Where do you put things? For example, where do you store your coats and shoes? Where do you put your vacuum and brooms? Where is the pram, cot, toys and pushchair stored, and the playpen?
When people come to stay, where do they sleep? And where do you dry your clothes? Which place in the house do you eat?Who lives in a small, two bed house with a kid/kids?
well we don't live in a 2 bedroom but we do have a small house with 3 bedrooms and have had to get creative to make space. My husband built a playroom in the basement so that was a huge help. We don't use dressers for clothes, instead we bought at Home Depot those closet organizers, one side has like 5 drawers and 3 shelves and the other side has two poles for hanging clothes. These are a huge space saver in the bedrooms.
My husband built shelves in our closet too. I use the Walmart Drawer carts that have 3 drawers in the closet too for more clothes. The kids keep some shoes in their closet and I also keep a shoe basket by the front door for them to put them in.
I use under the bed storage bins to store clothes they are waiting to grow into. I put up hooks behind the bedrooms door in te kids room where they hang their coats and we also hang some in the hall closet.
we used bunk beds for awhile when they were younger and had a lot of toys. Now that they are older they have regular beds. We have 4 kids so we do two kids per bedroom.
We bought a sofa bed for the playroom so when the kids have a friend over or we have company they can sleep on that plus the kids use it as a couch when playing video games in the playroom.
I keep the vacuum in the corner of the playroom by the washer and dryer which is also inside the playroom.
We have an attic so we store Christmas decorations, and all kinds of stuff up there.
We also have a basment/garage so we keep sleds, bikes and stuff down there.Who lives in a small, two bed house with a kid/kids?
I have a two bedroom home and one child.
I am lucky enough to have 2 small closets. One for coats and I have a hanging shoe rack in there. Since I hang the shoes, I am able to also keep my broom and the stroller (pram) in there folded up. The other closet I use for my vacuum and have placed shelves in for an extra pantry.
I no longer use a high chair, but when I did, it was stuck in a back corner of the dining room. Toys are in her room. I have bought a lot of decorative containers, wicker baskets and things like that, then placed them on shelving to hid the clutter. I also have a small wooden trunk in my living room, it works as a coffee table and a toy storage.
Very few people stay at my home due to lack of room, but if someone were to stay, they would stay in the twin bed in my daughters room while she slept with me.
Small homes and children require creativity when it comes to storing things, but it is possible.
I live in a one bedroom flat and I have a 5 month old baby.
To answer your questions in order
Coats - a coathook on the wall by the front door
Shoes - under the bed
Vacuum - lives in the hallway (its a big hallway and a compact vacuum)
Broom etc - hallway cupboard
Pram base - hallway behind the front door
Crib - in our room
playpen - don't have one
toys - toy basket in the living room
We don't have overnight guests
We dry our clothes on the radiators/ on airers next to the radiators
we eat in the living room as it also has a dining table in it.
When I was 25 I lived in a two bedroom flat with twin babies until they were 1. It was hard but you just have to keep everything tidy and in order, and only have the bare minimum - no 'junk'.
I had hooks when you went in the door for coats, and a little stand for shoes. The vacuum and brooms were shoved in the corner of the kitchen, under some hooks with aprons (not nice!)
The double pram was kept in the sittingroom (no room in the narrow hall). The cots were in the nursery, with the changing table pushed between them. The toys were in a toybox on the floor at the end of one of the cots, and we didn't havea a playpen!
We didn't have people to stay, apart from my dad once, and my husband's mother - they slept (at different times!) on the sofa in the sitting room. We dried our clothes on the little balcony and we ate on the three-seater breakfast table.
I guess we were lucky to move out before the kids hit toddler age, but it was hard with only four tiny tiny rooms (not including the toilet!)
