Ornamental Toy Storage Concepts for Residing Rooms and Small Areas
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Use these ornamental toy storage concepts for residing rooms and small areas to maintain toys organized and out of sight, so you possibly can play after which put all of it away! Purchase or DIY toy storage concepts for Legos, stuffed animals, and extra.
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Ornamental Toy Storage Concepts
It looks as if irrespective of how a lot room they’ve of their bed room or a playroom, children at all times need to play with their toys in the course of the lounge.
Particularly when you’ve got a small area the place the lounge *is* the play room, having ornamental toy storage options can maintain the room trying tidy whereas stopping the litter from children’ toys.
So let’s have a look at some good concepts for ornamental toy storage! These DIY toy storage choices are nice for residing rooms and small areas to maintain toys hidden away when not in use — turning your front room right into a hidden playroom!
Ornamental Toy Storage Concepts for the Residing Room

Retailer Toys in an Ottoman or Trunk
Our go-to for hiding toys in plain sight in the lounge is by utilizing double-duty storage furnishings! A storage ottoman (or two, like seen above) can double as a espresso desk whereas additionally hiding toys, sneakers, or blankets inside.
A storage ottoman is a will need to have for any dwelling and definitely worth the funding for storing toys now, and sneakers and blankets later.

This isn’t your grandmother’s toy chest! Construct your personal Easy Wood Storage Chest utilizing our free plans that can be proper at dwelling in the lounge or household room or children room.

For a small area that wants a extra modular storage idea, purchase or DIY an ottoman or bench with wheels, like this Plywood Inlay Storage Field with Wheels. Then your ornamental toy field can simply roll to the middle of the room to play and again alongside the wall when playtime is over.

Our Favourite Storage Ottomans / Benches / Trunks
Use Ornamental Toy Bins on Bookshelves
There’s no want so as to add a garish plastic toy field to the nook of your front room. Work with the shelving you’ve gotten and use sturdy ornamental bins as toy bins as an alternative. Bonus if they’ve lids to essentially maintain issues hidden, or a deal with to make for simple transferring out to play and put away.

Use labels. The simplest toy storage is labeled so children and oldsters know what goes the place and a chalkboard toy field checks each the ornamental and practical (labeled) bins. See how visitor The Hunted Inside made these simple DIY chalkboard ornamental toy bins.

You may simply add an ornamental field or basket to cover toys — this leisure heart turned bench is ideal for a pair baskets of toys!

And you’ll see how The Handmade Home used decorative baskets to corral small toys and books and make their bookshelves look nice whereas additionally being toy-friendly.

Baskets can disguise so many toys! This Wooden Wrapped Storage Dice Shelf takes a primary piece of furnishings and offers it slightly further model — good for front room toy storage.

A dice shelf turned on its facet makes an amazing bench with storage on this playroom by I Coronary heart Organizing.

This DIY wooden tilt-out storage field was designed for spice jars, however would work nice for toy automobiles and artwork provides, too! Put it on a shelf and nobody’s the wiser to what’s inside the gorgeous field.

One other undertaking born within the kitchen however GREAT for toy storage: this simple DIY stacking storage bin. Use it to arrange toys on a shelf or in a cabinet.
Our Favourite Ornamental Toy Storage Bins and Bins

Make Ornamental Toy Jars
An ornamental jar isn’t simply to your decor gadgets or kitchen requirements! Seize a big glass or plastic jar to storage small toys like sizzling wheels, lego blocks figures, individuals and animal toys. A little bit of glue and spray paint makes them further fashionable like these toy jars by Simplicity in the South.

Add Constructed-in Cabinets and Drawers
If you’re searching for new shelving to your front room that can maintain your stuff *and* the toys, built-ins are basic for a purpose!

We added a full wall of built-ins for storage in our Park Home, together with this built-in bench with toy baskets.

And later in our Canyon Home, we used an IKEA dresser and wardrobe to inbuilt a lot storage for our ladies’ room!

A set of premade cupboards made Jennifer’s playroom built-in cupboards an amazing undertaking for a DIYer of any ability stage.

A built-in window seat like this one is a superb addition, and offers a number of room for storing toys plus a kid-friendly place to play with them on prime of the bench.

A mixture of open bookshelves with cubbies and closed storage makes for an amazing TV space with toy storage! See how Tamara constructed this IKEA hack media heart with toy storage.
Construct Your Personal Toy Storage Furnishings
Simply because it holds toys doesn’t imply it has to appear to be it’s for a kid!

We designed this entry desk with cubby storage and hidden storage to look nice in any room, from the lounge to the nursery (with the altering desk topper!)

In any built-in or freestanding furnishings, you possibly can add deep toy storage drawers! Discover ways to construct this complete media heart or simply the toy storage drawers from Hertoolbelt on Remodelaholic.

IKEA Trofast buckets are an amazing low cost method to arrange toys — construct a toy organizer that matches your different furnishings with this tutorial from Shanty 2 Chic. Don’t need to see the hampers? Simply add doorways to the entrance of the cupboard.
Roll The Toy Field Below a Bench

In our entryway, we added a lot storage with a straightforward 2×6 bench with rolling baskets beneath. We made the hampers simply by including casters to galvanized storage buckets, so don’t be afraid to DIY your personal rolling storage out of your favourite field or basket.

Any basket you want could be placed on wheels with this simple DIY rolling basket tutorial by The Heathered Nest. Then simply slide it beneath a bench or shelf, or right into a closet for simple hidden toy storage.

