You need toy storage. A toy box coffee table, a shelving unit with basket storage...look up armoires or storage units. Won't be long till your little person will be able to put his toys away when done. Enjoy watching him play.

I agree with erinsean-----you desperately need some storage items. Perhaps try moving sofa in middle of room angled and facing FP. Try chair to right of sofa by FP. Turn rug lengthwise in front of sofa. Can't tell by picture if that is another chair, love seat or sofa. Place it on wall where metal art is hanging. Place big basket at end of furniture for toys or put item in front of FP at end of sofa. Pull furniture off of wall 6" and store toys behind it????Move picture over this furniture, but hang lower. ( approx 6" above furniture.) Try to find a rectangular, cloth or leather storage bench to place behind sofa facing TV. You could either put an armoire or table with baskets underneath the table on the wall where sofa is now. ( Move metal art here if get table or to side of armoire- 6-7" above table) Find a coffee table with storage- could use rectangular bench or round ottoman with storage. Perhaps limit the amount of toys your child plays with in room. Store some in closet, garage, patio, etc and exchange toys periodically.

I watch a one year old throughout the week and some of the toys are his. thank you for the advice.

First that T.V needs to be mounted on a wall with a cabinet below it that could also function as toy storage. I agree it is impossible that even 2 kids play with all of those toys remove at least 1/2 and I bet it won’t faze them at all. Hang the T.V on the wall where that scrll work is that BTW is hung way too high. FYI when our kids were small we would take 1/2 the Xmas toys or BD toys and put them aways and the 6 months later we traded them around. I would actually look at a soorage system for that wall along with the T.V I like Besta from Ikea for the ability to configure it how you like.Put the sofa facing the T.V then a chair on each side angled to the sofa., a nice coffee table

I love the idea of pulling the sofa away from the wall and making the area behind the sofa 'toy central.' It can be his own cave. Or their own cave!

Then, again, I'm repeating from above, but, a coffee table/storage ottoman and a TV console that doubles as toy storage will help.

It's very rare to have all the toys put away at once, but it helps to have an easy way to hide some of them.

Maybe a kids' table behind the couch.

Storage ottoman ideas - I like the set of three - one as coffee table and two make kid seats.
TV console ideas. If you're handy, you can even build one.

You can even buy a sectional sofa that has storage built in.

I would do a few things that will help with storage and room layout.

First, I would move the TV to the wall with the medal medallion and purchase a long credenza with doors (for toy storage) to place TV onto. Then, I would move the long couch across from that wall. Move chair, angled toward *new* TV wall, where the couch currently sits. Then, I would purchase a tall armoire for the wall to the right of the fireplace for additional toy storage. I would also get a large, nice looking wicker basket for additional toys. Any toys that could not fit into the 3 types of storage would be donated or kept outside.

Is there also another couch in there? What is going on on the opposite wall from the medallion wall?

I have a 1 and 3 year old so I get it but there is no way you need that many toys. As you mentioned, I would go through it donate what your son doesn't use.

Then I would take a large chunk of the remaining toys and put it in storage or closet and then rotate out toys every few weeks (so things feel new again and don't take up so much space.

Then I would purchase some mutilating pieces to hide the toys. Some ideas...I have a storage ottoman/coffee table in my living room. A console table to hide more toys in the drawers and a book shelf that I put baskets in the lower shelves for more toys. On any given day, all toys have a place to go and be out of site.

The house has a lot of charm and high ceilings. I would try and find another place for toy kitchen and mount tv on another wall so the fireplace and built in above can be a nice focal point.

Then I would take a large chunk of it and put it in storage and then rotate out toys every few weeks (so things feel new again and don't take up so much space.

Yep, we always overbought at Christmas when our kids were little. I used to put a lot up like hutchae84 suggested. It works great! That way they had "new" toys every month! I would leave out the ones they played with everyday, and rotate the rest. If there was something that they didn't play with much and it was a pain to keep the pieces together, it got donated.

If you do this in both the living room and bedroom, you will love it. Do this during nap time or after bedtime (stops the screams). If you pull out only a few at a time, it works better.

At least some storage should be open bins or baskets at child level. A little one can put things away in an open container long before safely lifting and closing a lid. It's never too early to teach a child to only take out what s/he is playing with at the moment and put it away when done or before taking out something else.