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Is there room in a bedroom closet for the stroller? That is where I keep our umbrella stroller. The other one stays in my car.

DS keeps all his toys in his room. He can bring out the few that he wants to play with at a time, but then they go back to his room

We are planning on making one room a designated playroom ... Although in a 3 bedroom house that might not be so easy... So maybe more just a designated area? Toys are still going to get everywhere though so I just plan on teaching them to pack things away after they play ( instead other mums laughing at me here) as for the stroller... Hmmm I hadn't thought of this. I kinda planned on keeping packed in the car or in the garage?

Ours is either in the garage or in the car. The car seems to be the best place because that way we haev it if we need it while we are out and about. Plus it stays pretty clean in there (garage gets dusty).

Trunk of car or garage mainly.

As for the play area, we bought a 5'x6' "fun" rug (the one we have looks like a vegetable garden and is from Ikea) which we've put in one corner of our living room; our floorplan sounds similar to yours - we have a kitchen/dining area and a living room downstairs and 3 BR upstatirs. All of DD's toys are kept in that corner/on the rug and while she can take them off the rug to play they have to be put back each night before bed or if we are leaving the house to go somewhere. We got the rug and started this when she was around 2 (currently 28m) and she pretty much does this without being told anymore. It really helped define the play area without making the whole room look like a playroom.

I have a friend with a house like yours and they keep theirs outside the front door!

right now it's in LO's closet because she isn't here yet. but it will probably remain in the car - if we go on a walk, we can grab it on our way out.

Ours will live in one of the cars. We live in a second floor condo, with hardly any storage space, so the car it is. This is a big reason were very seriously considering the City Mini or City Mini GT. We still need trunk room so a stroller with a small footprint is a must.

In our old place, we kept the stroller in the garage. This house has a small garage that is more like a shed so we can't store in there...we just keep them in the trunk of our car.

I keep toy storage furniture in our living room along with baskets to collect books, toys, blankets, etc. I usually put the baby gym in the LO's closet so it still looks like toys haven't taken over my house. Oh I have to add, we have a toy room at my parents house! Their house has 4 empty bedrooms (well not empty but no one lives there) so they offered to take a lot of the big toys so it's not over crowded at our house.

we keep our citymini in the trunk of the car -- we just grab it on the way out if we are going for a walk in the neighbourhood. otherwise, it's ready in the trunk for outings

we were worried about this at first, too, because we live in a tiny place

we always keep ours in the trunk of our car.

Right now it's either in the car or in the dining room. Our house goes front door, hallway and along the hallway you have a bedroom, bath and then the dining room before you hit the kitchen. It's where we put it if we have been out on walks.

Once we get our shed built, it will stay in the garage. Right now there is no room there for it.

We keep our stroller in the car or garage. We live just a couple blocks up from a cove with 3 mile walking trail around it and the stroller is mostly used when I take LO on that walk, so it makes sense to just keep it out in the garage.

How often are you planning on using your stroller and what for?

For us, I'm going to be SAHM for at least twelve months so I'm planning on taking lots of walks around our neighbourhood with our dog and therefore keeping the stroller in the car would be a pain in the arse for us. I'm hoping to keep our stroller either in our laundry room (when using the carrycot attachment) or folded up in our entrance hallway once Baby gets bigger and we're using the actual stroller seat.

If you're not planning on doing a lot of walking from home, then keeping it in the car makes a lot of sense!

As for all the baby stuff, I'm due in seven weeks and we're still trying to work out where we're going to put everything!