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[Drama Llama]

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Edited May 8, 2021 by BaseballandHockey

[Shoeless]

Bed, dresser, laundry hamper, several bookcases full of books, and kiddo's toys. We have some shelves with bins to hold some of the smaller things, like little Minecraft mini figs. There's no elaborate organizational system. Stuff gets purged when he hasn't touched it in a long time. 

[Melissa Louise]

Bed, computer desk and chair, sofa, open hanging wardrobe, shelves, chest of drawers, bedside table. 

And a big anarchist flag, cos 17. 

🙂

That (minus the sofa, and subbing shelving for bookcases) is what my girls had growing up also, though their wardrobe had doors. 

[Melissa Louise]

Oh, I forgot the laundry hamper. Useful for once a week gathering up the things on the floor and transporting to the laundry 🙂

[Drama Llama]

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Edited May 8, 2021 by BaseballandHockey

[Melissa Louise]

4 minutes ago, BaseballandHockey said:

I was thinking more of what’s on the shelves and in the wardrobe? 

Shelves = CD's, record stuff, fancy shoes. In the past shelves stored Lego and Pokemon stuff. 

Wardrobe = hats, belts, bags, masks and jackets hanging from the single  rail. 

 

[Melissa Louise]

I forgot, they also have/had things kept in boxes/space saver storage bags under the bed. Stuff (out of season clothes, treasures, shoes, completed art folios, craft supplies etc).

The girls also used to have a tote under each desk with their homeschool stuff stored in there. 

Trinkets went on top of their bookcases or on their desks.

Girls had all their clothes hanging on rails in the wardrobe.

 

[JustEm]

twin size bunk beds, one tall dresser and closet space for clothing, a nightstand for books and notebooks, and a few special possessions (guitar, legos, stuffed animals, etc.  There rooms really are for sleeping and retreating to for time to themselves.

[Ausmumof3]

My kids get to decide.  They all have some toys clothes, a bookshelf full of books.  The one rule is if they want something kept they get to store it in their room I won’t have it all over.   The youngest room is an absolute bomb.  The older two went through stages but have improved a lot.

[Katy]

My youngest two have almost nothing. A handful of books and stuffed animals. A few cars to play with during quiet time. Even their clothes are in bins in the hall linen closet because they’ve both been experimenting with dumping clothes.   Their toys are in bins in the living room. When I let them have more than they could handle they just got destructive. 
 

Older kids can have whatever they want, but everything must have a place to be put away nicely. Not on the floor. 
 

Unless someone is sick they may not have food or drinks in their rooms. 
 

In our last home there was a family room & living room close to each other. Toys were in the family room, the living room was always clean. We also had one house with a playroom off of the kitchen. It could be destroyed with toys & never got in the way. 

[alisoncooks]

Once mine hit late-elementary, I stopped purging their rooms, and I handed off "ownership." Their rooms are full of stuff; fuller than I like. Books, papers, toys, clothes, art supplies, cosplay items, games. I don't touch it. I do encourage periodic tidying (not always successful). 

[historically accurate]

I have a kid at college, so for the most part, her stuff is stored in a closet since youngest has taken her room. My two youngest kids shared previously. We've never had a playroom so almost all toys were stored in bedrooms. Only toys that "lived" in living room were dollhouses. 

Middle's room (used to be shared): 2 beds, American girl dolls hung on hooks on walls & clothes/accessories under the bed in bins. 2 Ikea trofast things with buckets - one is dedicated to LEGO's, one has stuff (AG stuff in one, journals, notebooks, etc in another, small stuffed animals in another, craft supplies in rest). Trophies are on a shelf with pegs underneath over each bed. Doll bunk bed has stuffed animals. Used to have a dress up corner with command hooks and a full length mirror. It's still there, but as she's a teen now, the hooks have hats and necklaces and scarves. Closet (large) has hung up clothes, dresser, and shelving for her medical textbooks that she likes to read.

