Getting Organized with Wayfair (sponsored)
Hi friends! I don’t know about you, but as January comes to a close and February arrives, my household to-do list kicks into full swing. The holiday decorations are taken down and stored for next year. It’s not quite time for starting seeds and springtime yard work. So household organization projects here I come. First up, the playroom!
To kick off the project, we removed all the odds and end furniture and bought this blue velvet couch from our friends at Wayfair. It’s the perfect place for reading books and playing beginner video games, Just Dance anyone? (I kinda love it too!) To keep the couch bright and kid-friendly I also scored a pair of sunny, yellow velvet throw pillows to add a touch of playfulness to the space. The pillows also come in handy with our daily pillow-fort-making-adventures.
I needed a way to organize and display books and little collectible toys and for that, I chose a pair of long white display shelving. I lined them with some of our current favorite books and some of our favorite toys. It was also fun to get the books off the ground and teach Max the idea of putting things back on the shelf as part of the clean-up-the-playroom habit.
Baskets, bins, and more baskets! As our little guy has grown out of baby blocks and more into massive collections of Legos and Matchbox Cars, coming up with an organizational system was super important for this new playroom set up. We selected a series of plastic bins with lids to hold the various collections and labeled them so he knew what goes where. This has helped both kid and mom figure out where things go at the end of the day.
Moms out there, how many times a week do you hear “can I have a snack?” I must admit it drives me a bit bananas…until now. I bought this adorable white metal and wooden basket that I have been filling with a few snacks, the always-missing “memote,” and a couple of toy treasures. Now instead of asking for daily snacks, he chooses something from the little basket playroom basket! It has become an independent, but a curated experience for him, and for me it is one less thing I have to think about regularly. Organized and easy, love when these two things come together.
A couple of other cool playroom refresh and organizational things I found at Wayfair were these metal and wood handle baskets. Pretty enough just for display but also functional for keeping mid-sized toys and games organized. To be honest, I also have a few of these baskets in my pantry and love their overall aesthetic of modern and clean.
Wayfair also sells one of my favorite affordable-luxury brands made by the design-duo of The Novogratz family. I had been looking at this bold, colorful rug for some time but couldn’t quite make it work in other parts of our house. While we do have light gray carpeting in the playroom, using this graphic rug near the new couch keeps the area grounded and separate from the other play areas. Plus, this rug makes a great Lego rug to use as a guide for designing towns, roads, and buildings!
For the final touches on making this refreshed and organized playroom extra special, Max and I worked together to create his ultimate gallery wall. I let him comb through my phone to find his favorite pictures of his friends. I typeset some of his little “Max-isms” as a way to capture them before he grows up and they go away ("Wook it!") and we also framed up some of his favorite color combinations to pull the room together. It was a labor of love but a fun project to do together. He is so proud and the photos make him so happy.
So hope you like this playroom update. Getting organized makes me feel like a super human…especially when I am battling hundreds of little Lego blocks and a gaggle of stuffed animals! Also, thanks to Wayfair for the fun collaboration, if you ever need some fresh organizational pieces for your home, check them out, they have so many options. ❤️