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[quote=Anonymous]We just bought a house that was expanded recently and has kind of an unusual setup. When you first walk in, there is a small room to your left and another one to your right. The one on the right is clearly an office and has doors that close it off. The one on the left leads to the kitchen.  It was staged as a formal dining room but really it is too small to fit more than a 4-6 person table.  Beyond the two small rooms is a large, mostly open family room and dining area. There's no formal living or dining room.

We have a great basement playroom, but our kids (3 and 1) are too little to play down there independently, so most of the time if I am cooking or doing anything on the main floor, they end up playing in our family room.  As a result, there are a bunch of toys cluttering up the family room.  It is a pretty large room though, so it's not awful.  We are thinking of making the left front room into another play/toy storage area.  It is open to the kitchen and visible from the family room, so I think they are likely to use it. We haven't had much in there since we moved in but would probably end up just furnishinh it as a small sitting room.  One day we'd love to expand the kitchen into it but that's years away.

The only thing I don't like about this plan is that the room is basically the first thing you see when you walk into the house. We are pretty strict about picking up toys so it wouldn't necessarily be messy, but it certainly wouldn't look elegant.  These kids already have an awesome playroom in the basement, plus toys in their bedrooms, and for some reason this just feels like overkill. DH and I always said we weren't going to be those people who let kid stuff take over their lives. On the other hand, this would get the kid stuff out of the family room, which we actually use, and into a room that has no other purpose.

What should we do?[/quote]

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