Maker Faire Bay Area 2025

The Spoon House 2.2

Home: California, United States of America

The Spoon House 2.2 is an update and expansion of last year's installation. This year's Spoon House is still a 20'x10', 2-room structure that utilizes approximately 4500 spoons arranged in free-hanging strands of spoons connected with split rings to form walls and roof, and hundreds more additional spoons that decorate the many pieces of "spooniture" and other decor. A window of clear space is framed by metal pipe in one wall with spoon curtains around it, and doorways of clear space allow visitors to walk through the house. Two "spoondeliers" hang from the ceiling of the structure, and spoon-decorated furniture inside both rooms welcomes visitors to sit, rest, contemplate and converse. New items in this year's expansion include spoon garden landscaping, an interactive spoon mailbox outside the house, a spoon bookshelf with topical reading material, and several "spoonstruments" to play on/with inside the house. The Spoon House is intended to give visitors a place to sit and contemplate Spoon Theory* and what it might feel like to be in an environment where you have all the spoons you could ever possibly need. This particular piece has been slowly evolving over the years with new things added each time it is installed. Maybe someday it will be a Spoon Mansion! *Spoon Theory, created by Christine Miserandino, is a metaphor that has been used by the disability community and others to represent ideas about energy: having it, running out of it, conserving it, spending or rationing it, and so on. (A “ spoon” in this metaphor just refers to a unit of energy.)