooms look like around the world

From a trailer in Kentucky to a tipi in Mongolia to an off-grid farmhouse in Wales, the places where children sleep offer a fascinating glimpse into their wildly divergent lives

James Mollison's second volume of Where Children Sleep has been published. This article features edited extracts from it.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Everett lives in Livonia, Michigan, US, with his parents, who are collectors of an eclectic mix of artefacts, including antiques, art, bourbon and watches.
Maria is a dedicated climate activist and belongs to the organisation Fridays for Future, a youth-led movement formed after Greta Thunberg’s protest outside the Swedish parliament.
Food is rationed and they have no money, so her older brother earns a few Jordanian dinar by ferrying things around the camp in his wheelbarrow.
A high wall topped with barbed wire surrounds the property, and in the living room there is a pond, filled with goldfish, under a glass floor that people can walk over.
They are self-sufficient, only purchasing oil, sugar and occasionally biscuits from the shop; they keep four pigs, two rabbits, four chickens, a goat and a horse to provide food for the family.
His mother died a year ago in a car accident, while making deliveries for her elderly father, a rice farmer.
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Interesting to see these differences, and wow those are some beautiful fabrics and embroidery in some of those houses!