Your challenge is to find containers that go with your sense of style.There are many ways to use ordinary living room and den furniture to store toys. You can hide toys in end tables with drawers, coffee tables with pull out baskets or drawers, and ottomans with removable lids.
Storage coffee table ottoman from Amazon.com by Coaster Home Furnishings
Winsome Morris Coffe Table with baskets from Amazon.com
You can put children’s toy sets into more attractive containers and place them on open shelving.
Be sure to coordinate the bins if they are not transparent.
Bladis basket from Ikea
Bristol storage box from The Container Store
Bento Boxes from Rubbermaid
If you have large toddler toys, consider getting a room divider screen, or a shelving unit that works as a room divider, like the Ikea Expidit bookcase seen here and available at Ikea and Amazon.com
Ikea Expidit bookcase
The best way for toys not to stick out like a sore thumb is to have fewer toys. Only keep what you have room for and they won’t stick out at all. Extras can be put into a storage closet and switched out occasionally.
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