I have several small dollhouses I was building until my daughter was born. I had the furniture I wanted to use for each house in shoe boxes, which aren't very sturdy. I looked around the house and had the exact number of shoe box sized plastic containers as I had shoe boxes, so I transferred the furniture to the plastic boxes. I also found a bigger empty plastic container in my basement (my mom had tons of Rubbermaid and Sterilite containers), so I cleaned that up and put the dollhouse shingles in that. Now everything is neatly stacked and there's room around it to get to the bookcases.