Playroom

morsey2011 · March 2013

I had a dream last night where I converted our formal dining room to a playroom for DD. Right now, her toys are scattered through the house. We have an office area between the kitchen and living room where her tent, riding toys, shopping cart, and tote of puzzles are parked. She has her small play kitchen, dollhouse, and 2 baskets of various toys in an area in our living room. Her bedroom is upstairs, so keeping her toys up there now is just something I don't want to do at this age. My MIL has suggested before turning our dining room into a playroom because it is one of two rooms downstairs that has only one way in and out, and turning our office area into a dining room. If we did that, we would have to find a table that would fit in the area and sell our current one. Anyway, what is your toy situation? Do you have a playroom?

stace13 · March 2013

We have a play area that takes up about half of our living room. We have a thing from IKEA that helps keep it organized. We also turned an empty room upstairs into a playroom which has been nice because it keeps her contained! It will have to be her bedroom when we have another.

Do you use the formal dining?

morsey2011 · March 2013

I agree about the toys being scattered everywhere regardless, but I think I would like a place to keep everything and it would be nicer when she's older to have a place to play away from everyone. I need to find a smaller table now. Oh, and extra money to buy it with. : /

morsey2011 · March 2013

stace13:
We have a play area that takes up about half of our living room. We have a thing from IKEA that helps keep it organized. We also turned an empty room upstairs into a playroom which has been nice because it keeps her contained! It will have to be her bedroom when we have another. Do you use the formal dining?

well, when I say formal dining room, it's the only dining area. Our office area now is intended to be a breakfast area, but it's large enough to have our desk, shelf and her toys in there. It's not large enough for our current table because it is a rectangular table that seats 6. I would say we could do make the office her playroom but it is the only way to get to our guest room, and also connects the living room and kitchen. Plus it opens onto our back deck.

Fianschneid · March 2013

This might not be terribly helpful, since we're apartment dwellers. We have an open floor plan kitchen/dining room/living room. There's a large nook (like a bay window but bigger) that DD's toys have taken over. We keep a few toys in her room and try to switch the toys up from room to room to keep things interesting.

jwls84 · March 2013

We have an open concept house, B's toys are kept in the front room so although they can be seen they aren't in our kitchen and dining space, but they definitely make their way into our living room space. We are going to take the glider out of his room soon and start transitioning all his toys in there.
I would say if you have the space to make a play room then I would do it!! I wish I had space to do it.

cantalopes24 · March 2013

Our house is really open. We have an eat in kitchen but I also have a formal dining room that is L shaped with a bar area and living room. The kids use the formal dining table to do crafts, their trampoline is in front of my hutch. I can pick all their crap up and stash it but there's no way I'm totally giving up my adult space. I wouldn't give up my only eating space and an office for a playroom if you don't have huge storage issues, they don't need a playroom and their crap will be everywhere anyway.

Scramblersmom · March 2013

Almost all of DS's toys are in our tiny living room. Our house is very compartmentalized and small so there isn't any space for a playroom. I am looking forward to the day when DS is old enough to play upstairs in his room so we can move some of this stuff out of our living room. I say if you have the space to make a play room then do it.

morsey2011 · March 2013

I'm really torn on what to do. I may move our desk either into the guest room or dining room, and make the current office our playroom. There's so much stuff I want to do to our house, but not enough money. Boo. I was just so motivated when I woke up and now I'm like Ehh.

Ms.Jade · March 2013

A playroom is basically my wet dream. We have a 2 bedroom, 1 bath with no additional space. She plays in the living room and we put it all away at the end of the day to create what we call "grown up space". I do like that no toys are visible at the end of the day, but I think I would like to leave things out even better.

morsey2011 · March 2013

crystalbaby:
morsey2011:
I'm really torn on what to do. I may move our desk either into the guest room or dining room, and make the current office our playroom. There's so much stuff I want to do to our house, but not enough money. Boo. I was just so motivated when I woke up and now I'm like Ehh.nbsp;
I hate when those bursts of motivation leave me.

it happens far too often with me. That's one of the reasons I think I would suck at home renovation.

wilsontl19191 · March 2013

Ms.Jade:
A playroom is basically my wet dream. We have a 2 bedroom, 1 bath with no additional space. She plays in the living room and we put it all away at the end of the day to create what we call "grown up space". I do like that no toys are visible at the end of the day, but I think I would like to leave things out even better.nbsp;

This! I have no idea where we are going to fit another child.

pennysuedog · March 2013

In this house we actually have a big playroom. The playroom is about 15 by 25. It is downstairs. We keep most of Violet's toys in the living room though because that is where I hang out with her during the day. The toy room has all the kids toys, crafts, video games and dvds except for chocking hazards, those the older kids have to keep in their rooms (barbies, small action figures) the legos are all kept in the office because they are my husband's hobby.

My toy room is always a disaster, being downstairs it is nice because company doesn't have to see it. I think that the more space for toys the more crap you get and it is pretty ridiculous here.

cantalopes24 · March 2013

pennysuedog:
I think that the more space for toys the more crap you get and it is pretty ridiculous here.nbsp;

The finished part of our basement is about the same size. It was intended to be the kids play room and there is soooo much crap down there for no reason other than we had empty space our junk expanded to fill it. I haven't been in our basement in months, MH cleans it and does our laundry so there's no reason for me to be down there. The only time it's used is when E plays his drums. Even though its nice and there's a bathroom everyone wants to be where the family is and E plays in his room if he wants to be in a separate space. I hate that we have a room that exists for no reason other than to be a plastic filled junk pile and I'd hate it even more if it were on our first floor.

LCass · March 2013

Right now, the toys are in the living room mostly in two sections (her play kitchen is in one corner and her bookshelf is in the opposite corner), but of course they spread throughout the living room and other rooms over the course of the day. In the new house, we'll have a playroom in the basement which will double as a guest room. Most of her toys will go down there. I think we'll keep some toys and a bookshelf in her bedroom (upstairs), have a few toys in the living room (main floor) but the majority of it and the big stuff like the kitchen, shopping cart, walker/ride-on toy will definitely stay down there.

Having a playroom was definitely a major selling point for us on the house. If you can make the office work as a dining room, I would definitely make the switch. I feel like it's only going to become more and more important/handy as our LOs get older.

HappyAardvark · March 2013

We have an upstairs sitting area that all the upstairs bedrooms open into, including Wes' bedroom. It's pretty much my dream scenario; he can scatter all his toys and make a mess that I don't HAVE to constantly pick up after, since nobody can see it from downstairs unless the visitor is staying overnight, since the guest bedrooms are up there too.

Elsa1984 · March 2013

We have her toys in her room, which is by the kitchen/dining/living rooms. But she drags her toys all over. When we move, she will have a playroom. I know the toys will still travel throughout the house, but at least when other kids are over playing....there will be a lot of space and we can shut the door so they can squeal like banshees.

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