Coffee Table Doubles as Toy Storage
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Welcome to my Clutter Free Living Room with Toddler Toy Storage!
Parents of Toddlers find the their living rooms are soon strewn with toys and find it difficult to maintain an elegant looking space for entertaining guests. Toddlers love to play with blocks, wooden trains, toys with many pieces, toys that stack, toys that clutter your living space.
Toy boxes come in many shapes and sizes but often don't go with your living room decor. As a parent, I have searched for years for the perfect compromise between useful space for storing toddlers toys and maintaining a sophisticated living room.
This lens will explore storage solutions for the parents of toddlers who would like to quickly pick up the living room while allowing their toddler space to play and be a part of the family.
Come discover solutions to storage of toddler toys...
Toy boxes come in many shapes and sizes but often don't go with your living room decor. As a parent, I have searched for years for the perfect compromise between useful space for storing toddlers toys and maintaining a sophisticated living room.
This lens will explore storage solutions for the parents of toddlers who would like to quickly pick up the living room while allowing their toddler space to play and be a part of the family.
Come discover solutions to storage of toddler toys...
Where's the Coffee Table?
Searching for Solutions to Toddler Toy Storage
Photo Credit: Coffee Table Clutter
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When my children were toddlers my living room soon became the play area of choice. The wooden train set was set up on the coffee table and a big plastic container held the extra pieces. The idea was that I could put the train set away in my child's room whenever guests arrived but in reality that never happened. The plastic container got shoved under the coffee table and my living room became a cluttered mess.
For years I have been searching to the solution. None of the options available seemed to work until I recently discovered a very nice looking coffee table with large drawers that slide underneath. The drawers look nice when under the coffee table and are large enough to hold a toddler's toys.
Elegant Coffee Table
Toddler Toys and Train Table
Finally a coffee table strong enough, sturdy enough and large enough to set up your toddler's wooden train set with large drawers underneath for storing the trains when play time is over. This coffee table is ideal for both uses. It is strong enough for toddler toys and elegant enough to have in your living room. You are going to love the new look! An elegant living room with a place to store your child's toys as well!
Summerside Activity Table with 2 Drawers
Amazon Price: (as of 05/30/2012)
This coffee table features:
* Underneath drawers for toddler toy storage
* Drawers include a blackboard on the front
* Casters on drawers move out for easy toddler toy access
* Lip for keeping toddler toys safely on the table
Toddler Toys in the Living Room?
Are you insane?
Photo Credit: Messy Living Room
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Do you have a storage place for your toddlers toys in the living room? Toddlers like being close to you at all times so most families find that their living rooms are cluttered with toys. How can you easily find a place to store those toys where your child can pull them out to play with and quickly pick them up? This coffee table with large drawers is just what you are looking for.
Do you have storage for your toddlers toys in the living room?
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Joan4 says:
Our grands are no longer toddlers, but I still have a big bookshelf in the living room that is filled with toys and videos. There is no tv in there. Just an old timey video machine. And the coffee table is filled with art supplies!
Blessedmombygrace says:
We use under the bed bins and push them under the couch. We don't have a coffee table because it would take up all the free space in the living room.
MissMerFaery says:
In addition to some storage boxes, our coffee table has a couple of drawers which I use to store puzzles, games and books in, and an open section between the table and the drawers which house toys. Still have toddler toys everywhere though! :) Would love the big drawers that come with the table you've highlighted!
Jack-in-the-Box says:
Yes, I used to when they were young. Now that the grandkids are here, I am going to have to find something new.
Dee says:
I have a gorgeous white Train Table with two drawers, It is big enough to use for a dinner table/play table! :)
No
RobinDM says:
We now have a screened in porch across the back of the house. We put up vinyl sheeting across the window opening during the cold season, then it's open during the warm season! All the toys are kept on the porch
daria369 says:
I don't have any toddlers but know that there is never too much storage space for toys.
Becca_Sanz says:
Not yet but when I graduate from college I plan to buy a coffee table with drawers so that some day when I have toddlers they will have a place to play with and store their toys.
Storing Toddler Toys in the Living Room
Store Toddler Toys Under the Coffee Table
Photo Credit: Train Table in the Living Room
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Even families with young children living in a small house can have an elegant space for entertaining guests without banishing their toddlers. Your toddler needs to be with you as he or she plays which often results in the living room strewn with toys. Either you must haul all the toys back to your child's room or put up with a toy box that does not fit the decor of your living room.
Over the years I have tried various solutions to the problem of storing toddler toys in the living room but none has worked as well as a coffee table with drawers. My toddler pulls out his or her favorite toys from the drawer under the coffee table. When time for a nap or guests arrive it is just a matter of sweeping the toys into the drawers under the coffee table and a play room is instantly turned back into an elegant place to entertain guests.
Look for a sturdy coffee table with drawers for toddler toys.
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“HELP! Company's coming and the living room is cluttered with toddler toys! What can you do?”
