As our family grows older, our needs change. I try to buy very sturdy furniture that I can imagine multiple uses for and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This white bookcase from Ikea has been moved three times and as you can see, it is no small piece.
On the left, you can see how it was originally used to fill a great multipurpose need in my kitchen/livingroom/diningroom/daycare space.
A couple years later, my home daycare closed and we rearranged the house and moved hubby's office out of the basement. The basement became the kids' primary domain. We turned his former office into a play space.
I was desperate for toy storage. I took apart the giant shelf and brought it down stairs to our play room and its primary purpose was toy storage.
Now we have moved to a completely new house. Some of my kids are still into small toys, so bins on the bottom work great for all those legos, cars, trains and dollies! My older child is into gaming consoles and so now it the bookshelf sports all the games, cords, gadgets and related gaming paraphernalia.
