Kids Furniture - Furniture for Childrens Bedroom or Playroom

Are you trying to figure out how to set up a child’s playroom or buy playroom furniture? Looking for childrens bedroom furniture?  How about toy storage?  There are so many options out there in children’s furniture from beds to kids tables and childrens desks to all sorts of kid room furniture - it’s easy to become overwhelmed rather quickly. First, you should have an idea of what you main issues are, such as size of room, function of room, and function of the furniture that you will need in the room (book storage, toy storage, storage for stuffed animals, small toys, big toys...)

For a toddler, low and easy storage pieces and seating like bean bags make for good childrens chairs and playroom furniture pieces. For slightly older preschoolers, a nice size kids table and chairs for drawing and doing arts and crafts will be a great investment. For storage, take a look around and take note of what types of toys there are in your house, how many, and what size they are to help determine what the best toy storage solution would be for your needs. These guidelines ring true for both playrooms and for kids bedrooms; let’s face it, not everyone has enough space for a separate playroom, so often kids’ bedrooms are their playroom as well, and that’s just fine (one less area to have to worry about keeping clean and organized!)

Our house has a formal living room, as well as a family room. We do not entertain that much, and when we do there’s plenty of room in the kitchen, family room and dining room for guests, so we did not feel the need to use the formal living room as such, so it has become the playroom. We love having the nice, open, large area for our kids to enjoy, but it is adjacent to the formal dining room and the first room you see when you walk past the front foyer, so there is a need to constantly keep things neat and organized, which is hard with 3- and 5-year-olds who have not yet mastered the art of putting one toy away before moving on to another toy!

Some days I let it go, even though it ends up looking like a tornado passed through the playroom by the end of the day, but most of the time it takes about three minutes to put everything away, especially because there is a place for everything – from Barbies to books and Playmobil to Zhu-Zhu pets, everything has a “home” – I just wish I wasn’t the only one who knows where everything goes! Actually, the girls are learning quite well where things go, but my 3 year old just doesn’t quite “care” where things belong as much as I do (can you say anal-compulsive? Yes, I’m somewhat anal and slightly OCD – I like things to be where they belong, what’s wrong with that….a little off-topic here…)

When looking for a table and chairs set for little ones, make sure that you think about an area rug to go underneath it, unless you have carpet already, just in case the child falls off the chair (yes, it happens.) Please be sure to secure any heavy furniture pieces to the wall to avoid accidents.

When my first baby was 13 around months old and not yet walking, she pulled up on a small bookshelf which was empty and the only thing in the house not yet secured to the wall because it was new. The bookshelf, which had bins that stuck out fell on top of my daughter. I was sitting just a couple of feet away, but had turned away for a moment and was not able to catch it. It was horrifying and I hate reliving it by even mentioning it here, but she was okay – we did take her to the hospital because one of her bottom teeth got knocked back and we wanted to make sure everything else was okay and thank goodness she was fine and her tooth survived, too. This was a huge lesson learned for me and I pass it on in hopes that no one else will make the mistake I did – when you buy a piece of furniture, get a safety strap at the same time, and USE IT!

If you want to get an open bookshelf for storage, consider getting baskets that fit on the shelves for smaller toys and organize them by what they are, such as Barbies, cars, animals, doll clothes – make a tag to attach to the outside with a drawing or picture on it of what goes inside so your child can know where to find certain toys AND where to put them away when done playing.

It’s a good idea to find a place to store crayons and other drawing accoutrements, as well as paper and coloring books – somewhere that the kids can access themselves, so it’s easy for them to sit and quietly draw whenever they feel like it. You, then, can sit back and relax while they bring you 343 drawings a day and it’s all you can do not to scream “no more!!!” But if you’re in need of a way to keep and display your child’s “art” nicely, check out the DaVinci Art Frames – love them!

Well, if you’ve been looking to the right at all, I’m sure your eyes have spotted some great kids’ furniture products to help you decorate and organize your child’s room easily. Hope this helps!