Look for a Coffee Table with Large Drawers
Occasional coffee table with 2 drawers for Toddler Toys
Activity Table with 2 Drawers
With a play space above and storage drawers below this is the perfect coffee table!
Small drawers just won't hold enough toys. The large drawers under this coffee table hold lots of toddler toys. I especially like this version of the coffee table because the drawers match the coffee table itself, disguising its use as a place to store toddler toys. Scoop the toys into the drawer and your living room is left elegant and picked up almost instantly while at the same time all ready for when your child is ready to play again.
Where do your children like to play?
Play where the Toddler Toys are Stored!
Photo Credit: Playing in the Living Room
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I'm not sure about your children but my children like to play in the living room. The isolation of their bedrooms is not where they want to play nor store their toys. Toddler toys can be stored in the large drawers under the coffee table for your child to take out and put away quickly and easily right there near you.
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Coffee Table or Sensory Table
Toddler Toy Storage in the Living Room or Science in the Kitchen?
The coffee table mentioned here in this article is perfect for storing toddler toys that would otherwise leave your living room a cluttered mess, but what about the mess children often create in the kitchen?
A sensory table contains the mess created by experimenting in the kitchen with things such as water, rice, mud, bird seed, marbles, kitchen chemistry experiments etc.
Which would you rather own, a coffee table with toddler toy storage or a sensory table?
Sensory Table for Messy Science Experiments
Blessedmombygrace says:
I would love the sensory table!
RobinDM says:
I love, love, love a sensory table! But I really enjoy this idea of the coffee table being a storage unit. It makes so much sense. Very practical!
Jack-in-the-Box says:
A sensory table is pretty cool.
Where do you store your toddler's toys?
Are the toddler toys stored in the coffee table?
Some people story toddler toys in baskets and some find that toddler toys just stay scattered all over the living room floor. One day I discovered a coffee table with large drawers underneath. The coffee table is just the right height for your toddler and when company comes, with a sweep of the hand, all the toys are whisked away ready for tomorrow's playtime.
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Stocking Stuffers for Toddlers
Storage for Stocking Stuffers
Photo Credit: Toy Trains
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Toddlers love wooden trains. Add delight to your child's Christmas by including toy train cars, bridges and other pieces that handily fit into Christmas Stockings. Then store all your child's wooden train toys in the drawers under the coffee table.
Do you have a place to store your child's wooden train set?
Wooden Train Sets are favorite Toddler Toys!
The neighbor comes over and it's time for coffee. Where will you put the toys away. With this coffee table all you need to do is push the toys into the ample drawers below. Then your coffee table will be ready for the coffee. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and another cup for your friend.
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Train Tables with Toddler Toy Storage Drawers
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There are many choices for storing train tables but I have found very few that I would consider placing in my living room. If your child's room is large enough or you have a toy room, these train tables are ideal. The bright colors are inviting. There is enough room to store your children's train set and soon the playroom is all picked up.
If, however, you have children like mine, who loved to play in the living room, consider a coffee table that will make your living room look elegant while providing storage for your children's train set.
If, however, you have children like mine, who loved to play in the living room, consider a coffee table that will make your living room look elegant while providing storage for your children's train set.
Living Room Furniture for Toy Storage
Toy Storage Solutions
Photo Credit: Building Lego Towers
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After you have the toys on the coffee table stored, you may still find that there are toys scattered around on the living room rug. A couple of other pieces of furniture can provide just what you need. The elegant shoe storage cabinet with its intriguing cubbies is the perfect spot to store small toddler toys. Toddlers love to tuck things into small spaces and these cubbies will encourage your toddler to tuck all those stray toys scattered all over the floor.
Scattered blocks or Legos can be scooped up and stored in the storage cube.
Hide all your toddler's toys right in the living room and leave the appearance that your living room is always an elegant place to entertain.
“Toddler Toys in the Living Room?
Are you insane?”
Pick up, clean up, put it away!
Clutter Free Coffee Table Toy Storage
Clean up! Clean up! Everybody do your share!
Sweep away the mess and store your kid's toys!
What people are saying on Twitter about storage of Toddler Toys:
The best solution to toddler toys in the living room is a coffee table with large storage drawers. Have an elegant living room with just a brush of your hand. Sweep all the toys into the drawer and voila you have your living room back to normal.
Coffee Table Comments
Happy Clutter Free Holidays!
Have you thought about storing your toddler's toys in the living room? That is, of course, where your toddler likes to play. Now you can have your toddler's toys handy but at the same time have an easily picked up living room.
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festivehomedecor
Apr 10, 2012 @ 5:54 pm | delete
- Love this lens! I love the coffee table. I had a train table in my living room. Kept him busy when I was in the kitchen cooking. It has drawers too, but it was the wrong color-white.
Found you on the squidoo it all facebook group. What a great idea!
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CruiseReady Mar 31, 2012 @ 9:13 pm | delete
- I love things that can do double duty! It's not just children's toys that need a place to stay!
