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We're about to turn our livingroom bookshelf into a bench seat with storage and we'll be keeping their toys in wicker baskets. Currently they use the bottom two shelves of the bookshelf plus a diaper cart to store tots and it's a mess even when it cleaned up. I'm tired of it.

Our bookshelf won't look quite like this but you get the idea.

Just baskets. One upstairs and one downstairs.

We have a storage ottoman as a coffee table pre kids so now it's DD's toy storage! It's great it's huge and contains everything so if not for the play kitchen and play mat, you wouldn't even know she plays here!

@tlcbaby: My house is kind of like that, I let my son build and then display his lego creations in parts of the house.

In our family room, we specifically got a table that had a shelf underneath it. I put baskets there, for things like Mr. Potato Head, small games, some vehicles.

For action figures (we don't really have any of those yet) but I was thinking an over the door shoe bag would keep them neat-ish...but I am not sure if that's actually a practical solution.

@PawPrints: My son is 5, so he's not into the dump and run anymore, so we can keep more stuff around. We also have board games stored there and we've surrounded it with low wooden stools so we can all sit there and either have pizza on movie night or play a game. It's also from IKEA, so I don't care if it gets scratched up. Someone posted about a round coffee table with a drawer in it, I thought that was very forward thinking!

I like to store books in a bin. My son also has a desk/hutch in his bedroom and I used the desk level for books, it worked really well because he could just go right up there and pick something out.

We have this in our basement (aka play room) two billy bookcases and a kallax from ikea and some cubes from ThirtyOne!