I just came across this photo that I took about 3 years ago. It's a little bit out of focus so I never ended up putting it on viatoybox.com. 17 modular storage cubes plus some shelves all connect together to hold quite a lot of stuff.

This reminds me of the time when my daughters were so little. In the evening, one would be asleep in her toddler bed and one would be in my arms. And of course, all of the toys would be scattered across the floor. I remember how nice it was to toss all of the toys through the circle or square with one hand. I had a feeling other parents would like that, too.

This little boy has the right idea. It looks like he has his own little place to play. The via toy boxes make a good dividing wall to split up a bigger space. Thank you, Crystal in Singapore. It's nice to see your adorable son playing around his toy boxes. It looks like he can get to all of his favorite stuff pretty easily.

I hate snaps! That's such a funny name for a blog written by a dad. I think he designed a pretty cool set. Those colors look really good together.

This one is on daddtypes. He also has a pretty kind review plus really cool photos of assembling his toy box set.

These photos were sent in for a contest sponsored by ohdeedoh and Cookie Magazine. I think they made a really cool looking toy box set for their living room space.

I have rearranged these boxes so many ways. This picture was taken about 3 years and 72 different configurations ago. I've grouped all of the blue ones together. I've made sets with only doors, or only circles like that storage bench shown here. I have split them up to make smaller sets for lots of different purposes.

This picture reminds me of the days when my youngest daughter would sit in front of her via toy boxes and grab toys. Then it wasn't long until she was pulling herself up on them. Now she climbs up them to go to sleep. Time flies, but the modular storage is still working for us.

With 3 girls in the house I am a little outnumbered when it comes to shoes, bags, and accessories. You'd be hard pressed to spot much of my stuff in these photos, but hey, I love being surrounded by chicks (most of the time).

I wanted to transform this small space near the front door into an organized launch pad and landing zone. So, I cleared the deck of all furniture and started hanging. We wrapped square pieces of plywood with some paper we got from the fancy new paper store down the street. We anchored them to the wall and screwed the hooks on.

I made the slanted shoe racks with some left over plywood I had. They are working out pretty well so far. The little shoes fit in them perfectly.

I call it a necessity. I am always moving my via boxes around to be used for different things. Here, I wanted to create a small partition. I removed all of the colorful fronts and doors that were once on the storage cubes. I used several different inserts to help organize stuff that we need to get to a lot. The small pales on the side hang on attachable pegs and house crayons and colored pencils. The big red cylinder used to be a fancy leather wine bottle holder, but now it keeps some of the best artwork done in the house.

The back of the unit is finished nicely with solid panels, and the girls have already discovered how to get to anything sitting on top. Putting the big pot of leftover Halloween candy up there was not one of my brightest moves. I may take it a bit higher and add another row of boxes.

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.

One sixteenth, one eighth, three sixteenths, one quarter,

Five sixteenths, three eighths, seven sixteenths, one half.

Nine sixteenths, five eighths, eleven sixteenths, three quarters,

Thirteen sixteenths, Seven eighths, fifteen sixteenths, ONE!

For basic carpentry, we typically measure and cut everything in increments of a sixteenth inch. When cutting sheetrock or drywall, eighth of an inch increments are just fine.

Please send home improvement questions to John, the resident carpenter, and creator of Via Toy Box. He will answer each question via email and post one question and answer every week.

We don't have much space in our main clothes closet so we had to be a little creative. The via boxes are perfectly sized for folded sweaters and pants. We started with the tower in the corner and rotated the front of the boxes so we could attach shelving and rods along each wall.

What can I say, we have more via boxes than closet space. They work really well for organizing the girls' clothes and tons of other stuff.

Thank you, Julie for sending in pics of your super fun playroom. What kid wouldn't want to spend all day there dressing up, making artwork, and hanging out? It is a well thought out layout and the via toy boxes are used nicely to divide the space.