We moved into a new house 2 weeks ago and have pretty much everything unpacked and put away.
We finally have a basement/rec room for the kids. We have one closet dedicated to games, puzzles, crafts/coloring, and the bottom shelf has baby toys so he can easily grab them.

We have another closet under the stairs that I’ve been keeping the bigger/bulkier toys in. Attached a pic so you can see what I mean. Mostly big boy toys like Imaginext Batcave, hot wheels garage, little people house, etc.

DH thinks we are wasting good storage space for other things we have (as adults). He wants me to find an affordable shelf or other unit that can store these bigger items. I personally think the closet is fine but I want to make him feel like he has a voice and I’m not just dismissing him.

What do you do with these bigger toys? I guess I could leave them out but I really hate clutter and like that the play area of the basement is pretty open at least on one side. I don’t want to line every single wall we have with toys. I like order and for everything to have a place or a way to sort of hide it. Getting harder as my almost 5yo gets bigger and so do his toys!

Or is that just what everyone does, keeps them all out???