Sorry you are sick.
We bought our house for several reasons, one of which is the daylight basement. It is our family room, playroom, computer room, craft room, laundry room, tv room, music room, etc. I love it. It is shaped like a rectangle. One small wall and one half a long wall are toy storage. They have shelves and bins like pottery barn but from Target. It looks great when we clean up.
It has a small table and chairs in the middle and the play kitchen roams around that area. The couch divides that area from the family area. The family area has one half wall of built in shelves and two desks. That is for crafts and computers. The other small wall has the tv, stereo, and CDs under the windows. The other half of the long wall with toys has the fireplace. Between the tv and the couch are some open space for playing and a coffee table. The dollhouse is over here as it is pretty and I like to look at it. The cat condo and air purifier are on this side, too. The rest of the room has a doorway leading to the stairs, one closet for storage, one utility closet for storage and it has the utility sink, one closet for the furnace, and a large closet for the washer and dryer.
It is a great setup and helps keep the rest of the house clean. We do bring toys upstairs when we have company but they are in bins and get put away when done. My older dd has her special and super small toys in her room but she hardly ever plays in there. We spend most of our time in the basement. Even though I did not design it, it is perfect.
We bought our house for several reasons, one of which is the daylight basement. It is our family room, playroom, computer room, craft room, laundry room, tv room, music room, etc. I love it. It is shaped like a rectangle. One small wall and one half a long wall are toy storage. They have shelves and bins like pottery barn but from Target. It looks great when we clean up.
It has a small table and chairs in the middle and the play kitchen roams around that area. The couch divides that area from the family area. The family area has one half wall of built in shelves and two desks. That is for crafts and computers. The other small wall has the tv, stereo, and CDs under the windows. The other half of the long wall with toys has the fireplace. Between the tv and the couch are some open space for playing and a coffee table. The dollhouse is over here as it is pretty and I like to look at it. The cat condo and air purifier are on this side, too. The rest of the room has a doorway leading to the stairs, one closet for storage, one utility closet for storage and it has the utility sink, one closet for the furnace, and a large closet for the washer and dryer.It is a great setup and helps keep the rest of the house clean. We do bring toys upstairs when we have company but they are in bins and get put away when done. My older dd has her special and super small toys in her room but she hardly ever plays in there. We spend most of our time in the basement. Even though I did not design it, it is perfect.
My boys love Legos, the tiny, tiny ones. Even the 3 year old loves to play with them (although he can't build with them yet, really). They are everywhere. I used to have a Target 3-tiered thing, but it broke and then I didn't replace it. We have a metal bin with tons of Legos in it, but I need to come up with something that can organize these small parts in a way that my older son can SEE everything and know what Legos make what kind of thing (spacehip pieces in one, submarine pieces in another, you get the idea). Right now we have the sets separated in Ziplocs, but that doesn't always work, either. 
:
A lot? I always want to encourage him to build, but keeping up with all these little pieces is slowly driving me batty.
Follow Mothering