Youngest's room (used to be oldest's): trundle bed, 2 dressers (smaller dresser has oldest's yarn supply), book shelf stuffed with oldest's books (youngest has about 1 shelf on it with books and artwork she's done), telescope, bedside table with a moon lamp & figurines. The room has a space collage on one wall and an animal collage on another (pictures/postcards/homemade artwork displayed together). Trophies displayed on similar shelf as other bedroom. Stuffed animals kept on bed. AG camper at end of bed. Origami cranes hung from ceiling (512 of them as she told me the other day). Closet (same size as other) has a hope chest stored for my mother, oldest's half built dollhouse, oldest's stuff on upper shelf, hung up clothes, and full length mirror. 

Edited February 27, 2021 by historically accurate

[medawyn]

Two boys in one room, two girls in another:

Closets: underwear (10 pair per kid, except the potty training toddler, who has about 1,000 pairs); 10 outfits + 5 pairs of pajamas per kid; socks and shoes go downstairs in drawers by the backdoor.  One bin in each closet (up high) with out of season clothes that I think will fit the next year.

Small bedside table between the twin beds in each room - big enough to hold their OK to Wake clocks and their sound machines and water bottles

An 6 cube organizer from Target with 6 fabric bins: each kid has their own "special bin".  I clean these out about 4 times a year; they keep special treasures in them.  One bin in each room holds stuffies; the girls' have a baby doll bin and a tutu bin; the boys have a lego bin and an army guy bin.

All other toys are in the playroom, which sometimes looks like an Instagram pic but usually looks like a tornado blows through.  When I'm committed, 15 minutes of picking up everyday keeps the playroom mostly tidy; when I'm lazy or overwhelmed, it takes about an hour to put everything back to rights once a week.

[Not_a_Number]

My kids currently share a room, but we also have a playroom. (Well, currently we're away from our apartment and will be for the next few months. But I'm talking about the apartment.)

Their room contains their bunk bed, their clothes, and a Kallax cube displaying various things they've made. The toys are stored in the playroom. Do you want to know what's in the playroom? Because that's the one that has lots of things in it. 

[Kebo]

Books, musical instruments, art supplies, favorite toys (even if outgrown), pocket pets with cage, sentimental items

[cjzimmer1]

Different kids have had different things depending on current rooming partner and their life stage.

But as of today

12 and 14 year girls share room: in addition to beds/dressers in every room, they have 2 book shelves full of their personal book collection and an inflatable chair under the loft portion of one of the beds for a reading nook. One DD has the entire top of her dresser covered in Lego sets that she plays with at a level where her younger brother can't access them.  Under the bed that sits on the floor is a large storage tub that holds the backup set of sheets/mattress pads for both beds in that room. In the closet they have their hanging clothes and the shelf above it has a box of mementos I'm saving for them.  A few clothes from their older sister that they haven't grown into. A couple of personal sleeping bags and I think one more box of my stuff.

20 and 8 year old boy share a room: in addition to the basics, there is a free standing storage cabinet.  I keep all the extra bedding supplies for the household in there (extra pillows,  sheets, pillow cases, blankets, sleeping bags).  There is also a low lying cabinet that DS8 keeps his lego collection in. Under his bed he also has a tub with the duplo train collection. Side shelves in closet are games that no one is terribly attached to and thus free for 8 year to play with as he wishes (he's not very careful with things so the older kids won't let him touch their expensive European board games). Top shelf is mementos, a box of my stuff, and DS20 collection of drones.

DD17 shares her bedroom with the toy room.  So one half of the room is done up with cubbies full of toys with a nice play surface on top, plus a small cabinet where all the lego instructions are stored. A small bookcase of her favorite books, a coffee table for additional lego building. Under her bed is stored extra bedding for her bed plus a bunch of her personal stuff.  Closet has old computer/electronic stuff on side shelves, puzzles on the top shelf.

DD23 room is awful.  On a good day I can open the door of the room.  dresser and ledge around the room are packed with built lego sets.  Large free standing cabinet is covered with lego sets on top.  I think games (or maybe more lego sets) are inside but I can't remember it's been so long since I've seen it open.  He has a bunk bed.  The upper bed is at least 6 inches deep of lego boxes (because serious lego collectors can't ever get rid of boxes or so I've been told), lots of clothes (I don't know if their storage places are full or he just can't get to them).  Closet is packed full of European games (think Dominion and every one of the 14 or so expansions that have been made, times about 50 different games and every expansion they have)  on the shelves and storage shelves/racks on the floor.  There is more lego storage out in the room.  He's the only kid who also has a hamper in their room. While I love having him living at home,  I will be very happy when he moves out and takes his mess with him.

