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Famous A. I like your ideas.
Its not my home, but I would live with it and work with it, even if I hated it. But I am cheep!

#5 is the best. I am super organized and I even feel like a lame-o if my closet looks like..a closet. Thanks guys for making my day.

Sorry if someone said this already, but New York is also on the Top Best Cities in the world. I think if you don't have money it pretty much sucks no matter what your location is.

Books, is my go to. Kind of a dud when the kid is opening it up but then they have that book forever.
Stamps.
Cold hard cash. I have ten nieces and nephews, they love their birthday card with $10 bucks. Who knew.

-a secret space that connected two rooms on the top floor
-two finished rooms above the garage, that they never used and I always tried to make it into a club house for kids
-matching plastic dinner set for each kid
-snoopy snow cone maker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live in a very small place. I know there will be years and years of projects and art from my two little kids. So I show it on a door that has a natural frame. Save a bit (tiny bit since we have zero storage) and recycle the rest, weekly.

You did a great job! And really good at dressing for each photo. Its like a mini magazine! Not my style but I love it so much! Thank you for sharing.

I am super old school: no TV, no phones of any kind, and no computers in the bedroom. I have a clock that does not have an LCD screen because the light drives me nuts. Black out shades. It has to be a bit cold too. The bed has to be made everyday since getting in an unmade bed feels like getting in to garbage, and then I can't sleep. So I guess I am anti tech in the bedroom. Sweet dreams everyone.

I think you should look at a center piece above the table on the wall, so your eye goes there first. I like the yellow chairs, so I would include a pop of yellow in that poster, or painting, or frame. (if its a yellow frame then you could display the kids art in it) Then I would zone off the rest of the wall. Do you need hanging shelves, would it look to messy? I see a painting area and a drum set. You could zone off the rest of the wall and hang gray or neutral storage for the arts and craft stuff. Just have a home for all the crafts, so at the end of the day the table is clear. If you like the idea of chalkboard there are also chalkboard wall decals that come in fun shapes.
http://www.allmodern.com/Wallies-House-and-Trees-Chalkboard-Vinyl-Peel-and-Stick-Mural-16011-WXS1127.html?refid=GPA81-WXS1127&gclid=COHOkr-M6a4CFQdN4AodTyWWgQ
Good luck!

I also like the idea of breaking up the room into zones. BUT just try floating your sofa maybe about three or four feet from the windows. Then behind that is toy storage, a little table and whatnot. When your kid goes to bed its gone away and it looks tidy. When she is playing its a cool space and the toys get dragged out all over anyway.
We did this with our long ass living room. It works well for us.