how do you store your children's clothes?

[JenniferJen]

got 4 kids bedrooms to furnish and want to get stuff that will be the most space effective and also easy to put away (all small rooms)
2 girls (who i would like to be able to reach everything now they can dress themselves. and would be good if they can put things away themselves too.

2 boys - both under 3 so i will be doing everything for now.

im thinking the boys can just have a big chest of drawers each? and the girls probably need a wardrobe for their dresses and a chest of drawers for their other things?

We just brought this from Ikea for our son's room. It is very good quality, very solid. The drawers are massive so fit lots in. My son is 9 and he can reach all the drawers and get everything out himself.

You can fit all his clothes in 3 drawers?
i think we have too many clothes

My girls have a 3 drawer chest of drawers each. There isn't room for a wardrobe, so anything that needs to be hung up goes in my wardrobe. Most of their dresses are casual jersey ones, so I just fold them and put them in the drawers too.

I separate out summer and winter clothes to give more room - out of season they go into a suitcase under my bed.

I would say don't buy twice. Eventually the boys will need a wardrobe - school shirts/trousers hanging up etc. Try and get a wardrobe with less hanging space length (no need for long dresses!) and 3 draws at the bottom - might get everything in that.

Both mine have wardrobes and chests of drawers (boy and girl). ds has shirts, t-shirts and jumpers in his wardrobe.

Ds (8) has a small wardrobe, half hanging space plus one of those hangy shelving jobbies inside it for all his clothes inc underwear.

Dd (6) has a slightly bigger wardrobe, separate drawers for underwear and nightwear plus an under bed storage box for out of season clothes

In my defense - ds has no nightwear as he just wears boxers in bed, and about a third of dds wardrobe space is taken up by princess dresses.

Agree with previous posters - boys could prob manage now with just drawers but will soon need an actual wardrobe.

This and this. Fab.

15 month old has baskets under the change table for tops/trousers/vests/pj's then dresses are hung in wardrobe

I just moved into a house with fitted sardines - loads of hanging space and not much else
I thought it would be a pain bit actually its so much tidier and easy to find stuff when its hung up - so I advise more hanging space!

sardines??? Wtf. Wardrobes!

I second perfectlybroken - hang up as much as you can. I find if something gets folded and put in a drawer by the time i find it again it doesn't fit! You need drawers for undies, socks and nightclothes put every thing else on hangers

Both my dc have wardrobe and chest of drawers. But luckily wardrobes are built in to house (new ish). I didn't use the wardrobes so much when they were little and their clothes all went in the drawers but as the clothes bigger and bulkier, the wardrobes are used more and drawers are for things like underwear, leggings, tshirts.

I did wonder about fitted sardines

sardines??? Wtf. Wardrobes!

We've just bought a large wardrobe for the boys (3 of them), it has three equal sized spaces and three draws under each. The top space I use for their sheets and blankets.

I used chests of draws for them and only my daughter had an ikea wardbrobe. It was a serious pain in the arse to be frank.

We have the pax from ikea, floor to ceiling with drawers, hanging and shelving all built in.with sliding doors. It's a huge amount of storage

Ds1 has a Stuva wardrobe from Ikea with 4 shallow drawers plus two sliding baskets inside. Perfect amount of space.

Before that he had the Ikea MALM 6 drawer chest, which worked well apart from shirts which went in his brother's wardrobe.

We have the stuva for ds's little room. Wardrobe on top and drawers underneath. Fits his stuff well and isn't too big.

This is what we have.

I too wouldn't buy "for now" as they will soon grow - I'd buy wardrobes for them all.
You can then put a rail at half height whilst the dc are small, which gives you twice as much hanging space, and also means they can reach stuff themselves whilst still quite small.
Hanging is the way forward as it means no ironing. Things are more likely to get creased if being stuffed into drawers.

Funnily enough we had been looking at the Stuva range too. Looks perfect for what we need. There is no way my girls would fit all their stuff into one though. Maybe 2 each. Or one each and a big chest of drawers each.

Wow that's a lot of stuff! Ds (11) has two (admittedly deep) drawers 0.8m wide x 0.5 deep. Dd (5) has a basket that's the equivalent of one of ds's drawers.

The fitted sardines made me lol

Yomel - so with your 5 year old. she has one basket and that's it? uniform, weeekend clothes, underwear etc all just in one basket? genuinely interested as i do want to cut down but really can't see how that works

I have two dc's. Boy and girl. 3 drawer chest each. Undies in top, tops in 2nd, bottoms in third. All seperated in those drawer tidy things. They have a pink box and blue box for their respective uniforms on top of their chest of draws. This way when i wash they can put away for me. They are 6 and 5. Wardrobes is good but mine would struggle to hang stuff so i opted for draws.

Each of mine has a chest, 4 large drawers and 3 small - the small ones are for, well, small things (underwear, swimwear etc) and the large are for uniform, trousers, t shirts, jumpers, skirts. School shirts and party dresses hang in a wardrobe in our room (they have half, DH has the other half, and I have my own separate wardrobe). I just store their bedding in with ours, underbed drawers in our bed.