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mellyrose
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Posted: Oct 18 2007 at 1:05pm \| IP Logged

I've been reading the "where do they sleep" thread with interest, but I'm curious about where the toys are?

Right now, our boys share a room with twin beds (which I love bc each has 3 drawers underneath.) We also have a room dedicated to a playroom (with shelves and bins) and Lydia is in our room. There is no additional space in the boys' room, unless we move out their dressers (something I've been considering strongly and putting racks and bins in the closet for all clothes storage. BUT, their father made their dressers by hand and so there is some angst there.)

I've been debating moving out the dressers, and moving Lydia into their room (some months down the road yet) and keeping the playroom. OR, making the playroom into a room for L and finding a way to fit toys into the boys' room.

Ideas? We live in AZ and so have no basement (which is probably the only thing I miss from the midwest! That and good, inexpensive food at small restaurants.)

No dining room - we have an eat-in kitchen and living room with no storage and no place to put toy storage.

I'm just very curious where the toys live in your homes.

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Posted: Oct 18 2007 at 1:24pm \| IP Logged

Well...right now...all over. We did clean a whole bunch of the toys out of the boys' room a couple of days ago. Now I need to address the rest of the house. Our toy situation has really gotten out of hand. I can't wait to see everyone else's reply.

Jen

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Posted: Oct 18 2007 at 3:42pm \| IP Logged

We are blessed with a huge house that includes a walk-up attic, which is where the vast majority of toys and off-season clothes are kept. I'm guessing that you probably don't have one of those...so thinking of other options...at grandma's house (she still has 2 kids at home + lots of toys for the grandkids), toys are kept in a storage ottoman (in place of a coffee table), and in baskets or bins on closet shelves. So instead of moving all the clothes into the closet and getting rid of the dressers, will all the clothes fit in the dresser and under-the bed drawers and the toys on shelving in the closet?

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Posted: Oct 18 2007 at 4:00pm \| IP Logged

I currently have my 3 "big" kids sharing a room, with the 3rd bedroom a playroom. But, I feel they've reached a point where the genders need to be separated a bit, so we'll be switching rooms soon. They share one dresse between them--just for socks and underwear. We have a huge closet room (big enough to be a bedroom really) where all the clothes hang. We use bins like these to help contain the chaos.

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Posted: Oct 19 2007 at 1:13pm \| IP Logged

All five of mine are in one bedroom (the twins are still in one crib). We have two large Rubbermaid totes of toys, a doll crib, and a nice play cook stove. Those are ALL in the children's room. We don't put toys anywhere else in the house.

We've got 1100 sq ft, three bedrooms. The dc are in one, DH and I get another, and the school/dressing/sewing room is the third (and smallest). We moved both double dressers into the smallest bedroom. My sewing things stay on top of the dressers. The large metal bookshelf we got from Lowe's holds the hsing stuff on the other wall. We also have a small bookshelf in there. The toys are in tubs in the corner of the dc's bedroom. There is a set of bunkbeds, with a pull-out mattress underneath the bottom bunk, and the crib in the room as well. We store the out of season clothes in the closet in that room and put the hangup clothes (for Mass) in the closet in the school/dressing room. All clothes in one room, all the toys in another.

Needless to say, I DO look forward to moving someday in the not too distant future, but until then....lol

Rachel

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Posted: Oct 21 2007 at 11:03pm \| IP Logged

We live in a 3bdrm apt. so our space is very limited. My girls share a room and both have their own closets. We took the closet doors off and so they have their closets full of toys and whatever wall space is left after the bed and dresser. We also have a big toy box in the spare room, which is the baby's room/guest room. They also have a basket of toys in the living room. I pretty much keep things tidy around here though so it's not always all over the floor. I try and remind them to clean up one mess before going to something new and that helps out a lot.

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