This whitewashed wooden toy crate by Our Home Notebook seems to be nice and is a superb scrap undertaking, too!

Or for even bigger rolling toy storage, construct this one-sheet plywood field.

You may even make a Rolling Lego Desk to slip round for constructing!
..Or Below the Sofa (or Mattress)
The few inches of area beneath the sofa can present an amazing dwelling for small toys and blocks! Identical to an beneath mattress field, any container could be slid out of sight beneath the couch.

Create your personal beneath sofa toy storage from a cardboard field like Creatively Home did.

Or, when you’ve got slightly extra clearance area, construct your personal beneath mattress rolling storage bins that appear to be drawers!
DIY Toy Storage Concepts for Small Areas
When you’ve gotten a small area for enjoying, whether or not a playroom or a bed room, make each bit depend towards toy storage!

DIY Toy Storage Wall Cabinets
Utilizing wall area for books and small toys is a good way to not solely arrange and retailer them, but additionally maintain monitor of what you’ve gotten.

Hexagon cabinets are a enjoyable manner so as to add colour and geometric shapes to the room as seen above and in this room by Today’s Creative Life.
Get the free plans to construct your personal hexagon cabinets right here.
Pegboard Toy Storage
We spied this at a house present and thought it was an amazing concept! Pegboard nerf gun storage. The body makes it like its personal wall hart.

Toy Storage Wall Baskets
Wall baskets and bins are an amazing answer for small area toy storage. It’s simple to hold a basket at simply the best top to your youngster to entry to allow them to simply get out (and put away!) their very own toys, too.

Our simple DIY wooden wall storage bins are nice for gloves or small toys and stuffed animals and take up little or no area.

A horizontal wall cubby shelf is deep sufficient to carry toys, artwork provides, and extra. Construct one with our free woodworking plans right here.

A simple DIY pocket shelf is ideal for holding books and artwork provides or different toys, too! Make your personal with our tutorial right here.

A reasonable curtain rod and these selfmade fabric wall baskets for toys via The Mother Huddle will maintain books, stuffed animals, and toys.

A row of hooks or pegs alongside the wall is a superb answer for thus many issues! These rustic pegs and buckets are labeled for simple organizing, via The Polo House.

A set of hooks and and these DIY peekaboo toy storage bags from Hey There Residence make for nice small area toy storage, too!

A wall planter basket like this one via Chipping with Charm makes an amazing stuffed animal storage spot, too — good for reaching from the highest of a bunk mattress or loft.

It doesn’t must be a “basket” to make nice toy storage — a primary picket crate held on the wall makes an amazing toy shelf in this boys room by The Lily Pad Cottage.
Our Favourite Wall Baskets for Toys and Books
Attempt these nice wall baskets for storing toys — and bear in mind, you possibly can grasp most any wire basket or fabric bin utilizing a set of hooks on the wall!
Stuffed Animal Storage Bean Bag
Youngsters accumulate soooo many stuffed animals, so put some away and rotate them simply by utilizing a toy bean bag like Saving 4 Six did! It’s each toy storage and a comfortable seat for studying.

She used an previous beanbag cowl, and you can even buy stuffed animal storage beanbag covers on Amazon. Actually inexpensive and actually good! (And in addition nice for storing further blankets and poillows!0
Again of Door Toy Storage
Use the again of a bed room door or closet door to retailer small toys (or to filter out area in a closet so you possibly can put toys there!)

Our simple DIY Cupboard Door Storage Bin will add space for storing to the again of any door.

Or construct an entire door organizer unit with April from Wilkerdos.
Toy Storage Cabinets for Small Areas
Cabinets are a gold customary for toy storage — listed below are some nice ones for storing toys in small areas!

A vertical Cubby Toy Organizer Shelf corrals and organizes toys whereas solely taking over a couple of sq. feed of flooring area.

Ladder cabinets are good as a result of they permit for bigger toys on the backside cabinets and smaller toys on the underside cabinets (via Just a Girl and Her Blog).

Including storage cabinets and a bench to a closet make a studying nook filled with toy storage! This DIY closet transformation was shared right here by Fairly Helpful Woman.
Extra DIY Toy Storage Concepts
DIY Home Formed Toy Shelf

Construct a Home Formed Shelf or two for a cute storage shelf for toys and baskets! This open shelving works nice whereas including a cute issue to your children room.
Toy Lockers

Hold books, toys, and dress-puclothse organized with a toddler locker group system via Atkinson Drive.
Gown Up Storage
Gown up garments encourage creativeness… and might create an enormous mess if not organized! A costume up storage “closet” helps arrange and likewise lets children be taught accountability as they’ll grasp up their very own garments.

DIY Dress-up Organizer by Craftiness is Not Elective

Simple DIY Gown-Up Storage
Youngsters Play Desk with Storage
If in case you have room, a kid-sized desk creates so many alternatives for creativity and imaginative play! Each of those choices benefit from the area by additionally having storage within the stools on the play desk.

Youngsters Play Desk with Storage Block Stools

Child’s Playroom Desk by way of Shanty 2 Chic
DIY Stuffed Animal Storage

Stuffed Animal Storage by way of Cugorg
Toy Storage Closet for the Household Room

Toy Storage Closet by Remodelaholic visitor Merely Organized
Youngsters Loft Mattress with Toy Storage
A loft mattress makes area beneath for many toy storage!

Discover ways to construct a princess fortress loft mattress.
Lego Storage

The Ultimate Lego Storage by way of Hometalk Blogger 2 Little Superheroes
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First printed 08.29.2014 // Final up to date 22.12.2022