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[quote=Anonymous]Our room is almost exactly like yours. We have a five year old and two year old. We have our couch floating in the middle of the room, facing the fireplace. The TV/media center is in the corner to the right of the fireplace, at an angle. There is a wing back chair and ottoman against the 9 o'clock wall and a club chair against the 3 o'clock wall. There is a tall bookshelf with paned glass doors to the left of the fireplace. There is an oriental rug in the middle of this space. All thi, with some occasional tables and a coffee table, makes one area in the back half of the room, if you are standing in the kitchen.

Then, there is a wooden play table against the back of the couch, kind of like a sofa table. On the 3 o'clock wall, there are ikea kids storage units. Troflegar or something (I forget the name, basically white frames with different sizes of multi-colored bins). There's also a play kitchen there. We have a half wall cutting the entry to the kitchen to about 10 feet. There is another storage unit  against that wall.  There is a neutral tan/cream Berber area rug anchoring this area and by the sliding glass door, there is a bin for shoes and a bin for balls and outdoor toys.

When we first moved in, we tried it as one big area, but it really didn't work for us. Even if you don't want to do a play area, I think you need to break the space into two areas.

For us, the kids really like having a dedicated play space with a big open area in the middle, I like that I can see them from the kitchen, and I like that after they go to bed, we can sit on the couch and not see the toys and other kid stuff behind us. From the couch, it's a grown-up room.

I figure we'll keep the play area for several years, and when they get older and don't need a play area, it will become something else. Maybe home office/homework area, or reading, or craft, or whatever. Or maybe one big room, by then.

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