Toy storage ideas – 16 ways to keep playtime neat

Toy storage solutions that are clever and forward-thinking are crucial to keep your home clean and your mind healthy. 

Having children in the house is a recipe for endless tidying, meaning storage ideas that are well thought through, effortlessly neat and easily accessible for both parent and child are crucial to a harmonious home. Your storage also needs to make organizing toys, and keeping them neat, is super easy not just for you, but for kids, too.

The need for toy storage isn’t just confined to the kids’ bedrooms either – living rooms, playrooms and even hallways are often in need of clever nooks and crannies to hide the playthings that inevitably make their way across the home.

From discreet benches to personalized trunks and wall storage cabinets, we’ve brought together some stylish but practical toy storage ideas to inspire you, and asked the experts for tips too, so that, whether you are looking for playroom ideas or solutions for children’s rooms, you will be well organized. 

By Allis Brennan. Contributions by Sophie Warren Smith