Cabinets for toys in children's rooms

Every mother knows how difficult it is to get the child to remove the toys after the game. Often you have to collect them yourself and lay out in places. However, it is necessary to accustom to order since childhood.

Therefore, you can turn the cleaning into a game, where each toy returns to its house to rest. And for this, a convenient and functional cabinet for storing toys is absolutely necessary.

The most important feature of modern cabinets for toys is their versatility. In addition to toys, they can store books, stationery, bed linen, clothing. If you have chosen a modular system, then you know that such furniture can be supplemented with new sections, drawers, shelves as needed. These same sections, drawers and shelves must be located so that the child can always reach the toy he needs without difficulty and risk.

Rounded corners, the absence of glass and mirror elements, pleasant to the touch surface - all this must be present in the design of the children's wardrobe. The third distinguishing feature is, of course, design. Cabinet for storing toys can not be dull and dull! However, it is not recommended to perform it in “too girlish” or “too boyish” colors - pink or blue. Children will quickly outgrow these colors and have to change the cabinet to a new one, although it may still be quite serviceable.

What kind of “stuffing” of your wardrobe for storing toys in the children's room will depend entirely on how you plan to have toys and other items necessary for your child in it. There are several options for filling such cabinets:

• Open shelves. The easiest and most versatile way to store toys, games, books and stationery.The child will be able to arrange the toys to his liking, he can, without the help of mom and dad, take them for the game and put them in place after it. The only disadvantage of such shelves is their dusting and, as a result, the need for frequent wet cleaning;

• For systematization and sorting of toys by types in modern stores are available various containers. They can be made of fabric, plastic, wood or woven baskets of wicker or other materials. Such containers can be found in any color and size. They can even be used in the process of games as houses or caves, which, of course, kids will appreciate. These containers can be placed in the corner of a room or they can be used to zoning a room into a play and living area. Instead of containers for these purposes, you can also use soft ottomans with a hollow inner space, chests, bedside tables;

• The most functional solution can be modular cabinet shelving with open shelves in the form of cells, some of which can be left open, and in another part to put boxes, boxes, containers, baskets.Such a rack may not have a back wall and be attached directly to the wall;

• In addition to mobile, the cabinet can also have built-in drawers on rollers. Their disadvantage is the presence of sharp corners, which the child can hurt about, accidentally forgetting to close the box. The same can be said about the doors on the cabinets. If you cannot imagine furniture without these attributes, try to get a closet, the doors and drawers of which are equipped with closers for automatic closing.

A wardrobe for toys and other children's things can not be just a boring classic wardrobe. There are some more functional interior items, which can be useful for storing toys and which your children will definitely like:

• Shelving About them was a little bit mentioned earlier. Open shelves will allow the child to independently arrange all their toy friends according to their taste and discretion. He will be able to get them and put in place when he wants, without resorting to the help of parents. It is convenient to store clothes and bed linen in the drawers of the rack. The rack can be small (3-4 sections) or the entire wall;

• Game cabinets. These include, for example, a large dollhouse or a garage for cars and other equipment. Such a closet will become not only a haven for toys, but also disciplines a child who, even in cleaning toys, will see not an unpleasant routine duty, but a game when all his friends return to their house to rest. By the way, the game cabinet can be homemade - in the presence of imagination and well-known skill, the father can easily make a plywood dollhouse for the daughter or a gypsum boarding for the son;

• Game tables, whether the so-called "corners of the student." As a rule, they represent a table with a multitude of shelves and drawers. The beauty of such a table lies in the possibility of long-term service: while the child is small, he will be able to play his favorite games on the table, draw, arrange books on the shelves and put toys in boxes; when he grows up and goes to school, the table will become a functional place for storing textbooks, notebooks and other supplies, as well as for homework;

• Game containers. Very comfortable and practical. Anything can be stored in such containers, and they themselves can be used as toys;

• Dressers with drawers. Suitable for storing bedding, linen, clothes, toys and board games, stationery and books, in general, any children's things. Make sure that the child can easily open and close the drawers. A plus would be the availability of closers for automatic closing;

• Sliding cabinet with doors, shelves and drawers. If the size of the child's room allows, the best option would be to purchase a large multi-purpose wardrobe in which you can store all the things for the child, from bed linen to outerwear. Such a cabinet will serve a very long time;

• Modular furniture. An excellent solution for those who do not want to change furniture often, but does not like monotony, and also understands that the child will need more places to store things as they grow older. That's the beauty of modular systems: you can buy all the pieces of furniture as you need them, and you will be sure that they will all fit together and look modern.

