Does anyone know who makes those cute baskets in the picture?

I think those baskets are either Land of Nod or Pottery Barn Kids.

The only toy free-room in our house is the master bath. Don't laugh, that's actually a recent development. I used to have to step over a Little People house to get in the shower and when my son was a baby we kept the excersaucer in there.

I do have a box, basket, or shelf in each room for the toys to be put away in, just in case anyone ever feels like cleaning up after themselves.

Hmmmm...now that I'm giving it some thought, no there is not one room in our house that is toy-free. Granted it's only five rooms plus a bathroom and pantry. Wait does the pantry count? Because that is definitely toy-free.

those bins are from pottery barn kids and available in may.

We keep a fairly toy-free home, to be honest. It stresses me out to have to step over toys (or worse...ouch, ON them), so I prefer to keep the majority of the house toy free. The kids are welcome to bring out a toy or activity if they want to play seperately from eachother, but for the most part, the toys stay in the designated toy area. If we had a larger home, it may be a different case, but with such a small space, there's simply no room to keep toys in every room of the house.

This is interesting because I was just debating this very subject in my own mind. I was cleaning up our living room this weekend and moved all of the toys out, except for one very small basket. The place looked quite tidy and "grown up" for the first time in a very long time. I thought maybe we should try to keep it toy-free for a while. My son fixed that pretty quickly, though! I think it's fighting a losing battle with an almost-two-year-old to try to keep toys out of any room in our house. And as long as I've got nice, tidy storage for them in every room, I'm find with that. Maybe if we had a more formal house, with rooms that we didn't actually USE, then we'd have more rooms without toys in them.

toy-free? if all are complying, that would be most of our small apartment. sanity is precious and, at our apt, dependent on as little visual clutter as possible. play is allowed all over the house, but all must be taken back to its rightful place in her toy closet once the active playing is over.

We have a fairly big house, and most of it is toy-free. Funny enough, our child keeps all his toys in the living room, because it's the only room we really use. Plus we have a small kitchen, with no spare room for toys, and my office which I (would) like to keep tidy. Sometimes we use it for crafts, because of the big table in it, but then we clean up.
Bedrooms are upstairs, so it's easy to keep them toy free. I might even consider my son's bedroom "toy" free, because it's packed full with his books and readings!

Play can take place anywhere in our house and toys can migrate pretty much everywhere. But they are stored in one, neat place and at the end of the day, and sometimes several times during the day, they all get moved back there.

We keep the majority of the toys in the living room, behind bookshelves with doors or in a single, small toy chest.

We try to buy attractive toys that are open ended so most don't offend the eye. But I never, ever want to live in one of those houses with plastic junk everywhere. I have enough of that in my family.

2 kids, 3rd on the way..720 sq feet...yes we need to keep some areas toy free. Our solution is 1 toy box and what does not fit or does not work as decor is gone! The kids mostly play in their bedroom or the living room but have to clean up b4 bedtime! However, once a week during my deep cleaning, i do find those choo choos and matchbox cars under the fridge somehow!

We have "an office" play room, where our kids "work" most of the day!!! We don't have a trail around the house... one basket of cooking toys in the kitchen, none in the lounge or the bedroom - bedrooms are for sleeping... so one room has toys and that's it!

Besides closets and bathrooms? My living room is usually toyless, but it doesn't kill me to have toys or playtime in there. We just move the toys when we're done, and it's not hard.

Our lower-floor plan is open, so of course, toys go from room to room, but that's how we envisioned it. Kids didn't grow up between four walls until modern times -- they need more legroom than you think -- and I allow my child to go in all rooms of the house and to play in all rooms. It's not hard to pick up a couple of straggler toys.

I want to live in a house, not a catalog picture of a house.

The toys are stored in the children's bedrooms, that's the only place the toys get to live. While the children do sometimes bring a project to the other areas of the house, everything goes straight back to their rooms when they're done. I want to be able to relax at the end of the day and not worry about stepping on their stuff.

Most of our rooms are toy-free. She plays with her toys in her bedroom and they are put away each night before bedtime. We have one small basket of toys on a shelf in the den, but that's really it. I never wanted to have a house that was over-run by toys and kid gear. Kids really don't need the amount of stuff they seem to have these days anyway. We limit the number of things we bring into the house (for us and her) and that keeps our small house under control and organized.

Our kids our now 7 and have the entire upstairs of the house, except for my desk and the small area surrounding it. They each have a bedroom upstairs and there is an arts & crafts area as well. All toys belong upstairs, in their bedrooms, but they are allowed to play with things downstairs. The toys just go back upstairs when play time is over. We keep a basket at the bottom of the stairs to toss stuff throughout the day. In their rooms, their are storage containers and other tubs, cubbies and baskets designated (and often labeled) for each type of toy, so clean up is (should be) easy. Those big, rectangular, under the bed storage tubs are great for storing things like Barbies, legos and race track sets under the bed.
When the kids were toddlers, their toys were mostly in the family room and went back into baskets and onto shelves each evening and throughout the day.

Like others have said, my son is allowed to play with toys anywhere in the house, but they 'live' in his room and are mostly back there by the time he goes to bed (and periodically in the day - we try to clean up before moving on to the next activity). A stray animal, ball, or book can laze around for some time - especially at the dining table as he likes to eat with his freinds - but we have two cats and their cat toys that are around, so we don't need additional stuff.

When T was younger (he's now 2 1/2) we kept a small area for toys (rotating of play mat, excersaucer, play table, walker, popper) in the living room, but I am very happy to have that relegated back to his room. We live in a 1600 sq ft 50's ranch so there is some room to have things about, I get crazed with too much clutter and mess. I like my house to look lived in and comfortable, but not over run by toys.

We have 2 floors, both with rooms where toys are allowed, and others that are not. The toy banishment began with the kitchen table while we were eating-'No Toys at the Table' is the first rule we set. Then no balls or rolling anything in the kitchen, after someone nearly broke an ankle and dropped a pot. Now we've reclaimed our bedroom. The majority stay in the kids' room and our playroom/office, but several have found homes in the living room and the wooden train set seems to like the dining room's wooden floors the best. We eat in there almost every day, but it's nice to play in, too.

Maybe as my children grow more areas will be toy-free, so I'm not too worried about where things are now.

When we had a two story, we had toy storage and toys downstairs and upstairs, but now that we have a one-story, my daughter's toys all live in her room, but, like others they can come out to be played with. They all get cleaned up and put back at naptime and bedtime and sometimes, if I'm lucky or it's especially messy, other times as well.