![]() ![]() ![]() It really is a challenge staying on top of cleaning, sorting through toys and moving them out (when new ones come in). I also run a home daycare so I'm sure you can imagine how many toys I have! I use large plastic toy bins with lids that fit right under my couch and I have to two large chairs where the seats lift up and you can store other things inside! One is used for diapers and the other is for wooden puzzles. So, I am always trying to keep as many things tucked away as possible. Our playroom is part of our living room, which should really be a dining room. It is very similar to mine, however you've taking the creativity up a notch! Decorating the big plastic ikea bins on your lower shelves was a great idea! I have red ones, but I use them up a little higher for items the kids have to ask for, like balls, blocks, babies and plastic animals. It could be a way to display souvenier seashells, pretty rocks, or even small toys from children’s fast-food meals.First off, I have to tell you how excited I was to see that I wasn't the only crazy one around who loved organizing! Secondly, I totally love your playroom. Sooner or later they’ll break a bone and have time to read while they heal.įor an inexpensive craft project, glue small things to the BOKIS bookends with a glue gun or glue meant for polystyrene. I’m going to hack up some old skis and glue the tips and bindings to some BOKIS bookends as gifts for my friends who ski. If you have friends with hobbies, get out your glue gun and create custom bookends for them from small items related to their hobby. You can use lightweight baskets or figurines because they aren’t supporting the weight of the books. If you prefer bookends that make a decorative statement, use a BOKIS bookend and then place a decorative object to hide the bookend. In the garage, to keep power saw blades and envelopes of sandpaper organized.In the bedroom, to keep the night-time reading from falling off the windowsill.In the sewing closet, to hold pattern envelopes upright.Oh dear, I think I need to tidy up the media room. In the so-called media room, keeping CDs, video tapes, and DVDs in some sort of order on the entertainment center, on the window sill, on the TV, on the DVD player, and on the bookshelves. ![]() One bookend on either side of the stack keeps the slippery things in one tidy pile. > to keep a pile of unread computer magazines from sliding off the desk. > to corral the circuit boards left over from computer rebuilding until we have enough of them to make yet another computer. > to organize drafting templates and drafting tool cases on the drafting table. > to prevent the software data CDs from falling off my roommate’s desk and onto the floor. > in the office bookcases to hold software manuals and programming textbooks. Of course I have a bookcase in the dining room. In the dining area bookcase, of course, to keep a huge collection of Science Fiction and music CDs tidy.Where can I possibly use that many? Let me wander around the house and tell you what they are doing for me … Even with college-age children taking some of the bookends to use in their dorms, that’s a lot of bookends. In the past year, I have bought at least five dozen BOKIS bookends from IKEA. ![]() The price at the retail stores … about fifty cents each. The translucent plastic is almost invisible when they are in use, so they blend with any dÃ?©cor. The wavy shape of the upright provides enough structural strength that the bookends can hold CDs, DVDs, paperbacks or mass-market hardback books upright. The minimalist design of translucent polystyrene is inconspicuous and sturdy. IKEA’s BOKIS bookends are exactly the width of a standard paperback book’s cover, slightly shorter than a CD jewel case, and only take up the shelf space of a CD or DVD case. With IKEA’s 340,000 square feet of furniture, cookware and home dÃ?©cor to shop in, why am I making my third trip to the Tempe, Arizona store just to buy another couple dozen of their BOKIS bookends? Because I want to make every inch of my shelf space count, and I can’t buy the bookends online, that’s why. ![]()
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