We had a great time on Studio 6 yesterday on KOIN, the local CBS station here in Portland. I showed Hayley, the really nice host, how easy it is to change a Via Toy Box set into a desk for homework or the home office. I think the combination of the Natural and Espresso finishes looks really good, too.
“Hey John,
I got the boxes put together today and took a few pictures, some with my son Pablo. He’s been having fun rediscovering old toys now that they are more available to him. At first I though it might be hard to use the boxes for his kinds of toys, since he’s beyond all the stuffed animals and plush toys I see in most of the photos. But, it’s actually worked out quite well, because the front shapes offer some visual blockage so we don’t have to look at all his toys, but still make them easily available to him. Great design!
Andra”
That’s a great looking set, Andra. I love all the bold colors in the room, too. Thanks for writing and sending the great photos!
My good buddy, Konstantin, put these together because his little girl is growing up fast. Natalie is getting so big that its better to keep the toys up higher. Plus, it makes a great bench. He had them arranged before as a bookshelf upstairs in the man cave.
He was a little over the top with his endorsement, but that’s what friends are for! Konstantin says this about ViaBoxes, “I was inspired by your SUV stunt and thought if he can drive over these boxes, I need to give them a try, and wow, these boxes really are in a league of their own! We will be replacing our cheap IKEA rack (see mirror) with these shortly! What a work of craftsmanship. The honey finish matches our floors, too!”
Thanks for the nice words and photo!
Rebecca from North Carolina sent photos of her new and improved playroom. It’s great how she has utilized the bins that she had before with the ViaBoxes for extra organization. There are even more bins filled with toys behind the doors and out of sight. She used a Triple Top and a Quad Top to span across the ViaBoxes to provide additional surfaces for larger items.
Plus, this Via Toy Box bench makes a great window seat. It’s nice for kids to be able to grab stuff without having to clear the top off first, unlike a traditional toy chest.
Stack a couple pairs of ViaBoxes together and connect two Long Shelves between. Add a Quad Top and it makes a computer station.
The second graders just stand up when they are working or playing on these computers, but you could even remove the bottom shelf so a chair can slide underneath.
This new reading station looks really nice in Ms. Gennie’s class. There is plenty of storage for large books behind the colorful doors. Olivia told me that her classmates take turns sitting on the top Box during reading time.
We just connected 3 ViaBoxes with Doors together and then added one more that we rotated 90 degrees with an Inside Shelf. Also included is a Double Top and a Single Top in Honey. That finish goes great with the White ViaBoxes.
I can’t wait to see how well this holds up in the classroom. It should take plenty of abuse everyday from the 7 and 8 year olds. I’m not concerned. I know ViaBoxes can take it.
What’s that, Ms. Gennie? You would like more ViaBoxes? You need a new computer station? No problem! ViaBoxes can be used to create all kinds of furniture for school.
ViaBoxes are great for your child’s toy storage now, but time flies and they grow up fast. We make our Boxes with the most durable materials to outlast childhood and beyond. Because they will last for years and years, the great thing about ViaBoxes is that you can transform them into many other types of furniture for future uses.
It’s pretty simple to arrange 4 ViaBoxes into a desk. A Quad Top securely connects to the top of the Boxes at a standard height. Add a couple doors and shelves and that will help you keep things organized and out of sight.
Thanks to a cool Via customer, we can show you another example of ViaBoxes in all of their functioning glory. Instead of buying a new changing table, they simply converted 4 ViaBoxes they already had into a stylish diaper station. The cush diaper pad is sized perfectly to fit right on top of 2 ViaBoxes.
I remember back to my diaper changing days not too long ago that this configuration was really handy for us, too. I could keep one hand on the baby as I reached through a shaped opening with the other to grab the wipes and dipes.
Thank you, Hartmann family from Redmond, Washington, for sending in a shot of your snazzy nursery. We love receiving photos of great ideas and storage sets our customers have designed. If you would like to share yours, please send them to us, info@viaboxes.com.
The weather has finally heated up in Portland, so we made a lemonade stand out of four ViaBoxes. OliVIA and Scarlet are having a blast on these hot afternoons.
The sidewalk has a lot of foot traffic, and it’s paying off, literally.
My wife and I thought about the girls’ room for quite awhile. Our idea was to design a playroom with functional bedroom furniture and loaded with plenty of storage solutions. There were some challenges, the main one being that the space is only 13 feet by 10 feet. Since our apartment is cozy, around 1200 sf, the four of us need all the usable space we can get. So, the more space we could make for the kids, the more space, potentially, kind of, we could have for the grown ups. This was a pretty selfish project on my part.
We considered bunk beds. That sounded like a good way to create a bit more space in the room. But who would get the top bunk? Is it usually the younger one? I think Bobby slept on the top bunk above Peter in The Brady Bunch. I also remember Arnold, in Different Strokes, climbing up to the top of that cool perpendicular bed that he shared with Willis. But does that make sense? Why wouldn’t we want to play it safe and put the youngest below? But then we realized they’d probably both want to be on top so we came up with two loft beds, instead.
Raising both beds up allowed us more living space below. We created two separate spaces so the girls would each have their own corner of the world to play and learn. We chose their favorite colors for the wall below so that area would be more unique. That also gave us the ability to go in two different directions with the decor. The rolling toy storage bench in the middle makes a meeting place for tea parties and active imaginations. It’s also good for mom or dad to stand on when checking on the little guys. The modular toy boxes, from viatoybox.com, make great big steps up to the top, too.
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