Whether you have one kid or several, finding smart, sturdy, and stylish storage solutions is likely always going to be a top priority. Even before you bring a baby home, they accumulate all sorts of toys, books, and accessories that can be tricky to store. Luckily, one UK family came up with a smart way to incorporate their child’s things into their decor, and you might want to give it a try.,Ross and Marianna Popejoy live in a 1025-square-foot worker’s cottage in East London with their six-year-old son Finn. Professionally, the couple runs a creative agency together, so they’ve proven to be a great team full of unique ideas. For the last eight years, they’ve been renovating their narrow but “deceptively spacious” home that’s over a century old, turning it into something absolutely stunning.,Mantels and fireplaces aren’t something you’d expect to see inside a kid’s room, but they do pop up from time to time, especially in older homes. In this case, a faux mantel turned out to be the perfect place to store Finn’s books and toy bins. Faux mantels can be found in all sorts of colors and finishes, so Popejoy painted Finn’s a bright shade of orange to fit with the whimsical, kid-centric vibe of the room. Inside the mantel, the family mounted two wood planks to create shelving and painted them the same shade of orange, then styled out the perches with Finn’s favorite reads. The extra space underneath the lower shelf even allows them to stash bins of toys! You could also try this kind of shelving idea in a non-functional fireplace, no matter the room of the house.,“We try to make everything that we choose for our home work really hard,” Popejoy says, and this mantel-turned-bookshelf is a perfect example of that philosophy.,