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Baby Furniture – Toy Storage

From the moment your baby is born, if not before, they will start collecting toys. These will arrive as gifts from friends and family such as tea set toys, or the learning toys you will buy for your baby yourself. Finding enough storage space for these toys before they completely take over you home is a constant battle. So toy storage solutions for your baby’s room are a very important factor to think about when choosing furniture for your baby.

One of the most popular designs of toy storage is a toy bin organizer. These can come in various different sizes and shapes and are basically shelving or rack systems containing several toy bins, or plastic boxes. The different formats will enable you to find one to suit your available space. You can choose taller systems that are just one bin wide, or four bins wide and only one bin tall or anywhere in between.

The traditional toy chest with lift up lid is another option. These are very convenient for putting away toys quickly and out of the way at the end of a day’s play. A disadvantage of this type of toy storage though, can be that it is sometimes difficult to find a particular toy when it is wanted, without turning out the whole chest. Some of these chests double as a bench with a padded top to make useful seating in a child’s room.

Several items of baby furniture can contain extra drawers that should be sufficient for toy storage until your child is older and wants a larger selection of toys. Cribs can have storage drawers underneath, as can changing tables. Soft toys can be thrown into a toy hammock or pegged onto a floor to ceiling pole or chain made for the purpose. As well as being a practical storage solution, these can make an attractive decorative feature for a child’s room.

A cheap and easy solution is to buy some colorful, stacking plastic storage crates and use these to store toys. Once your child gets older and has a lot of toys you can put some of these crates away and just have two or three in their room at any one time. Then when they are getting bored you can pack away the toys they have been playing with and bring out another box or two. This way the child has “new” toys to play with every few days and is less likely to get bored with them. Either number the crates or have a color coded system so you know which toys haven’t been played with recently.

One thing you have to be very careful about once your baby has become a toddler, is to make sure that they cannot pull a stack of toy boxes over onto themselves.  Look for a purpose made toy organizer that is made so that the toy bins cannot be pulled out from a height by a child. Once your child is no longer a baby it becomes much more difficult to keep their room tidy, but clever toy storage solutions will be a great help.