megs4413
11-30-2006, 12:23 PM
i've been trying in vain to keep DD's toys contained *for the most part* in her room. i like to keep the living room toy free except for what she is currently playing with. unfortunately this just doesnt seem feasible. she gets frustrated at having to drag toys out here from her room and wants me to come in her room to play with her, which i do during the day, but when Dh is home we want to all hang out together. and i never seem to get the toys out of the living room in the evening. i can't get them back into her room once she's in bed becuase...she's in bed! i can't go walking in there with a bunch of toys!
our living room is quite large so it's not a storage issue just an aesthetics thing. i know soon enough our LR will have the swing and the exersaucer and the PnP in it for DS so it's not like i can keep the house "kid neutral" anyway. so why even try?
the real question (boy it took me too long to get here) what kind of toy storage situation can we do in here? i guess i need a box of some kind that's easy for DD to get toys out of (so not too deep) and looks decent in my living room! our end table has some storage underneath it so if the toybox was small enough i could tuck it in there when DD was done playing or if we were having company. but it would have to be like microwave size to fit there. i don't want something wooden because i want to be able to move it in and out of the room as needed.
any ideas? what does everyone else do about this?
our living room is quite large so it's not a storage issue just an aesthetics thing. i know soon enough our LR will have the swing and the exersaucer and the PnP in it for DS so it's not like i can keep the house "kid neutral" anyway. so why even try?
the real question (boy it took me too long to get here) what kind of toy storage situation can we do in here? i guess i need a box of some kind that's easy for DD to get toys out of (so not too deep) and looks decent in my living room! our end table has some storage underneath it so if the toybox was small enough i could tuck it in there when DD was done playing or if we were having company. but it would have to be like microwave size to fit there. i don't want something wooden because i want to be able to move it in and out of the room as needed.
any ideas? what does everyone else do about this?