Our house has four main rooms on the first level, plus foyer, laundry and powder room. The house is colonial and shaped like a rectangle and all rooms connect. If you come in the front door, living room is to your right, dining room to your left, kitchen straight ahead. Play room is off the kitchen and connects to the living room. Biggest room in the house is the playroom.
I kind of want to make the current living room the playroom. It feels like a lot of wasted space right now. The current living room seats five. Changing rooms would allow me to add more seating. Plus, playroom has the fireplace.
Am I crazy to have all the toys right off the front hall, though?
Currently in the basement. However (and I knew this going into it) it kind of sucks being down there now because the kids don't want to play down there without me (particularly E) and I don't like hanging out there all day (can't really do my chores, etc.). The benefit is that it can be a huge mess and I don't care. Also I think it will be awesome when they are older/ more independent.
Our old house was an open floor plan and we made a nook off the living room into the playroom. It was much harder in terms of keeping things clean/organized/separating adult and kid space, but awesome in terms of convenience,
The bonus room and living room. We use the living room for everything from playing to its actual intended use. The bonus room is great and perfect for them but Colin won't play alone without me in sight so it's kind of useless rift now. Once he can be more independent, it will be nice. We were thinking about moving the boys into the same room and making Colin's current room a playroom because the boys love being together but I haven't decided yet.
Our toys are just in the family room, we don't have a designated playroom. We do have a living room/office and some toys have migrated in there. Not to happy about that, haha!
Playroom...well, it's in my great room and some in her room. My plan is once she moves upstairs, were going to to get old room (our old office) into the playroom. It's a pipe dream because realistically, once she moves upstairs we'll hopefully be bringing a new baby home.
I'd never have the playroom that has direct line vision from the front door without a way to close it off. I like the idea of people coming over to a grown up house and then they happen to run into the kid mess.
Post by imimahoney on Sept 20, 2014 13:58:05 GMT -5
Scattered throughout the house, lol.
Most of his toys are in the living room which is right off the front door. But then his train table and some other bigger things are in the back room, behind the living room where my Dh works from home. He also has his kitchen in our kitchen. But really our first floor is completely open so toys migrate all over the place.
We saw a house today that we would use the dining room for a playroom until we finished the basement. It isn't the most ideal thing but the types have to go place, right?
Can I tell you in my dream last night my house mysteriously added another room that I didn't know we had and I turned it into a playroom. It was dreamy. I don't have any non used room to turn into a true playroom. So I've lost my living room. Sad face.
I literally have this dream ALL the time. I'll move a bookshelf or something and think, why haven't we been using this room?? I feel so disappointed when I wake up from those.
The toys are just in our great room. Its kind of long and narrow so the train table and some other big stuff is in the back of the room. There are cars scattered across the whole house though, I've given up on trying to contain them.
Post by formerlyllizzyb on Sept 20, 2014 14:32:08 GMT -5
The formal dining room it's a huge room with French doors so we can actually shut it off. We knew when we bought the house we would turn it into a second living area, because we have a large eat in kitchen and would never use a formal dining area at this point in our lives. Our house is all one level.
pinksapphires, your dream made me giggle and sigh simultaneously. I've had that same one!
My H is opposed to this plan because there's no wall for his giant 60" TV in the bigger room. I'd be fine putting our smaller one in there. We don't watch much TV together anyway. Agh. Sometimes I wish H had his own apartment
I just don't want so much wasted room! And it feels like every room is a disaster because so much of our main living space opens to the current playroom.
In the basement, she has just recently been wanting to play down there by herself without dragging me down there too which is great. There are soooo many toys down there though I need to get rid of some! She brings stuff upstairs too so it's not like there's no toys upstairs, but the majority are downstairs. I like not having a ton of toys in my living room.
All of their toys are in our family room/sitting room. Its what you see right when you walk into our house and drives MH crazy. We are thinking about moving most of the toys to the basement, but currently we spend no time down there and have no furniture, so it will take some time and money. Our house sounds very similar to yours.
We have our 3 main bedrooms on the first floor. One of those is our playroom. I plan on turning the upstairs room into a playroom when she is ready to be upstairs by herself. Her kitchen is in the living room, along with a basket of books. If she wants to play in the living room, she just brings her toys from the playroom.
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Post by charmediamsure on Sept 20, 2014 19:35:09 GMT -5
Our playroom is on the main floor. It's technically supposed to be a dining room, I guess, but our kitchen and great room are all open so we don't have a need for a dining room.
Once Jack is older and we don't need a playroom anymore it is going to become my library. With one of those library ladders on wheels. Yeahhhhhhh.