When choosing a wardrobe for toys in the nursery, you must also consider the following parameters. Dimensions entirely depend on your preferences and capabilities., and, of course, from the area of ​​the room. A place to store toys can be quite small, literally a couple of shelves in the corner, and very large — for example, a full-size wardrobe with many compartments.

The most important argument and criterion for choosing the material for the manufacture of furniture for the children's room is, of course, environmental friendliness and safety. There are many options for materials, they differ in price and quality.

MDF - perhaps one of the best options: with not too high cost, it has good quality, it is easy to process, allowing you to produce interesting, modern furniture; Good for staining.

If the budget allows, pay attention to solid wood furniture. What can I say - absolute environmental cleanliness, long service life and high-quality performance speak for themselves, this is a very good investment.

In many shelves and cabinets there are sliding baskets and wicker drawers made of wicker, rattan and bamboo. They are durable, comfortable and very beautiful. They can be bought separately from furniture and store anything.

Of course, when choosing a color, everyone decides for himself, and if you want to decorate a room for a daughter in the style of Barbie or a Disney princess, then the closet needs to be matched to the appropriate color, since the palette on the modern market is quite extensive. But do not forget that this style of design will be relevant only while the child is small.

So if this is not in your plans, try to arrange the room in neutral tones. Of course, you can place bright accents by buying an original lamp or by pasting wallpaper with an interesting print, but choose a more basic color: peach, beige, olive, pearl gray.

Other options for children's room cabinets can be viewed in the following video.

In order to choose the best cupboard for storing toys and other children's things, try to pay attention to following nuances:

• Any “storehouse” of children's treasures, be it a cabinet, a shelf or a chest of drawers, should have shelves to which the child can get and take a toy or other thing from there;
• The cabinet must be beautiful and colorful, with an interesting design. Forget the dark tones, sharp corners, massive doors;

• Choose as much as possible functional model - with sliding sections, open shelves, doors. This will serve as a guarantee of more long-term operation;
• Do not buy cabinets with mirrors and other glass elements. A child can easily break them and get hurt;
• All corners of the furniture should be rounded;
• If possible, choose furniture not on the Internet, but in furniture showrooms: this way you will be able to see for yourself the quality of the purchased cabinet or shelving.

Children's room is not just a room where a child lives, it is his little world filled with fairy tales and amazing adventures of his favorite characters. Therefore, you need to equip the nursery with love and imagination. Here are examples of how you can arrange a place to store toys and other children's things:

• A rack with transparent plastic boxes will allow your child to sort the toys “by meaning”: there will be cubes in one drawer, pupae in the other, the third one is suitable for storing toy animals, etc. This is very convenient, because through the plastic you can see what lies in the box, and the kids will not be forced to search for the right toy for a long time;
• Houses, garages, castles, fortresses and other "buildings". Such structures immediately allocate the whole playing area in the room. They look very beautiful. And as a rule, children treat such things with care, because they love to play them;

• You can also separate the playing area, and at the same time equip a place for storing toys by setting up a “hostess corner” in the room with a stove and kitchen furniture, or put a car in the luggage compartment of which all the “treasures” will be located;
• If the area of ​​the room does not allow enough furniture to be placed in it, you can purchase such a wonderful thing as a bed with drawers for storage. As a rule, these boxes are located on the bottom, but can also be located on the sides;

• Rack- "honeycomb."An interesting option for open placement of books, toys, crafts and other necessary things;
• Bright soft padded stools with a cavity inside do not take up much space, while they are excellent places for storing everything you need. They can also be used for zoning rooms. The child will enjoy doing a “permutation” in the room, moving them from place to place;
• Racks with steps. Designed so that children can independently get things from the upper shelves.

In general, whatever you choose the structure for storing toys and children's things, remember - you choose it not for yourself, but for your child, and he should like it first of all and be comfortable for him.

Features of storage systems in children's rooms can be viewed in the next video.