Nope, we don't have a dedicated playroom. We have two smaller play areas, one in the living room and one in the family room. It wasn't on our list when house hunting.
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Yep!
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yes, its where the formal living room is suppose to be - we aren't formal so its now a playroom.
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We turned our formal dining room into a play room. We are hoping to move soon and a dedicated playroom is on my list!
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@lilyann: We did the same.
Our house came with a formal dining room - I am so not formal enough for that! It makes a much better playroom
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We renovated so that we have a open floor plan so the dining, kitchen and living are all one big space.
I do want the kids to have a homework area when they're school aged though.
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@swurlygurl: same same! We have a small formal dining room that is somewhat enclosed and really easy to gate up. We have no formal dining room furniture so immediately turned it into the playroom!
It's awesome because you can see it from the kitchen or the living room and keeps all her toys corralled in one area.
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My LO is still on the way but no we won't have a designated play room besides her actual room/nursery. Growing up my brother and I played in our rooms so I didn't even know people had separate playrooms until hearing about it on HB.
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No, our house is just big enough for a room for each and we spend most of the time in the living room.
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No, most of his playing is done in our living room and we don't have a separate family room. He also sometimes plays in his bedroom, especially with his train table.
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We have an unfurnished family room that is our playroom for bigger toys right now. We need some furniture!
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@regberadaisy: Same. We have an open floor plan which I like because it allows me to keep an eye on the kids while they are playing.
I would really like to have a big finished basement room when we move someday, though. A multi-purpose room that could store all the toys!
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Yes! I'm so happy we have one.
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I have a raised ranch, the playroom is on the "ground" level and the rest of the house is upstairs. The playroom contains all of my son's toys, plus a TV watching area and our desks.
I have no problem with him being on a different level than I am, i can watch him on the Foscam anyway.
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Nope. I one day hope to have a living room and a family room, with our office area and the bigger toys being in the family room.
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Eventually (hopefully in the next six months) we'll have the rec room finished in the basement. It'll be play room/media room.
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They did until #3 came along lol! We might have the girls share a room in a year or so...then we can have a playroom again. We just have so many toys everywhere in the house! The kitchen, great room, loft, their bedrooms (that one is the worst...naps don't happen because of it).
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@lilyann: @swurlygurl: @Ginabean3: Same! We unintentionally turned that space into their playroom since we never used it for dining anyway.
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Nope. Don't have the space for that. Our entire apartment is her playroom.
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No. We have considered having the girls share a room & turning DD1 s room into a toy room but DD2 won't even be here until April & we are working on plans for building on eventually so we'll see what happens. I like sleeping g so nobody is sharing any sleeping space with the or sister until everyone is good at the whole sleeping thing! lol
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@regberadaisy: yes, its called our house. her stuff has taken over every square inch less our master bedroom and bath.
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No, but that's definitely near the top of the list when we build. Right now my living room looks like a preschool.
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Yes, I absolutely love our layout now. We just bought this house over the summer and they had a room off of the main living room that they called a sunroom. It has a lot of windows and a slider, but it's not really a sunroom. It is perfect as the playroom. I love that I have a safe place for him to play and a place where the giant mess of toys can live. It was torture spending time at my parents' last weekend because he wanted to crawl around and explore (including the stairs) and we kept having to reign him in and he'd get upset.
ETA - It's hard to explain our layout. In this pic I was standing in the kitchen and you see the livingroom with an open doorway to the playroom on the right.
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No. We have an open floor plan. He has a play nook between the living room and kitchen.
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@oliviaoblivia: that's what we have! Half our basement is the media room and the other half is the playroom. It works out great!
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Yup, but we just lucked out. We bought our house pre-kids and didn't put much thought into the layout, but it all works!
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DH's office is right off the living room. Half of it is her playroom. Once we finish the basement, DH will move into the basement.
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No dedicated playroom, but he has toys in the living room, office, and his bedroom. His bedroom is plenty big enough to double as a playroom.
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Yes. It is on the smaller side, but enough to keep her stuff in a contained area.
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nope but the lving room is really big, so most of his toys are in there but we still have more then enough room for all the adult stuff too. I like it because I can see the kids from the kitchen.
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Yes! We just made them one out of my former studio, after I sold my business a couple of weeks ago! Before then, their main play space was the living room. I have to say, I love having a space that's theirs, and no toys in the living room anymore.
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Yes! It's supposed to be a sitting room I guess but we never used it until we made it into a playroom for DS. I love having all of his toys out of our LR.
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Nope. The house is her play room. Her toys are primarily in a small area behind the couch with a playmat and her kitchen, as well as her room.
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DD did.. up until I got pregnant with DS and turned it into his room
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Mine won't, and I didn't either growing up... we just played in our bedrooms or the living room, and cleaned up after.
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Yes, but there are still toys everywhere
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Nope, her play area is the living room. We -could- use our spare/guest bedroom as a playroom but it doesn't make sense to me to spend all that time up there instead of where everything else is, and that room is really small compared to our living room.
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We will, sort of, once we move into our new house TOMORROW! We'll be using the conservatory as a play room, it will also double as another dining room when we have large family gatherings, but its main purpose will be as a playroom. Cannot wait for the girls to have their own place to play!
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Nope, she plays in the living room. I didn't even think of it when house hunting since that would have been out of our price range. I think I only knew one family that had a playroom growing up.
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