To save space in one’s household, especially if you have kids growing up, endeavor to have bookcases and shelves designed to accommodate their many playbooks and all other types of books, items you regularly buy almost yearly. This way, you are able to arrange your household systematically, and avoid the hassle of seemingly endless searching for this and that book your kids may ask for now and then.
The nature of children is that they seldom stick to one thing or one activity for long. They tend to shift from one activity to the next, as they go through all that restlessness in their very young years. It is always one toy or one book for awhile, after which the kid starts looking for the next one in minutes. You are lucky if your kid is “steady” enough to stick to a toy or a book for an hour.
The hollers and cries of kids wanting to get attention and fast action from you whenever they ask for anything can be an endless bother day long, and these can even be irritating to you sometimes. Hence the need to have a system of arranging their things in a more manageable manner, like their books placed in one area you can label as the kids’ “Childrens Bookcases”. Labeling them this way with readily recognizable signs will be very helpful for you to easily identify when you are in a hurry to get what the kids ask for. This will help in keeping the noise down a little bit in your house, when you are able to react fast in situations like this.
Try to arrange the placing of the books alphabetically, meaning the sub-labels you create for this purpose must be in alphabetical order, so you can locate a book easily, like when you locate a word in the dictionary. A book may not be easy to look for from just any place, because you still have to read through the title, to please the kids fast.
The Dollhouse Bookshelf can just be a simple structure made of plywood thick enough so your husband will not need any frame to nail together the cut plywood to form the bookshelf. A piece of plywood an inch thick is ideal for this purpose, one can just cut it up into the dimensions required, nail them together, and you have it done with not much effort. Some painting can be added, to give it that look of having been made by a professional.
The buying by parents of toys and books of the kids may not be noticed on a day to day basis, but try to group them together after a year, and you can appreciate how much space in the house these things can take up.
They can even be an eye sore, and takes a lot of effort just sorting them out. When you have the kids’ bookcases and shelves, with the books properly arranged in them, you can just relax and take it easy. You have done that chore of book-arranging much earlier. |
