This may be the best and most perfect storage ever. As the owner of a child with a pathological hatred of tidying his room, this may finally be the solution. Remember those toys with pins in that you push through to make hand and face shapes? Well this is the same principle applied to storage.
Basically you just push the books, toys, general plastic tat and uncategorised stuff against the pins and a natural storage hole is formed.
The key to storage when faced with a reluctant tidier (and believe me mine takes reluctance to new extremes; he would rather spend three hours in his room refusing to pick up a single thing than come out eat cake, watch telly and play games. He is BEYOND principled about these things) is that it must be easy.
Over the years we have tried open storage boxes so that things can just be hurled in from across the room, open shelves so that stuff can just be piled onto them, hanging bars on the wall with pots attached so that bits and pieces can be thrown in (he’ll make a great dart player one day. Actually scrub that – I will make a great darts player) and none of it has worked.
Once in a fury, I sent him to pick up all his clothes from the floor. I wish I still had the picture to show you but basically the drawers were all half open with everything suspended from them and spilling over the edges. The floor was, however, clear, as he pointed out to me. With a beaming smile. Honestly, when confronted with this child of mine I often turn into the eye twitching Inspector Dreyfus when he sees The Pink Panther. And don’t get me started on foods he will eat…Or should I say won’t…
Anyway, this, despite the hefty £2,100 price tag, is my dream solution. There is a smaller one too for £750 that’s like a wall box but not really big enough for our purposes here. It’s made in Spain and the standalone measures 100x47x105 and the smaller one is 50x35x50.
If you’re interested then the link is here and if you like this then you might love this chair:
It’s called the Gval and see those bits in the middle? Well they lift out to become this:
So much clever design about. What do you think? These are from the oomydesignstudio.
LOVE the chair! Brilliant design and gorgeous wood!
I never had to deal with a messy child (mine would stay up all night unpacking when we moved into a new place because she couldn’t sleep with boxes in her room) but my granddaughter could give your son a run for his money. Did you manage not to laugh when he was so proud of himself for cleverly getting his clothes off the floor?
I managed to snort to his face and pretend I was sneezing till I left the room! My other son is Mr Tidy. Sometimes I wish they were a bit half and half but …. they aren’t!
Hi Kate. My fear is that this would become like a giant game of jenga or kerplunk with rods being pushed through to see how many it takes for all the tidying to come crashing down. I have to say that that’s what I would do with it!
Yes, you may be right. It’s a cool idea though. I think it could work for my son but only if he hadn’t read your comment – that wouldn’t have occurred to me until you said it….