"Big" Toys - where do they go?

[CarpeJugulum]

DS is 18mo and is starting to get "big" toys like the Little People garage and the Zoo.

He mainly plays in the living room (although he has a folding tent in the hall) and I miss having a clutter free room.

I have crates etc for cuddly toys and shapes and all the little bits of crap toys that wander off and these get stuck into the corner so out of the line of sight, but I'm a bit lost with the big things. We have couches against two walls (plus DVD racks), third wall is a window and fourth wall has a table/display thing so there is no obvious storage in here.

What do you do with big toys belonging to your DC?

At the moment they sit behind the couch. I'm looking for a better solution too!

See. I'd take behind the couch, but my couches don't have sloping backs and really do have to sit against the wall or they are literally in the middle of the floor.

Doesn't help that our door into the room is on the diagonal between two walls (so it cuts the corner IYSWIM) and this we loose a heap of wall space.

Stoopid "individually designed" house. Lovely for a couple, lousy for kids.

In their bedrooms?

I'm all for a play free-for-all during the day but while the bath is running it's tidy-up-time and all gets neatly returned to their bedrooms. DD, 4, is a good help. DS, 15m, believes it's a challenge to try to get them all ack out again it he will learn

*back out
*but he will learn

stoopid phone

Again, not really an option.

Our house isn't the standard layout, so the stairs to upstairs are at the end of a corridor and round a corner, and then the stairs go round corners too - hence why DS doesn't play in his room unless I'm upstairs tidying.

I think I'm looking for the impossible tbh.

I think I'm going to have to reorganise the living room a bit and shift a couple of little tables at the end of couches and then sort things that way - I can then pen his toys into a corner with a strategic throw over them

I'd just hoped there was a way to make them disappear really

Our big toys just live in any spare nook and cranny on the floor in various rooms that DD plays in. Generally against walls or under the sofas/her bed. I don't actually mind them - she loves her toys and so they make me smile. They look a lot less like clutter once they're tidied away against a wall at the end of the day. And one day she'll not have so many toys so in the grand scheme of things, I'm fine with them.