from a safety perspective, we tend to encourage lounge room play for DD. i'm like WYSIWYG - i'd rather be able to keep an eye on her - and i have a decent tolerance for disorder. Her bedroom has wadrobes with sliding doors, light switch she can reach already, blinds that she finds fascinating, drawers she opens and closes (and trashes the room) - i'd rather have her in the lounge or outside.

we do have a seperate lounge/rumpus/bar room that is kidlet stuff free (well, normally - she will take her baby and pram up there to talk to DH while he fills ice and things - so we still have a limit to where toys etc invade