Hey guys,

Looking for suggestions on how to organsie the abundance of toys we have around here.

The toys are in our living room, as thats where DS plays (dont' really like him upstairs in his bedroom, he gets into to much trouble up there

I've taken a photo of the toy pile at the moment - we have a few boxes but all the toys are just chucked in there, and i would prefer to group them together (i.e. car toys in one container). We also have a huge heap of soft toys that i have no idea where to put.

I want something that the kids can reach themselves, i don't want to constantly be getting things down for them, so something that is wide and not tall is better (i saw this hanging cylinder for soft toys from ikea, but DS would only be able to reach the bottom section so its a bit silly).

At this stage i'm leaning towards getting some cheap low bookshelves, and getting tubs that go in it so i can divide the toys. Then i might just get a plain toybox for all the soft toys.

As its our living room i would prefer something that looks niceish also - i saw some nice cube bookcases (except they are very expensive!!), which could be nice, but as long as i get some nice tubs for the normal bookshelves i don't know that the extra price for the cube ones is worth it.

I've also included a pic of some system i saw on ebay - but i guess its no different in theory than the bookcase & tubs idea.

Flickr: Photos from davis_fam_photos


Am i missing something? Does anyone know of a great way to organise toys???

And what do you guys do with the bigger stuff like pretend strollers, trolleys, block carts etc... I've got a little row of them going, but it makes the room look so junked up. DS rarely plays with them anyway, so i'm thinking of putting them away, unless somebody has some great storage ideas??

Thanks