As the title asks, did you have a play room growing up?
I have noticed a LOT of families now have rooms dedicated for play. We have half our living room dedicated to play space.
However, when I was growing up, my room was my play space. There weren't toys in any room but my room unless I brought them out. Which I always had to clean up when I was done.
How about you?
squash / 13208 posts
Oh gosh - no way!! Like you my toys were in my bedroom!
But yes our kids do have a playroom - its suppose to be the formal living room but we aren't formal people - ha - so its a playroom now!
blogger / honeydew / 7081 posts
We did! There was a room in our basement that couldn't legally be a bedroom (no windows or really any light at all...) so we turned that into our playroom. It was awesome! At one point, my parents painted a chalk wall, and bought this old-fashioned school desk, so my sister and I could play school.
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
We did NOT have a play room. Most of our toys were in our room, though there were probably some in the living room too, but the majority of our toys were kept in our own rooms and we had to put them back when we were done playing with them (or at the end of the day)!
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
Nope! I had, like, one Barbie and I shared a room with my brother up until I was 7. And then my bedroom was my play room.
My daughters play in the family room or their bedrooms.
cantaloupe / 6171 posts
We briefly had a play room in the house that we moved into when I was 4, but it was an unheated, enclosed porch we couldn't use most of the year (Michigan--so it got coooold!). My parents converted it into a real room as an office at some point shortly after we moved in, I don't remember exactly when. So mostly we played in our own rooms!
nectarine / 2936 posts
We did and it was a mess. I don't think my kids will unless we move into a house with more bedrooms.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Nope! We lived in an apartment so forget about playspace! I don't ever recall felling deprived or anything though.
pomelo / 5720 posts
We did and we are in the process o turning our small den into a playroom for LO. I want a space where all the toys can live and I don't have to look at them all the time!
papaya / 10343 posts
Not really. Most of my toys were in my bedroom and I just brought them out/put them away. But we did have an unfinished basement that we spent a bit of time in, mostly roller skating and doing messier crafts (and that stuff lived in the basement)
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
No, I didn't have very many toys and they were in my room. I had a lot of books.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
No. Most of my toys were kept in my bedroom. There was a big space behind our family room couch that had a trunk full of toys and my kiddie table & chairs and my blackboard was kept. So I had a play area.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
I think I might have in our old house, I was an only child for a long time and we had an extra bedroom.
The biggest toy I had was my Barbie Dream House and my baby dolls. They were all in my bedroom.
pineapple / 12802 posts
@snowjewelz: Yea, I never knew any differently so I didn't really feel deprived either.
Our eldest boys share a room, so it's hard to make them play and keep all their toys in there. It's kinda crammed already! I am trying to convince DH that we need a bigger house and if that ever happened, the boys would definitely keep their toys in their rooms!
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
My dad turned half of his storage space in the basement into a play room fir us. It was under a sunken living room so the ceilings were only like 5' high and we thought it was so cool that grown ups didn't really fit in there.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Yep, we had most of our stuff in the basement.
pineapple / 12802 posts
@prettylizy: our crawl space under the stairs was like that and I loved playing in it. My mom had made a little curtain to hide all the junk in their and I thought it was the coolest little hideout!
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
I had one at my grandparent's house. We spent more time outside there because they have a farm.
honeydew / 7230 posts
Definitely not. There were 6 of us in a small condo. The outdoors was as close to a "play room" as we ever got.
coconut / 8234 posts
@mrs. bird: HAHAHA! Yes! I swear outside was my second home. We basically had to spend all day outside when it was nice out.
No playroom. It's interesting to me that this is a thing! If we ever have a playroom it will be a playroom for the entire family, not just LO.
pineapple / 12802 posts
@mrsjazz: I never really gave it much thought until the other day when I was getting annoyed at looking at all the mess in our living room and trying to figure out how I could possibly add a small desk for my work.
"why are boys so messy???? I never did this when I was a kiiiiid. oh wait, I never had a play room to make messy". So then I started thinking and realized all my friends with kids have play rooms (or partial playrooms, like ours). When did this change??
coconut / 8234 posts
@.twist.: No idea. We could "play" in our living room but all of our toys were kept in our room. I have no idea when this changed though. I guess we weren't paying attention until we had kids ourselves.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Nope. Our bedroom was the playroom unless we brought our toys out to the living room to play.
pomegranate / 3388 posts
Yes, we had a sunroom off of our living room, although it was typically so messy that it wasn't very useful to play in. My parents should have taught us to clean up better!
grapefruit / 4400 posts
Nope, didn't have many toys to begin with. Our kids won't have a playroom, either.
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