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The first home we owned was a small 2 bedroom house. I can't remember exact square footage, but it was small, around 800 square feet, I think. Before we left that home, our oldest 3 children were born. Our home had a living area, dining area, kitchen, small bathroom, 2 bedrooms, and a utility room that held our furnace, water heater, washing machine and dryer. No basement or attic, but there was a detached 1 car garage. Each bedroom did have a closet, so our coats and shoes went there. The broom and the vacuum were stored in the utility room. We had bunk beds, a crib, a dresser and a shelf for toys in the kids' bedroom. Where we live we call the pram a buggy and the pushchair a stroller. We never had both at the same time, only one or the other. Usually we kept the buggy or the stroller in our vehicle. In the trunk when we owned a car and in the back when we owned a van. Our playpen folded up small and was in the kids' closet when not in use, but usually it was open in the living room. Our couch was a hide-a-bed, but we rarely had people over to sleep, but when we did we moved the furniture around and pulled out the hide-a-bed. We had a dryer in our utility room, but I also had a clothes line in our back yard plus used a wooden dryer rack. We had a dining area with a small table and chairs that we ate at. It was cozy, but we made it work. When we were going to sell that little house and move to a bigger one, we boxed up about 35 boxes of things to store at my parents' home so when the house was on the market it didn't look so packed. For us, the key was making sure everything had a place and everything was in it's place. With 5 people in a small house, it didn't take too many things out of place before it looked pretty bad.
I live in a 2 bed flat with myself, my son and my husband. I am not kidding when i say there is NO storage space. My pram is stored in the hallway, toys are stored in stacked plastic boxes in my sons room, playpen is in the sitting room. I store my sons nappies under his bed as i tend to buy in bulk. Also, the tops of wardrobes have boxes of things stored on top of them (eg - bedding, towels, shoes).
When people come to stay they sleep in the living room on an airbed.
We eat in the sitting room as we have no dining room and dry most of our clothes either on indoor areas in bad weather, on the rotary dryer outside in good weather or at the laundrette.
Our flat is very cluttered as there is no storage space and the only clear room is the living room. All the others have thing stored in boxes in them.
Me, 4 kids 2 bedrooms! LOL though to be fair the rooms are all pretty big, except the bathroom!
Okay 2 girls in one room, all their stuff in with them, 2 boys in one room, all their stuff in with them, I have a 6ft wardrobe in my boys room, LOADS of space in it, and all my stuff goes in there, both bedrooms have built in cupboards, these are full of coats, shoes etc, I have a huge cupboard in the hall with a dryer and my buggy that I use in it, and I have 2 large sheds outside full of other prams and everything else!
My daughters have a futon in their room for when friends stay, which is usually every couple of weeks, I also have 2 dogs a cat and 2 hamsters, the hamsters are in the girls room! lol
We eat at the table in the kitchen, or in the living room, I have an aeobed which is the size of a kingsize bed, both in width and height, I sleep in this in the living room, 2mins inflate, 2mins deflate, great!
I live in a small 2 bedroom house with a toddler and baby and really need more space!
I keep my coats, shoes and pram in the porch. I also have a buggy which I have to leave in the boot of the car as I can't find any where for it in the house.
My understairs cupboard is full to busting with toys and vacuum etc as the kids bedroom is to small to store any toys in they are all downstairs. The bedroom has a bed, cot and a wardrobe and there isn't room to swing a cat...literally!
I have to dry my clothes in the living room which drives me mad...I try not to wash if I can't get it outside but sometimes needs must. We eat our tea on our knees in the living room which isn't ideal with kids (lots of mess grrrr!) Gonna try put a breakfast bar up somewhere as it won't take as much room as a table but I would love a proper table to eat at.
I don't have people to stay as there is simply no room...the only option would be a tent in the garden lol
Well I brought up four boys in a two-bedroomed house and the answer is *organisation* - shelves and hooks in all of the cupboard spaces and I kept their clothes and so on in my bedroom with my own (organised!) and had bunk beds for them once they got to be older.
The cupboard under the stairs was useful too for shoes,the ironing board and so on but that need to be kept tidy too and they were expected to help maintain that neatness themselves too.
