This week we're updating our Pinterest boards that celebrate the projects that don't take themselves too seriously. Browse inflatables and bouncy-castle installations, hammocks and swings and slides used as alternatives to staircases. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest › More
Residents of this getaway in Mexico, designed by architects Pérez Palacios and Alfonso de la Concha Rojas, can spend weekends lazing in a hammock suspended above a secluded swimming pool. More
Masonry walls partition a patio and create various swimming areas at this renovated Mexican residence by Punto Arquitectónico. More
A hammock suspended in midair and tables with integrated storage systems are some of the space-saving details that Colombo and Serboli Architecture have added inside this series of low-budget community co-working spaces in Barcelona. More
A natural finish made from tree sap covers this compact summer house on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, which has plenty of hammocks for relaxing in the shade. More
This week's roundup from Pinterest focuses on playful ways to relax at home, featuring a Mexican guesthouse with hammocks instead of beds and a Taiwan home with a swing in the family kitchen. More
Architects are increasingly using nets to make the most out of spare space in houses, creating giant hammocks that children can use for work, rest or play. Here are six of the best examples (+ slideshow). More
A mezzanine hammock, an adaptable seating cube on wheels, and a combined staircase and bookshelf have been added to this play and study space for a brother and sister, designed by Russian studio Ruetemple (+ slideshow). More
Layers of springy nets stretched across an atrium at the centre of this beach house in Thailand by Bangkok studio Onion create a vertical playground that can be used to travel from the top floor to the bottom (+ slideshow). More
This Berlin townhouse by architecture office XTH-Berlin features doors that open like drawbridges, sloping floors that function as slides and nets that cover holes in the floors (+ slideshow). More
Travellers visting the Mexican town of Tepoztlan can spend a few nights, months or even years at this three-armed concrete guesthouse by architects Cadaval & Sola-Morales (+ slideshow). More
A suspended net provides a hammock over the staircase of this apartment in Porto by architects OODA. More
Japanese architects Jo Nagasaka and Schemata Architecture Office have designed a house contained in a three metre cube. More
