About Us

Hey there!

We're Renee & Giorgia. Possum Play Couch creators, best friends,
and imaginative play fanatics

Our Story

We grew up destroying our childhood sofas

We bet you did too, right? Pulling the cushions off, draping sheets to turn day into night, dragging all our soft toys in to be characters of our latest charade. When we started having lots of special kids in our own lives, we wanted them use the same level of imagination (and burn the same levels of energy) in their loungeroom play, without sacrificing the adult sofa.

As a new mum, Renee was looking for fun ways to encourage imaginative, screen-free play for her son, Finn, and as a godmother and aunt, Giorgia was constantly on the lookout for the ultimate kids gift.

So we decided to create furniture purpose-built for fun

We let our imaginations run wild and dreamt up the sofa of our childhood dreams... easily movable cushions, light enough to hoist overhead, sturdy enough to turn into a slide, big enough to share with multiple siblings. The full bells and whistles.

 

... and The Possum play sofa was born!

We designed the ultimate modular play sofa to live in lounge rooms, bedrooms, and playrooms and grow with your family. With infinite configurations, The Possum is flexible enough to be a jungle raft, rocket ship, or reading nook... whatever your kids dream up!

We can't wait to see what adventures the Possum Play Couch takes your family on!

What else we get up to

When we're not immersed in foam specs, shipping policies, or Instagram Stories, you can find us taking swims in the ocean (a Monday afternoon ritual), drinking hot cups of tea (no matter the temperature outside), and hosting dinner parties for family and friends from our homes.

We know it is a dream to build a business and life alongside your best friend, and we're appreciative of every moment doing it!

There's a few things we obsess over...

Designing to last

  • The Possum Play Couch is made to grow with your kids, taking the place of dozens of toys that clutter your house and that your kids are sick of within a week. Designed for years of everyday play!
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Inspiring imaginative play

  • The Possum is all about sparking the big imagination that lives inside every little kid. We love hearing about the builds, games and creations that your family has dream up
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Being squeal worthy

  • For everything we do at Possum Play we challenge ourselves to find ways to spark joy for you. From the obviously fun stuff (like launching new products and colours), to the less-fun stuff (like shipping policies) we're always asking ourselves what can we do to bring some happiness and play into your day.
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Great purchase

Bought as a joint present for our toddler and very mobile baby. Lots of options for play for both ages, lovely colour (we got the yellow) and lovely feel to the fabric. Large enough to use as a sleepover bed/make various constructions with but stacks up quite nicely to fit into a corner in a bedroom as a seat

Great product, I have been looking for something like this and ordered similar things in the past for a huge price difference, the quality is better than any of my past purchases and it’s aesthetics blends perfectly into the household.

Great product, kids love it!

Loving our play couch, kids have played with it non-stop! Inflated very quickly from the box it came in and was good to go pretty much straightaway. Would highly recommend! The sage colour covers are quite a light colour and do look to mark quite easily, but I guess to be expected with any such product under heavy use with kids.

Hi Hattie, thank you for your review. We're thrilled to hear your kids love their Possum already!! We designed The Possum so that caring for your play couch is a breeze. For small spills and stains - anything from crayons to carrots, spot clean with a damp, clean cloth and warm water or a baby wipe. For a full-clean, our microsuede covers can be popped in the wash! Make sure your machine is on cold wash with colour-safe detergent and a gentle cycle, and then line dry. xx

Its amazing!

It has beautiful beige colour, its comfy and beautiful as well 🤍

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The Possum Play Couch is great fun. My daughter loves it.

Fun and practical

Not sure who loves this more, the kids or the adults. Endless play ideas and also super comfy to chill on. Love it!

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The grandchildren absolutely ♥️ it🥰

Excellent

My boy loves climbing all over this and turning it into various different forts/dens/tents/etc. Absolutely worth every penny!

The BEST thing we have bought!

This is hands down the best thing we have bought. It is so well made and super versatile. We bought it with the intention that it would most likely just be used by my 11month old but it has come in useful so many times for my daughter, us and guests . We’ve had it for about a month and it’s been used as a sofa, a bed, a fort, a ball pit plus a million other things, the options are endless. My little one hasn’t mastered walking yet but can now climb like a pro. I am also so impressed by how easy it is to clean. There is not one thing about this that we don’t love!

Absolutely brilliant

My kids love this! One of our best purchases ever. Hours of fun had in just the first few days. Looks like a lovely sofa too, really impressed with the quality.

Fantastic Addition

Our daughter absolutely LOVES her new crash pad from jumping and landing on it to driving her cars over it to relaxing listening to music or reading a book the BEST addition to her Possum Play Couch

Highly recommend for 1 and 3 year old

We just got this for our two boys aged 3 and 1 for their bedroom, they haven’t stopped playing with it! It’s been a pirate ship, car/bus/taxi, swimming pool, tent, house, obstacle course you name it. It also makes a very comfy mattress on the floor for sleeping. Highly recommend.

Fun for all!

Whole family is enjoying the play couch. Enjoying building different models, jumping, dancing, relaxing. Love it!

Possum play set

Excellent product. Best present my son has ever received. Can’t wait to buy more parts

Great gift from her aunties!

Our daughter loves her play sofa. There’s endless possibilities and we can see it being a favourite gift for years to come!

The best purchase

High quality and hours of fun!

Fantastic playful sofa for our toddler's room

We love our possum play couch! So versatile and fit for story time, play time and sleep over. We love the design too. We picked the peanut colour and it is lovely.

Love it!

The play couch is amazing quality and my 1 year loves it. I can see her playing with it for years to come. And we’ve already used it as an overnight bed for a sleepover.
Would 100% recommend.

Grand children are over the moon

My family love the play couch and the moon arch set makes it even better! Thanks

Play sofa

Our children (2yo and 7yo) love this!. It’s not very often that it looks like a sofa shape! My only small complaint is that it was pale pink rather than the lilac colour I had ordered.