Edited February 27, 2021 by cjzimmer1

[SanDiegoMom]

I have three kids (one away at college). They are all so different in their rooms.  My son has very little -- it's easy to take care of but he doesn't really bother. Thankfully since he has so little it doesn't get messy.  Computer, desk, bed, empty storage baskets in a Kallax type cube, bookshelf, dresser in closet, and a few things that do need to be purged (old costumes, a few old toys) and a shelf at the top of the ceiling for all his lego architecture sets.

His twin has little treasures EVERYWHERE and her closet is crammed full.  It's all reasonably organized and she cleans regularly on her own because she likes to keep it neat.

My oldest was undiagnosed Adhd until 18.  Her room was a disaster. Like, Hazmat suit disaster.  Food wrappers and bowls and spoons under bed, clothes in piles, stuff constantly being broken.  She'd wear her clothes dirty or wash them but leave them in the washer for days and they would still smell.  In the last few years she has done all the hard work herself of bringing her life and her room into order.  She still crams everything out of sight in a mess rather than purging stuff, but the things she leaves out are the very basic things she needs.  She knows that she can't find anything when it's messy so she cleans every day.  Her clothes are always clean and her sheets are always washed.  

[Selkie]

No idea! My kids are 18, 20, and 22 and I never go in their rooms. Their rooms, their responsibility. That's one of the benefits of having older kids.🙂

[Dmmetler]

Bed, wardrobe, bookshelf, snake, and lots of stuffed animals. Hasn’t changed really since the snake moved in at age 9.   When toys were a thing, they were out in the dining room. 

[smfmommy]

I can't handle lots of things in the common areas.  So my kids have all their stuff in their rooms.  Each have shelves to hold books and toys and art/craft materials.  We declutter often and take lots of photos of art/papers/etc so as to keep that stuff to a minimum.  Although each have a drawer or box for that sort of thing.  Some of the kids are more receptive to my assistance in keeping their rooms tidy, but I require a basic level of cleanliness so as to not encourage rodents.

 

[MEmama]

Bed, dresser, laundry basket, 3 bookcases (stuffed), computer desk with laptop and gaming chair.

On the walls: world map, table of elements, pennant to university he recently committed to, bulletin board, Bernie Sanders lawn sign, shelves with athletic trophies, varsity running poster.

In closet: idk. He has to purge it this summer— misc old toys, books, outgrown clothes. It’s a disaster.

[Spryte]

Teen:  Under loft bed - bookshelves, papasan chair, light, nerdy stuff.  Everywhere else - dresser, desk with art supplies and good lighting,  hamper.  Lots of steampunk things, some hanging.  Walls are covered in framed posters and signed prints from cosplayers, shows.  One giant treehouse print on wall behind desk. Closet has clothes, old outgrown toys with sentimental value, extra blankets, cosplay outfits.

DD: oh boy.  Too much stuff.  Day bed with drawers filled with stuffies. Bean bag filled with stuffies.  Stuffies on bed.  (Seeing a theme?) Desk and art supplies.  Bookshelves.  Large wardrobe converted to AG dollhouse.  Various doll things in floor nearby (camper, jeep, ice cream truck type things).  Expedit unit with bins of doll things.  Shelves of Breyer horses.  The closet is a no man’s land with clothes and who knows what else.  If we keep it closed, I don’t have to look at it!  ...and on that note, maybe that’s the weekend project here.  DD’s closet.  If I never post again, you’ll know why.

[SKL]

The temptation to photograph my youngest's room and post it is strong.  But I won't, for the sake of your eyes and her dignity.

My youngest (14) is a person who likes stuff and dislikes neatness.  She will actually spread a few piles of stuff around her room if it feels too clean.  Needless to say, it never stays neat for long, and there is often a pile of crap behind her bed that is over a foot deep.

What's in youngest's room?

