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(a) Where in the house is it (main living floor, basement, upper floor where the bedrooms are...)
Basement

(b) Does it have a door?
Yes

(c) Was it intended as a playroom, or did you repurpose a living/dining room?
Intended as playroom.

(d) Anything you particularly love/hate about your specific playroom location or set up?
I love that the door down to it is off the kitchen. He can play in there and I can hear him while cooking dinner. The only thing I don't love is the guest room is down there too and so it makes the playroom off limits early in the morning (assuming our guests don't hold the hours of roosters / my toddler) when we have guests due to noise.
The thing I love the most is that all of his stuff is downstairs in the basement. When we have people over we can show them the whole upstairs of the house and just skip that room. It's nice feeling like the decor of my house isn't 100% "a toddler lives here" and that we have a separate adult living space.

It's in our basement. It was originally designed as an office but we repurposed it. It has French doors so I can close them but still see in.

I love having it down there. My DD is 3 and is just at the age where she can go down by herself, destroy the place, and I dont care. It keeps our main floor semi- nice looking. I'm toying with the idea of putting a video camera in there to hook up to our monitor but I can hear her easily from upstairs without it so not sure if I need it or not.

Ours is upstairs, basically a large upstairs living area even though we have another living area downstairs.
There is no door. It was intended as a playroom/gameroom.

Right off the living room
Yes french doors
Technically it is a bedroom, but since the previous owners moved the door and put in the french doors, more like an office space.
I love it. I do wish LO would play in it more instead she drags everything into the living room.

Main floor (it's a one story anyway), yes it has a door (glass French doors, actually) it was originally an office or parlor near the front door across from the dining room. I don't love that it's right up front where you see it when you come in the front door but I like having a room dedicated for toys.

It is upstairs, above the garage.

Yes, it has a door.

It was intended for either a large den or playroom area.

I love it. No complaints. It's so big we put a trampoline in there and have space! And I like that as LO grows he can have a space for a "den" area for friends and large sleepovers.

And to your point all the houses I've seen that don't have a play room are always super messy with toys strewn about the whole house. So it's really nice to have it in a separate space!

I don't know if I can find a floor plan, but our playroom is a bonus room over the garage. It's right off the kitchen, and it has its own staircase so it's separate from the rest of the upstairs bedrooms. There is no door. It was intended as a multipurpose room I think, because there are desks and cabinets built into 3 sides of the room, but we have another office so we may get rid of those eventually. I love it because it's separate and out of sight from the rest of the house but I can easily check on the kids when I'm working in the kitchen.

In our new house it is in the basement. It has it's own doors too. It's meant to be a bonus room and we use it as a second living area and a playroom. LO is still young so I don't feel comfortable with leaving him there on his own to play yet, so that could be a negative, but only for so long. I love that he has his own play area and there are not toys all over the entire house. We had a tiny apartment before so our living room doubled as a playroom and it was really annoying. I'm happy to have designated space.

(a)similar to the floor plan posted above, it's an open loft/playroom area on the second floor with our girls rooms and guest bedroom.

(b) no door

(c) it was intended as a playroom/second living space

(d) Anything you particularly love/hate about your specific playroom location or set up?

I love that it's upstairs out of our main living area. I don't care if it's a disaster! We set it up with our sectional/tv/coffee table from our old house in addition to toys, so adults can relax upstairs while the kids play since they are still young. We can also watch movies as a family up there before bed/ or put on a show for dd1.

To try and cut down on toy clutter, we keep a basket of downstairs toys that we rotate out and the rest of the toys stay upstairs.

That space was actually one of the biggest selling points when we chose to put an offer on our house.

a) ours is on the main floor. which is great because both girls (4 and almost 2) can and will use it no matter where i am at. we've also had a basement playroom and while it was nice in terms of keeping things out of the way, they wouldn't (or couldn't, depending on age) go down there without me being there too!

b) yes

c) it is technically a main floor bedroom. we have the master and girls' rooms upstairs, and a guest room in the basement, so we didn't need it as a bedroom at the moment.

d) like i said, the basement playroom was good in theory, but my kids would never go down there by themselves. at least at these ages! we're also preg with #3, so eventually we'll turn the playroom into a bedroom for one or two kids (it's the biggest bedroom that isn't the master). because it's a bedroom, it's flexible for us to use however we need it (kids' room, playroom, office, guest room, whatever). also, even though it's on the main floor, it's not directly connected to our main living areas, so it's easy to hide it from guests if needed!

Ours is on the first floor, we repurposed the dining room. No door but a doorway leading to the kitchen and the entrance from on the other side to the living room is a cased opening so there is definitely distinct separation between the playroom and the rest of the house. We actually used to have gates up across both openings!

(a) Where in the house is it (main living floor, basement, upper floor where the bedrooms are...)
It is on the main floor off of the kitchen abs a hallway. It was originally intended to be the dining room.

(b) Does it have a door? No, doesn't have a door

(c) Was it intended as a playroom, or did you repurpose a living/dining room?
Dining room. We moved the dining room into our formal living room because we don't need a formal living room and needed a larger space for dining room. Plus the room gets great light and we didn't want to waste it on a room that we never used.

(d) Anything you particularly love/hate about your specific playroom location or set up?
We've only lived in this house for a month, but I love the location! I can be in the kitchen cooking and the boys can be in there playing. I also don't have to worry about the youngest, or any friends/nieces that are here navigating the stairs to get to or from the playroom.

(a) Where in the house is it (main living floor, basement, upper floor where the bedrooms are...)
Ours is on our main floor, connected to our living room.

(b) Does it have a door?
It doesn't. When DS was really little we used a gate, but I like not having a door, that way it's much much open and I can hear him and he can run in and out. The doorway would lend itself well to french doors, but he's not very gentle with the french doors in our office, so I don't think having them in the play room would be a great idea.

(c) Was it intended as a playroom, or did you repurpose a living/dining room?
On the house listing it's technically called the sunroom.

(d) Anything you particularly love/hate about your specific playroom location or set up?
I love the location. I like that it's close to the living room and the kitchen, and I like that it's on the main floor so DS can be close by. I also really like that it's close to the living room, so he has easy access to his toys, but they can easily be put away too. The only thing I don't love is that since it was meant as a sunroom, it has a giant amount of windows and a sliding door. We never use that slider because dirt would just get tracked in and out, and with a huge amount of windows there's not a ton of wall space for organization. But it is really great room, big and sunny.

Here's a floor plan DH made, it's a little off, but gives you an idea of the location. It's the room at the top left.