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Home ยป Blog ยป Family Room Organization

Jan 22, 2013

Family Room Organization

It can be a challenge to get family rooms and playrooms organized.

Our living room is our family room, and most of the time our playroom too, since my kids don't like going downstairs to the basement without my husband or I, and they seem to prefer dragging their toys out to the living room instead of playing in their bedrooms.
Family Room Organization, Joyful Homemaking

Basement play area

Family Room Organization, Joyful Homemaking

Bedroom toy organization

Family Room Organization, Joyful Homemaking

The living room coffee table is still their favorite place to bring their toys and play.

Family Room Organization, Joyful Homemaking
See what I mean?

So I use whatever furniture I can that has some closed storage to try and help reduce some of the inevitable visual clutter.

Family Room Organization, Joyful Homemaking

I had my husband make an extra shelf in this yard sale piece to contain our dvds.

Family Room Organization, Joyful Homemaking

The movies can be easily put away and are out of site when we want them to be.

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Baskets are great for tucking things in and yet look nice in a room. We used to use these for home-school items, but now they contain magazines and library books.

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We always have a big basket of coloring books and lots of crayons in the living room.

Family Room Organization, Joyful Homemaking

I love my little chest that hides paperwork, computer paper and envelopes.

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This decorative desk hides hanging file folders, webkinz passwords, art supplies...

Family Room Organization, Joyful Homemaking

These bins contain office supplies, camera accessories, school papers and cd's. My "picture" boxes hold various things like crayons and 3D glasses (for our movies)...

Even with all my attempts at corralling things, our living room usually looks pretty lived in, and you know what, that's ok. I want to treasure my time with my kids, and not fuss at them all the time to pick up their toys. There must be a good balance somewhere, and I hope to find it some time before they're grown!

Blessings,
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  1. Stevie says

    January 23, 2013 at 1:46 am

    Awesome! I have to admit in our livingroom we got a coffee table to put games underneath. I've loved it so that when we picked out furniture for the family room my must was a coffee table with shelf underneath. :0)

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  2. Melissa says

    January 23, 2013 at 2:28 pm

    Love all of your organization ideas! You gave me some good inspiration for some projects that I need to do in my bookshelf area in my Living room.

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  3. The HOME GIRL says

    January 23, 2013 at 4:47 pm

    You have some really great organization ideas here! Thanks for sharing this post! =)

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  4. Julia Kendrick says

    January 24, 2013 at 4:15 pm

    I love organization ideas! Thanks! Pinned! Julia @ http://www.juliakendrick.com

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  5. Rosario says

    January 25, 2013 at 2:59 pm

    Love it, its beautiful!

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  6. hsmominmo says

    January 26, 2013 at 4:13 am

    Very nice. Great ideas on how to hide away clutter and how to gather and contain 'like items'.

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  7. Andrea says

    January 26, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    Just lovely and soo organized!!

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  8. Cranberry Morning says

    January 27, 2013 at 3:43 am

    Beautiful. I love organization. Especially fun looking at someone else doing it well.

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  9. Tutus & Tea Parties says

    January 27, 2013 at 5:05 am

    Looks great! My daughter loves the coffee table for play too. Thank you for sharing at our Pinteresting Party!

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  10. Mel@Mellywood's Mansion says

    January 28, 2013 at 5:41 am

    Oh toys, I feel like my house will always be full of them! I love the basket idea I need storage so badly!

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  11. Angie Church says

    January 28, 2013 at 10:10 pm

    looks like you did an awesome job

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  12. TC Harris says

    January 29, 2013 at 3:15 pm

    That looks great! Good Job!

    My tackle is up for this week: http://tc-twistedfairytale.blogspot.ca/2013/01/tackle-it-tuesday.html

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  13. Heather@ourcultivatedlife says

    January 29, 2013 at 8:39 pm

    Everything looks great! I love a well organized space. Well done:)

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  14. Jamie -Better With Age says

    January 30, 2013 at 3:04 am

    Good organized spaces! Looks great ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  15. Steven Smith @ professional organizer NYC says

    March 19, 2013 at 3:31 am

    Love the way the entire interior of the house has been organized, its real inspiring to get such pretty ideas of organizing each and every nook and corner of your room in a very diligent and simpler ways, thanks for posting this out. Professional organizing services

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  16. Anna says

    March 26, 2013 at 10:36 am

    Thank you very much for your blog! I started reading it yesterday and you inspired me to start organizing my drawers. I cleaned up my medicine cabinet and surprisingly everything fit into one shoe box, leaving me with space for other things. I finally cleaned out one of my kitchen drawers. And can't wait to do more ๐Ÿ™‚ I will be getting one of those shoe organizers to store little things. Thank you for all your great ideas! We have a very small house with almost no storage/closet space, so I am really happy to find out how others organize their spaces.

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