You know what would be really Montessori Grabbster? A playroom where they could go and pull out whatever they wanted and spread themselves out to properly play rather than the area squashed behind a door in the lounge or under a dusty console table where they will bang their unkempt hair covered heads 14 x a day.
That 'Snug' of yours clearly never gets used as a room, because the view from your lovingly collected chair (what a jape of a story that was....Lolz!) would be of your eyesore junk pile.
Grabby my sweet, you need the content, your Miss Haversham house* is not appealing to anyone unless they are stuck in the same mid 2010 timezone you are.
So grab a paintbrush, a cardboard box the size of a skip and get yourself up a decorating ladder. Maybe try begging Coat and licking Lick arse if money is too tight to buy some paint.
*Look her up, they probably didn't teach about her when Benpecked did your degree for you.