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Joan4
Mar 31, 2012 @ 9:59 am | delete
- Years ago a lady came to our little apartment to visit. I immediately started apologizing for the toys. She very quickly and firmly corrected me. "Never ever apologize for your child's toys. This is his home. His toys belong here more than I do." I never forgot that and with the children and now the grandchildren, we enjoy playing all over the house and I never apologize! :)
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Blessedmombygrace
Mar 31, 2012 @ 7:57 am | delete
- I Don't care for coffee tables, but I could go for a cabinet with doors that shut. Fun lens. My kids have so much train stuff, that it wouldn't all fit on top of the table anyway to play with.
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StevenDias
Mar 30, 2012 @ 1:46 am | delete
- Wow! The best lenses I have ever read.
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fanfreluche Jan 20, 2012 @ 6:26 am | delete
- Interesting storage ideas for toys. I don't have a coffee table toy storage: I use one big vintage wooden chest and a wicker chest. My son's wooden train have to be disassembled for storage tho.
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LadyelenaUK
Jan 14, 2012 @ 9:19 am | delete
- Clever idea - Thanks. I like it. (Elena Akin from facebook)
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RobinDM
Dec 10, 2011 @ 3:27 pm | delete
- This is a great lens! Lots of practical advice. Thanks so much!
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OhMe Oct 27, 2011 @ 7:44 am | delete
- When our son was born, I purchased a very old trunk from a replica of a Chinese Clipper. It was Chinese Red with Chinese brass letters on the top. My husband fixed it so the heavy lid wouldn't come completely down to protect fingers. This was used as a toy chest for years and now my adult son and his wife are using it as a coffee table.
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Jewelsofawe Oct 26, 2011 @ 7:42 pm | delete
- I don't have a toddler anymore, but could have used this when I did.
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daria369
Oct 26, 2011 @ 6:23 pm | delete
- These things are changing, depending on how old the kids are and what kind of toys they prefer to play with. Parents just have to grow practical and creative along with their children. Like the storage coffee table!
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Pastiche
Oct 26, 2011 @ 3:06 pm | delete
- These tables with storage are a boom to families with young kids and toys or to passionat needle crafters like me who need a place to stash the yarn or fabric when I'm not working on a project.
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andreaberrios
Oct 26, 2011 @ 2:50 pm | delete
- Very nice, a coffee table is a good idea!
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KM9999999
Oct 26, 2011 @ 2:32 pm | delete
- The coffee table with storage is a nice idea.
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Waxing-Lyrical Oct 26, 2011 @ 2:28 pm | delete
- No toddlers here, but these coffee table toy storage ideas are really unique.
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HSSchulte
Aug 17, 2011 @ 4:35 pm | delete
- Yes, the coffee table, entertainment center, and end tables are all just toy storage disguised as furniture at my house. =) Beautiful pieces here.
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CCGAL Aug 17, 2011 @ 9:57 am | delete
- I had an ottoman with an inside compartment, and a couple of end tables with empty insides and my kids (now 30ish, both) liked putting their things away in them. However, that said, I could really have enjoyed any one of these coffee tables with drawers had they been available to me at the time.
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ChineseKitesforKids
Aug 17, 2011 @ 8:42 am | delete
- Now that is what I am talking about! Mothers need a Coffee Table that Doubles as Toy Storage! Thank you for sharing these. You always share the most wonderful things.
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poutine
Jul 24, 2011 @ 7:32 pm | delete
- That's a neat idea for young families.
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SudokuNut
Jul 1, 2011 @ 9:55 pm | delete
- I love multi purpose furniture. We're going to start needing things like this very soon as toys in this house seem to be multiplying faster than bunnies in summer! It's either push out the walls or make space.
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nyfamily5
Apr 6, 2011 @ 6:43 am | delete
- My boys are grown so I don't need one now. When I'm a grandma I would love these coffe table toy storage.
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lasertek
Jan 6, 2011 @ 8:18 pm | delete
- Never really thought about the coffee table as a toy storage. It is a good a idea though.
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vallain Jan 4, 2011 @ 8:12 pm | delete
- I love making the coffee table work a little harder with drawers underneath.
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Jan 3, 2011 @ 9:14 am | delete
- See www.toysandstuff.net for furniture with dual purpose
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pmolinero
Dec 2, 2010 @ 12:35 pm | delete
- I think I have to redesign our living room and after my daughter went to bed I will have some fun time myself.
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pkmcr Dec 2, 2010 @ 6:25 am | delete
- What a fantastic idea for maintaining the elegance and allowing the kids (us?) to play with the train set as well! Blessed by a passing Squid Angel :-)
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Becca_Sanz Nov 30, 2010 @ 8:45 am | delete
- I wish we had had a train table when we were kids.
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About the Author with Drawers under the Coffee Table!
My living room used to be filled with toys. I had bins of toys and toys all over the coffee table. I never liked this messiness but what alternative was there? I wanted my children near me. I liked to play with them and feel it is important for the children to be near me. Then I discovered coffee tables with drawers underneath for storing toys. What a find! Now my living room is picked up and neat but the toys are just a drawer away!
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