Are you here looking for your own toy storage plans because purchased furniture leaves you frustrated?

Toy storage devices and even published toy storage plans just are leaving something out. As a grandfather I was frustrated that my grandchildren were often as odds with their own parents about toys spread out all over. If I could just buy or build something to help my son and his wife out. Don't age and experience give us the wisdom to help our kids in their own parenting?

I played a lot with my first grandchild and kept looking for a gadget or piece of furniture to help out with keeping the toys in storage. I looked at all the usual places: Penney's, Sears, Ikea, Target, Toys-R-Us. Not much help. Of course there were toy chests, toy bins, toy hammocks, toy shelves and toy boxes. I couldn't see how the would avoid taking all the toys out and spreading them all over the play room.

Even on-line: Amazon, Just for Kids, Pottery Barn, Company Kids, The Land of Nod, Step 2. Same story. Lots of nice designs with cute characters painted on them. The minimal features were all the same.

What I had noticed when watching my grandson was that he would be quite willing to help put toys away. Unfortunately if there was more than 2 or 3 to put away, he would find an interesting one in his hand and would forget that he was putting away toys, until the next less patient reminder. My question was: "Why does he have to have EVERY toy out in the first place?"

So I came up with five criteria for a good toy storage plan:

1. Kids only need a few, high quality toys available.
2. Kids want to be able to see where the toys are when they go looking for one.
3. When they are done playing with each toy, it should have a specific place or "home" where it belongs.
4. Kids should never have to face the daunting task of picking up dozens of toys at once.
5. A toy in the hand or on the floor that the child is done playing with should still have "value" in exchange for a new toy.

I looked at a lot of toy storage plans to see if any met these criteria a little better.

Here is a good one at the Toy Train Table Plans Store where the toy storage is close to the specific Thomas train play area. That's a start.

This one at the woodworkersworkshop at least has transparent bins, so the child can see each toy

So I went to my own workshop, with these 5 criteria clearly in mind. Take a look at the toy cabinet I came up with in this video:

What parent has the time and patience to monitor their children putting each toy back all day long? In this design the toy chest itself wouldn't let the child get the next one out until they had put one back. I liked the idea so much I patented it. You don't have to go through all the detail and technique to build one when you can finally get one that makes the toy clutter problem go away. It will be there, patiently, for years to come.

I'm Rick Rantilla and I'd like to build one of my patented designs for you. Give me a call at 919 279-3045 right now. Or take your time and look over the other ideas in this web site.

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