To ask for your amazing box room solutions?

[Islands81]

Poor dd2 drew the short straw and has the tiniest box room in the world. We’ve been here 5 years and I’m currently in the process of binning/donating pretty much all the stuff she had that she never plays with (12 bin bags and counting!).

She refuses to sleep in her high up bed anymore because she once saw a spider (she’s being assessed for ASD and gets a bed in her bonnet about stuff) , so at her request I’ve now bought her a day bed, which has drawers and a pull out trundle underneath. So the big bed is going which is going to create a storage nightmare.

She still has a fuck ton of stuff she claims she can’t part with which is in my room at the moment. Toys, organised into big storage boxes, books, games, the biggest hamster cage in the world, sparkly bags and all that shit. Currently her clothes are not in her room and I can’t see that changing. Where the feck am I going to put all this stuff?

I’ve included a pic so you can see my problem. Please don’t judge the mess (it’s a work in progress!) or the hideous pink walls (she chose them a few years ago and they’re going).

Please share any box room storage miracles that you have!

Oh, forgot to mention the eleventy billion cuddly toys too which are all her ‘favourites’ apparently . Already got rid of 3 bin bags full of the fuckers today!

What dimensions are the room? Is it wide enough for the bed to go across under the window?

Haven’t measured it but no definitely not. It’s an ikea one so 200cm mattress on it.

Bed by window? Hammock for the cuddly toys?

Pinterest is the best thing ever for things like this!

Would love to know too, my DD’s is even smaller, can’t fit a full size single in it 😩

She already has a dangly hangy thing for the cuddly toys, which fits about half of them in, and then there’s another laundry basket full of them too 😭. I think I’m going to have to have another cull when she’s at school.

For cuddles we got a beanbag storage bag . I don’t think Ds sits in it but makes changing the beds easier

We feel your pain. Both our kids are in this one.

Shelf over the bed as high as she can reach standing on the bed for cuddlies.

Plastic storage boxes on hooks on the walls for her stuff at about her chest height that can be lifted down. goo.gl/images/EbcKSt

Sort of like this.

Perhaps another row of boxes underneath for everyday clothes. Stuff that needs to hang may have to stay in your room.

In that room I think you want to avoid having too much of the floor space taken up with storage so anything that can be hung off of a wall is a winner.

Hmm. It disappeared

Ha, no it didn't. Stupid phone.

It might actually look less crowded without the big bed.

If you haven't already bought and built up the new bed could you buy a slightly shorter one that would fit under the window, or is she just too tall, or the space just too short?

Are the walls strong enough to support sort of kitchen cabinets on the wall? She could fit a load of stuff in there. Or just shelves?

@franciscrawford that’s the bed I’ve just bought! I think If the trundle is pulled out it’s going to take up the whole width of the room, so I wouldn’t be able to put anything opposite it. I’m just left with a tiny space at the end by the window, I think the billy shelves I have there now will have to go as I’m fairly sure they will get in the way of the trundle. I might get some of the narrow billy shelves instead.

@busysniping crikey, two in there? That must be hard work!

I like the storage boxes hanging on the wall that Mergedragons suggested. They look really good.

The space is definitely too short for the bed to go across the room by the window. The only kind of bed that might fit there is a cot bed size but she’s way too big for that.

Bean bag for cuddlies is genius! I will look them up.

I tried to click on the link for the storage boxes but weirdly pininterest showed me a pic of the sausage on a pg test . So still not sure what they are.

Dc1 is in our boxroom. It gets easier as they get older as their stuff shrinks - ipads instead of dolls houses. We have a hanging rail instead of a wardrobe so we don't need the clearance for opening doors. All folding clothes in massive underbed drawers. She has a trofast, which is ugly as sin but has a tiny footprint for the storage offered. Lots of wall shelves over the bed, and a tiny desk, which has a glass surface so almost isn't there.

My ASD dd 10 who has ocd like ASD (hoarding type). We sometimes have success with ‘storing’ her precious objects in the loft. Dd is also in the box room. We can’t make changes to her room anymore because if her rigidity, but we have the Ikea draw bed also and I’d probably store stuff by making use of shelving high up in the wall.

The walls are pretty strong so I could put some heavy stuff rawl plugged in without risking death to dd I reckon.

Ahh, keeping stuff in the loft isn’t a bad plan (except that’s also my stock room for my business and dd1 who has ASD also has put lots of her ‘precious’ things up there). I’d rather things went up there than having to trip over them all the time though.

Does she really need a trundle bed underneath??? Blow up mattress for sleep overs and make use of extra storage instead?

Where is the stair bulkhead?

Attach some kallax high up on the wall for stuff she did by use but can't bear to part with? If it's in little boxes she don't see it.