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We Tried the Nugget Couch and the Chunk Ottoman. The Hype is Worth It.
Mar 12, 2025
Jumping on the sofa is something every kid wants to do, but few parents want their family couch to be a playground. Enter the Nugget, a play couch that can be rearranged and repurposed as four giant foam blocks. It's meant to be a comfortable place to sit, a play spot that kids can jump on and building blocks for forts and more. The brand describes it as "part-furniture and part-toy" and we agree. We gave it one of our most recent Parenting Awards.
Though it is a little pricey and fairly large (the footprint is about 5.5 x 3 feet), our Good Housekeeping Institute parenting pros feel the Nugget is a great value for its high quality and the amount of playtime a family with young kids can get out of it. Over the past three years, two of our top Lab pros plus two consumer families have tested the Nugget in their homes, and an additional family tried it in 2025 with the brand's new Chunk ottoman.
The Nugget Play Couch
Pros
Comfortable kid-size sofa
Foam pieces double as play blocks
Washable fabric covers zip off
Lightweight and easy to move around
Cons
What is the Nugget Couch?
It arrives compressed in a box.
Essentially it's four foam pieces that arrive compressed in a box. The Nugget usually ships within three days of you ordering it. You'll want to unpack the parts and let them expand to their full shape as soon as possible. It might take several weeks for them to reach their full, final size, but a tester told us, "within 30 minutes of taking it out of the box, the kids were playing and everything was in good shape."
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