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i have never seen anything like that...

you could get something like this...

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70115578

it may work for you (the ikea one) unless your girl has really big stuffed animals and dolls- that wont fit in the holes. ihave one of them laying around but haven't hung it yet.

we have one of the ikea things in the boys' nursery. it's okay....but yeah, anything too big won't fit.

My mom made something somewhat like this for me when I was a kid. She asked at the carpet store for an empty carpet roll, cut it to fit between the floor and ceiling (tight fit) and painted it to match the room. Then she drilled holes in a line spiraling up around it and hung my animals from curtain hooks stuck in the holes. Each animal had a bright ribbon tied around the neck so it could be hung from the cutain hook. If it were to do it today, I'd probably use small L brackets at the top to attach to the ceiling to make sure it couldn't be pushed over. I'd also use small S hooks, as curtain hooks are very sharp on one end.

What about something as simple as a toy net attached to the corner walls? A standard example would be this: http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=680 but I'm sure you could find or even make something more interesting. It would free up floor space and if put in the right place it would also be accessible for your daughter to reach the toys and put them back. The vertical organizer seems more like you would have to take the toys down for her and put them away (especially the ones that are higher up!)

Above suggestions are good. Or maybe a tall skinny bookcase with pullout bins? Or also, divide the stuffed animals into categories somehow and keep one category out at a time. You know what I mean? Then you don't have to have them all out and looking at them at once, and the kids don't get sick of them so that they're just dust collectors. I don't know, but I had to comment so I could request that you please not hang the baby dolls like the one in the picture! Ack! Does that gross anyone else out? Teddy bears are one thing, but please no hanging babies! (I am probably weirdly squeamish about this.)

The baby doll hanging like that is creeping me out.

We have a bookshelf with a built in bin at the bottom where all the animals go. Kind of like this one except the bin is twice as deep.

http://www.landofnod.com/family.aspx?c=46&f=65&pc=4

I had a chain hung from the ceiling in one corner of my room. There were colorful loops of ribbon tied to it. My stuffed animals all hung from that. My sister had a pegboard tree on one wall that stored hers.

What about The Zoo?

yeah, there must be something better than that. a lot of my friends had those vertical storage chain and clips things when i was little, and even as a lisa frank lovin' kid i thought they were tacky.

Maybe a pegboard on the wall with colorful (or white) velcro or snap loops between two holes every so often? that would be easy and cheap to make yourself, too, but might not get used often.

ReadyMade had a feature on closet organization a few issues ago, and they stacked (like a ladder) and stretched bungi cords across a wall to tuck shoes into. You could do the same thing with something safer, like stretchy fabric loops.

You could also try a clothesline with large clips across one of the walls to clip the animals to.