Tips for made to measure toy storage please or toy storage in general

[TheHouseofMirth]

DS's room has practically no furniture in it and his toys are everwhere. I've managed to talk my friend's dad into constructing some made to measure units for DS's room but I've waited so long to get his room looking nice and functioing well that I really need to get this right and I'm dithering.

I'm thinking something a bit similar to this. I'd like deep drawers or cupboards at the bottom so it's not all out on show and then shelves for books, larger toys and probably some toys in boxes/basket.

DS is almost 5 and I'm finding it hard to imagine whether future toys will be big or small.

If you use boxes/baskets what size is best?

Help!!!!

I have the Lazzari modular storage from The Great Little Traing Company installed in my kids' bedroom (aged 8 and 5).

It's not particularly cheap but you can configure it how you want and choose whether to have drawers or just space as a shelf.

The large drawers are great for dressing-up stuff and large items like footballs and swords, the smaller drawers in the horizontal units are excellent for cars, dolls, play food, etc. The double cubes are good for board games and the single ones are great for large books. I've had mine for about 5 years and I absolutely swear by them.

One point: they're not great for use as a bookshelf for paperbacks because the size of a paperback book is significantly less than a whole cube and more than a half-cube, so I use a separate bookshelf for paperbacks.

I dunno whereabouts you are but there's someone in Essex selling a base unit right now!

We have the lazzari system too for DS1's bedroom - having baskets you can pull out and then chuck all the toys back in when you're done is great. I'd definitely incorporate some book shelf space into your system - we dont have enough in DS1's room and its driving me crazy...

Thanks. I think the cubes are nice but I like the Aspace ones as I think it'll be better to have shelving which isn't fixed so it can change and grow as he does.

Any more tips or suggestions?