Basically, you just make do with what you've got, and try to find room for things. I lived in a studio flat, which was one small room (about 3 1/2 x 4m) with my son and his dad until my son was 1. We lived and slept in the same room and just put up with his cot and his pram being there.
We then thought we had loads of room when we moved into a one bedroom flat lol. It was really small, but we had a separate living room and bedroom.
If people wanted to stay, they could sleep on the couch. The cot was in our bedroom, and the toys, hoover etc were put in a cupboard. I never had a playpen, there was never any room for it, and since my son decided to start walking early, and be running around at 9 months, it would have been a waste of money.
In my studio flat we ate in the same room that we lived in and slept in. In the one bedroom flat, we ate in the living room as the kitchen was just over 2m x 1m.
I live in a small 2 bed house, with my partner and 3 children!
Child number one is male and 13 yrs old - and has the luxury of a room to himself!
Child number 2 is female and 3 yrs old - and has to share with mummy, daddy and new baby brother who's 4 months old!!
COSY is the word we'd use! lol
and the answer to all those questions is everywhere!!! clothes are everywhere, same with toys and pushchairs...lol
ive become a huge fan of over the door hooks - wonderful!
coats are hung by front door, over small shoe rack, vacuum is also out on display by the front door. the pushchair is often floating around the middle of the living room. people dont come to stay at our house is manic and most people cant wait to get out!! haha
clothes are dried on the washing line in good weather, otherwise over radiators or doors on driers!
we eat in the living room on a small table tucked in the corner beyond the pushchair, or in the kitchen on the breakfast bar!
every space has its purpose, even the gap down the side of the fridge is used to keep the ironing board - while the pile of ironing is kept in the bedroom!!!!
we have a half size airing cupboard - NIGHTMARE! and also only one built in cupboard under the stairs which is used for storing the pushchair when rarely folded down and various other items!
my bed has a cunningly sly draw underneath it where ALL my clothes are kept!! the kids have the luxury of the use of the 3 cupboard wardrobe!
I live in a decent sized 2 bed ground floor flat with my boyfriend and daughter.
Coats go on the coat rack in the hallway. Whichever shoes we're wearing get left there too.
The vacuum lives in my bedroom. The brooms in the kitchen.
The pushchair stays next to the front door, my daughter now sleeps in a bed but I still have her cot and it's stored in the cupboard under the stairs. I have most of the toys in the living room and some in my daughter's bedroom. She had a playpen - which she hated - so I sold it but it was in the living room.
People don't stay at our flat cos there's just not room. Clothes are dried outside if it's a nice day, inside in front of the heaters if it's horrible. My daughter and I eat lunch in the living room and the 3 of us - or however many there is for dinner - eat up to the dining table in the kitchen.
My daughter and I have a small 2 bedroom place.
Coats %26amp; shoes go in closets (We're in Southern CA we don't have too many cold weather items)
I have a walk in closet- Vacuum, broom, mop go in there
The stroller is in the trunk of my car
She outgrew her playpen, na
Toys are on the book shelve in the living room and in a tub in her room
If people stay over I have a couch that converts to a bed
We dry clothes in the dryer
We eat in the dining area off the kitchen
I have a 8 month old and a 28 motnh old. i am engaged to their father, we live in a 2/3 bedroom duplex. The kids rooms are connected with no door betweent hem its weird but there no exit out of the second room except through the first! we tend to eat in the living room since our kitchen is so small the kids at the table. the coats are usually on the back of the chairs, shoes next to the fridge(which is right by my door) brooms etc are in the kitchen next to the stove, its hard though! we dont have many guests but i guess they would sleep in the living room?
i live in a very small 2 bedroom flat with myself and 2 kids
coats n shoes go in ur bedrooms
hoover stays in hallway
toys all over the house
when ppl come to stay they sleep on settee or a double air bed
i dry my clothes in tumble dryer (rarely used) or on clothes horse which is in living room infront of heater
and we eat in the living room
as for storage i only have 1 cupboard to store anything in and a lot of stuff i have to either give away or bin because no where to store anything
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