Where do you keep all the big toys?

kertybird · October 2008

I have one toy box downstairs, and everything else is kept in the playroom or in DD's room. Now that we are having #2 we are losing the playroom. There is so much stuff that I would love to get for DD (play kitchen, art easel, etc..) but i have no idea where to put it all.

Any ideas?

Shelly203 · October 2008

We just moved into a bigger house and now have a playroom-thankfully!! But before we moved, we had the same problem. We made our living room into a living room/playroom. We positioned our couch so that it kind of blocked off one section of the room and behind that we had a play area. It didn't completely hide the toys, but it kept them seperate from the rest of the room, and made clean up a lot easier. Sorry if that doesn't make sense...it's a little hard to explain in writing.

Totally off topic...I just saw where you live...we spent our wedding night and night after at the Temecula Creek Inn! And we live in Hemet. Small world!

Temp159135562506975 · October 2008

we have a tiny house- so most of the toys are in 1/2 of the living room... which is DS's play area. The play kitchen is IN our kitchen

we store the big stuff in the attic/basement and on the banisters of the garage (we layed big doors and wood up there to use the space as storage)

HarrietNJMommy · October 2008

I have no idea. We have a playroom.?

Maybe another toybox? Or a bookshelf unit??

Alexandra*sMom · October 2008

We have the girls rooms, plus a playroom. I keep 2 book boxes in the LR and one toybox (upstairs). DD1 just got a huge doll house for her B-day and it is in her room.

Temp970088312507122 · October 2008

We have a playroom too, but when we have #2, we'll probably fix up the basement and make a playroom down there.

molldoll71 · October 2008

We have a small place too - right now our living room and dining room are also playrooms. It's not the most fashionable look but it works for us.

neverblushed · October 2008

My kids have a playroom, but they are older and have accumulated more big toys over the years than a house with just a toddler and a baby. The toy storage is a HUGE problem.

Here are all the places in my house where we keep toys:

DS's room: big bookshelf for favorite medium-sized toys, toybox for small favorites, small bookshelf for actual books

DD's room: only a few stuffed animals and really special toys like her DS, etc. Her bookshelf is in playroom.

Playroom: play kitchen, easel, art bins, all FP sets, games, bin of stuffed animals, sit'n'spin, dress up boxes, zillions of misc other toys on shelving unit.

Living Room: toy box with small stuff plus one big toy that I rotate around. Usually the train table, the play kitchen, or the PlanCity stuff.

Garage: anything that is even remotely an outside toy gets thrown out here!

Basement: drum set, balls

Attic: toys that have been outgrown or are ready for donation.

UGH! Now that I've put it all down systematically like that it's terrible! We have way too many toys!

Halo79RN · October 2008

we have a playroom now... we ordered the big kitchen set b/c we knew we were going to be moving into a house with a playroom. Had we not known that, I would have gone with a smaller kitchen and put it in dd's room. . In our old house, we had the kitchen in the hallway (since it was temp), we had toy boxes in dd's room and in the living room (decorative boxes that could be shoved under the coffeetable and endtable).. the big leap tables were stored in dd's room when company came, but most of the time it was out in our living room. It's hard when you have a small house. I would recommend rotating toys so that your family room doesn't get too overcrowded with toys. (store them in the attic or garage). good luck

Halo79RN · October 2008

I like the play kitchen in the real kitchen idea... we thought of that too, but we didn't have the space at the time. But dd loves to help cook. If you have the space for a smallish kitchen set, then it may be a great option for you!

ElizabethD · October 2008

the layout of your house is also really important. for people where the bedrooms are ALL upstairs and away from the main house, well, then i can see few kids room housing any toys because kids are never up there alone.

we "live" in a one story house. the tv/office/computers are downstairs but it's never where the kids are.

So for us, we AVOID big toys as much as humanly possible. Fortunately our moms are super cool with it. We just don't need all the crap you can buy! My first born was never a huge toy kid anyway and now my dd's room is just a sliding door off the kitchen so my hope is she can play in her room while i'm in the kitchen (that sorta happens now with her and ds.)

I'm in flux for sure as ds gets older, approaching 4... and dd is 1.5 and starting to be able to enjoy her own toys.

jlw2505 · October 2008

I hate having all the toys around but you jsut can't avoid it. I have made my lower level family room into the play room so the majority of the stuff is down there. The girls can't go down there themselves yet so we do still have toys and stuff on the main floor living/dining room area. I have the baby's jumperoo there although that will get put away within a month I am guess. I have the FP house thing in there and the girls are getting a kitchen from the ILS for Hanukkah and that will start up there but we are going to move that downstairs in the spring since the thing just takes up so much room. The only real furniture in this room right now is my dining room table and china cabinet so there is a lot of room. Once we switch the babies room to her big girl room next fall, the glider is either going in here or in our upper TV room so we will be moving stuff around the whole house. I can't wait until the girls are old enough to go downstairs themselves so I can get my house back - or at least have less toys on the main floor. They both have some small things in their rooms like books and stuffed animals.

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