• Furniture:  bed with drawers underneath; desk with one drawer [and chair]; many bookshelves; dresser; large wardrobe; many other shelves and bins for various stuff; beanbag chair.
• Decorations:  many K-Pop posters, horse show ribbons, Breyer horses.
• Stuff in the shelves / bins / where it should be:  all of her clothes (4 seasons) including outgrown stuff (we'll get those out someday); hundreds of books and CD albums; all manner of art and craft supplies; jewelry and other small gifts; CD player, computer, chromebook, ipad, iphone, and their accessories; probably 100 stuffed animals; every blanket she ever owned; old school, camp, and travel memorabilia; musical instruments, stand, and sheet music; a few toys she hasn't been willing to give up.
• All over the floor / desk / dresser:  dirty clothes, bath towel, snack wrappers / empty containers, school papers / school supplies, books, photographs, crafts in process, blankets, various bins, recently received gifts, and a variety of random items mixed in.

Yes, I do tell her to clean up very often!

My eldest (also 14) is very different.  She does NOT like a lot of stuff.  But she also has a hard time cleaning (OCD related, I think).  So until I get time to go in there and clear stuff, it stays in one place forever.  That includes bags of Christmas gifts and a pile of school papers I emptied out of her 2019-2020 school backpack.  (I have been super busy the past 2 months, but hope to get some work done in both rooms today.)

So what's in my eldest's room:

• Furniture:  bed with drawers underneath; desk with one drawer [and chair]; bedside stand; bookshelves; dresser; bins in the closet; beanbag chair.
• Decorations: some K-Pop posters, a couple paintings / art items, a few knick-knacks, some medals.
• Stuff in the shelves / bins / where it should be:  all of her clothes (4 seasons), including outgrown stuff that needs to go; a few dozen books; a couple bins of stuffed animals; make-up on her desk; family games; chromebook, ipad, iphone; trumpet, stand, and music; various miscellaneous gifts / memorabilia.
• On the floor / dresser where it shouldn't be:  a few items of used clothes, school work, bags of Christmas presents that need homes, various attractive boxes that would be fun to keep if there weren't so many of them, and garbage that for some reason is difficult to put in the trash bin??

Edited February 27, 2021 by SKL

[Farrar]

In one kid's room... bed, small side table with lamp, dresser, long table/shelf at the foot of the bed, table cubby in the window with dual monitor set up and mechanical keyboard for clicky programming, wastebasket, hamper, bench he built for seating, small throw rug. Also a lot of trash.

In the other kid's room... I have no idea at this point. I'm afraid to go in there. I did tell him if he wanted to use the space heater (it's the least insulated room), he had to clear it enough to be safe and I peeked in and deemed it okay.

[Wheres Toto]

Lots of dust? 

Ds - very small room, doesn't really play with toys, mostly on computer or sketching/drawing in notebooks.  So his stays clean/organized longer on the occasions it is done.   He has drawers under his bed with Pokemon cards and various figurine type things, one has some stuffed animals and one has hats.  He claims that he doesn't want to get rid of any of it.  At the foot of his bed is a bookcase with books on the lower shelves, various figurines, rocks, collections, and other stuff on the higher shelves.   Some stuffies that are occasionally on his bed wind up on the floor between the foot of the bed and the bookcase, along with his computer backpack and anything else he chooses to throw there.   He has a nightstand with a drawer that holds his drawings and his computer sits on top when he's not using it.  He sits on his bed with a wood lap desk to do anything.  He has a tower of plastic drawers for his clothes that sits next to dh's dresser that has the tv and Nintendo Switch on top of it.   Dh's clothes are in the small closet with the very few things ds has that hang (mostly jackets/coats).  

Dd is a HUGE slob.   She has the biggest bedroom in the house (since she used to share with older dd) but the closet has my hanging clothes, her clothes that hang (mostly cosplay and hoodies), a wrapping paper holder, my shoes, luggage, sleeping bags and probably a few other things.   Her clothes are mostly in plastic drawers mounted to the wall over her bed (some drawers are my stuff) and one wider/deeper set of drawers on the floor.  She has a small desk, a few sets of cubes that hold books, TKD belts and broken boards, knickknacks, drawing supplies, clay and play-doh.  She has a hanging net with stuffed animals and a wood dollhouse (that my grandfather built for me when I was a kid) that mainly holds her computer when she's not using it, has a bunch of hoodies over the top and random other stuff thrown in there.  

Both kids have a hamper, ds actually puts all his dirty clothes in his. 

[Bootsie]

Her coat--which is an issue because she is on an internatioal flight right now to Austria and forgot her coat here 😞