Toy story: How to sort and store children's playthings at home

Here's our easy guide to getting kids' toys and games sorted and stored and, eventually, on their merry way

Watch those fingers with the edges and hinges of benches and trunks. The Cam Cam Harlequin Storage Bench, in FSC MDF, €193, scandiborn.eu.

To you, it’s the dining room Saxony rug. To them, it’s the surface of Tatooine. To you, it’s the stairs and bannisters. To them it’s the perilous mountain face over a monster’s toothy lair, shaded by a stand of life-saving silver birch.

When you’re a child immersed in the hysterically exciting theatre of play, the house is an infinite stage for rich tales, textures, hiding, and ever-altering landscapes to assemble characters and props for the next chapter of an ongoing storyboard.