storage for kids rooms?

I just have those cheap cube bins from the warehouse which are stacked on top of each other. I had grand plans of building a shelving unit for them to go in, but that never happened.

My next project is to organise all Han's drawing/painting stuff into closed containers. Fellow creche mummy had the best cubby uni/container combo ever. All the cubbys fit about 3 containers stacked on top of each other and they were all filled with nicely organised things... and if one was out, the other had to go back. Wish I (or Hannah) was that tidy!!

We have one of the three drawer multicolored ones in the lounge for Maya's pens/paper/coloring books etc. and she has two sets of pink sparkly plastic drawers (also from the Ware Whare) to tidy up her toys - barbies in one, little people in one, puzzles in one etc.

At the Warehouse I've seen a neat piece of storage equipment for kids rooms.
A set of plastic cubes/boxes arranged as a bookshelf - 3 teared (sp?) with 3 cubes on each row. Nice bright colours & easy to get at etc (the cubes have no lid & are set on the self slightly tilted; so your able to see what is in them)
Will look at getting something similar for my boys rooms. Priced at around the $50ish mark, i think.

storage bins and bookshelves!! we have lots of the 60 litre plastic ones and then paris has a bookshelf you get from warehouse stationery with 9 different compartments.. we got it for $99.. works well, was expensive really but once she's a big girl she can ditchthe toys and stick all her big girly teenager stuff fon there lol.!   

We put her little sets of stuff into lidded containers that stack on the shelves..little containers were $7 each.. we got them one a fortnight, and the cubes fit into the bottom for her larger sets like barbies and her teaset/cooking set. If ayja had room in her bedroom i'd do the same there, but have just got a bookshelf in her room, and then a set of those sparkly drawers that can fit lots of different things.. ie one for dollys one for miscellaneous, one for blocks.. then can just get the drawer out and bring into lounge to play and clean up afterwards.

We also have a 4 drawer set for art stuff and that works well too, the bottom drawer has the crayons felts pens etc, the next has the paper colouring books sticker books coloured paper the next has the playdough and the top has the paints and stamps and messy stuff.. the top drawer is an "only with mum or dad" drawer, they know they don't go into it without us, the playdough is an "ask mum and dad drawer" and the other two they can go into anytime provided they take it to their tables to use.    I am starting to think you guys will think i'm really ocd-mum.







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Oh, are they? I think you're saving me a trip to Briscoe's tomorrow, as I have been sitting here looking at the ad and getting more and more keen on them! But I don't want 'em if they're small. Small is useless! LOL What was the bigger one like?

seriously - warehouse stationery - they have a smaller version of the bookshelf like paris's with only 2 shevles high with 3 across then just get the little palstic crates from the warehouse to slide into them.

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The Warehouse have got the storage drawers (like the turquoise ones in Janine's pic) on sale this week. We've got two sets of the pink ones, they also come in turquoise, purple and a red/yellow/green/blue combo.

plastic box... we got one from there yesterday - bigger and better than the briscoes one for $110. gabriel loved it.