Storage-Rack

Children's Room

Clothes

• Choose chests with sturdy drawers, fitted with stops to prevent accidental tipping out. Partitions are essential in large and deep drawers, providing separate storage for small items such as socks and pants.
• Units with separate hanging space might encourage early tidy habits, but make sure there is also ample drawer, shelf and cupboard space. Individual wall pegs, fixed at suitable heights, should tempt small children to hang clothes rather than discarding on the floor.
• Try to provide a large hamper, or low cupboard, specifically for much-loved dressing-up clothes.

Toys

• Shelving which should be firmly fixed to the wall is ideal for books, boxes and most toys. Use adjustable shelf dividers. Corner units make excellent use of space. Good ideas can be picked up from day-nurseries and pre-school classrooms. Hampers, baskets and trunks with hinged lids provided these have safety features are also useful.
• Wall hangings, with small pockets are particularly good for keeping little things. If children are sharing a room, it helps to provide individual hangings showing each child's name.
• A three-point mesh hammock, hung across a corner, is excellent for storing and displaying vast quantities of cuddly toys.