Easy Storage Fix

Since our baby girl came to join us 10 months ago, she took no time what so ever taking over our living room. Everyday I find myself cleaning up all of her stuff in the living... and each day more than the last. It got to the point when I finally realized that dragging her stuff back to her room each day was pointless.

As I was dilly-dallying around Big Lots one day, waiting for my son to get out of school, I saw a covered canvas bin... instantly I knew it could work.

As particular as I am, I still could not just let her stuff just "be there" and having a bin of some sort that doesn't "go" would not work for me. I had some fabric left over from the pillows I made for the couch & thought about maybe using that somehow...

I already have black accents so the bottom of the bin worked "as in." I took that left-over fabric from the pillows and covered the top of the bin. I first used some fabric spray adhesive and then hot glued the edges down. It looks perfect in the living room... although her toys never seem to stay in it. She'd much rather take all the toys out and sit in the bin. We have dubbed it, "her baby cave."