Family B - Basement Play Space
This is a typical basement where children are suppose to
play but nothing has been really organized so what starts
to happen is more and more toys start to creep upstairs into
family rooms, bedrooms, kitchens … anywhere but downstairs.
Why? Who can find anything? It's dangerous because toys are
everywhere so once the children start running around, someone
is going to step on something, (and you also now have a broken
toy). Would you want to play there?
Clean up time only comes after we can't walk anywhere and
then things just get thrust into unorganized, large toy boxes
where everything has to get pulled out to find it the next
day.
Kids don't really want to play in the basement anyways, so
if this is assigned kid space where you want the majority
of toys to be, let's make it fun, organized for quick clean
up (that the kids can actually do) with zone play areas. Think
of a preschool or day care, there is a ' house' section with
dolls and kitchens, a puzzles and games section, drama and
puppet area and art zones. This can be done easily in your
own home. Easy systems for clean up are critical to make it
work, (think preschool again) and you won't have to yell at
your kids (okay, not as much) about picking up their toys
at the end of the day.
This is a classic children's space that needs some play zones
and quick clean up solutions that make an end of the day tidy
up easy. We are all tired at bedtime and if clean up takes
longer than ten minutes, it's not working.
The following basement took 7 hours on site with just a little
sorting assistance from the client, (less than two hours).
Materials cost $190 for a total job cost of $566.
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