How can I store soft toys cleverly?

[~Trish~]

I get a massive nesting urge when I'm pregnant LOL! I spend my second and third trimesters going mental - decluttering, cleaning, rearranging, etc. I am a woman on a mission!

So, one of my missions is to find a proper home for our boy's soft toys. They have been given so many teddy bears and things and they do love to play with them so I can't make them "disappear" to the op-shop . BUT I have no neat place to store them. Currently they are sitting on an armchair in a corner of our lounge room that is covered most of the time by a door so they're not in-your-face IYKWIM. I really want them out of there, but I don't know what do do with them . I am trying to keep DS1's room as decluttered as possible because DS2 will be moving in there with him soon. I don't really want them on display (like on top of a set of drawers) because I think it will be something I have to constantly "fix up" when they pull them all down.

Does anyone have any clever ideas of how I can store them so they aren't in the way all the time, but the boys can still easily access them? I don't have a toy box and don't really want to get yet another large item to find a home for LOL! Oh, I'm making this hard on myself aren't I? There probably is no answer to my question .

Please tell me, what do you do with your kid's soft toys?

TIA

[Pandora]

we have an inexpensive netting thingy that hangs from the roof,so its on display in the sense that you can see it, but all the toys are insude so no need to "arrange" them or anything like that.

[~Trish~]

Ooh thanks rayray, does it look a bit like a hammock? Or is it something different to that? Where did you buy yours from?

[Pandora]

mum bought it for me, but places like kmart, target, even ikea have them. I have seen ones like hammocks, but ours hags vertically so like a tube

[Willow]

I was going to suggest the same thing - Ikea have them too, I saw them on the weekend. Theirs is like a long netted tube thingo with holes in the front to put the toys in. Have a look at the website, I'm sure you'll see what I mean.

PS you don't have a toy box??!! Where do all the toys go?!

[~Trish~]

Thanks rayray and Willow, I know what you mean now, they are a great idea! I will definitely have to check them out (and get it past DH, he is so picky about storage).

Willow - I have a clear tub that I keep everyday toys in and I have some in storage for toys we don't use that much, but I'm trying to avoid getting more, they take up so much space!

[tattoo_mama]

yep i was gonna suggest those clear tubs like they sell at red dot, that have click on lids and wheels on the bottom...i have 2 that are already full of soft toys for baby and they fit right under the cot and are out of the way...if your boys have room under thier beds maybe this is an option/ having the little wheels on the bottom are great cause they dont struggle to pull the box out....i got mine from red dot for like $10 each