Ever completely rearranged your house?

[nancypants]

So last night my husband and I were discussing how our six year old has a super hard time concentrating during school. It's like there is a magnetic pull on his eyes to anything but what he is supposed to be doing! So we decided (at midnight mind you) that we needed to rearrange the house. (Have I ever mentioned that we can be just a wee tad impulsive?)

SO, we decided to make the living room (which is where we sit with guests usually... have Bible study there, etc...) would also have to become the T.V. room as up until now the T.V. room has been in the school room. It's not that we have the T.V. on during school but the mere presence of it is problematic. The videos and DVDs and games are not regularly maintained... (who can I try to cast the blame on for this? :rolleyes: I'll place it squarely on all of us! LOL)

So this morning we completely rearranged the living room AND the dining room (because I had to move a bookshelf that was in the living room into the dining room to make room for the t.v.) AND school room and because I had to move the dog kennel out of the school room to make room for the guitar and amplifier which had to be moved out of the living room to make room for the t.v. I had to figure a place to put it so I was forced to make the decision to put it in the older kids' room so I had to rarrange THAT room too! LOL This was like a Rube Goldberg device, either that or the Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly... one thing led to another, led to another, led to another...

All for my child. LOL

Anyways, the school room is now so much cleaner and more spacious and there is no competition with the T.V. gone! Yay! Plus, we can now play the Wii at night without waking the kids! :D

Ever do crazy things like this?

[Mama Bear]

And may we see them? :)

[nancypants]

And may we see them? :)

Well, we're not sufficiently tidied up enough for that. And the before pictures... if there were such an animal, would be far too scary for me to show! :eek: I have my pride you know! :rolleyes:

[Lisa in Jax]

So last night my husband and I were discussing how our six year old has a super hard time concentrating during school. It's like there is a magnetic pull on his eyes to anything but what he is supposed to be doing! So we decided (at midnight mind you) that we needed to rearrange the house. (Have I ever mentioned that we can be just a wee tad impulsive?)

SO, we decided to make the living room (which is where we sit with guests usually... have Bible study there, etc...) would also have to become the T.V. room as up until now the T.V. room has been in the school room. It's not that we have the T.V. on during school but the mere presence of it is problematic. The videos and DVDs and games are not regularly maintained... (who can I try to cast the blame on for this? :rolleyes: I'll place it squarely on all of us! LOL)

So this morning we completely rearranged the living room AND the dining room (because I had to move a bookshelf that was in the living room into the dining room to make room for the t.v.) AND school room and because I had to move the dog kennel out of the school room to make room for the guitar and amplifier which had to be moved out of the living room to make room for the t.v. I had to figure a place to put it so I was forced to make the decision to put it in the older kids' room so I had to rarrange THAT room too! LOL This was like a Rube Goldberg device, either that or the Old Lady Who Swallowed the Fly... one thing led to another, led to another, led to another...

All for my child. LOL

Anyways, the school room is now so much cleaner and more spacious and there is no competition with the T.V. gone! Yay! Plus, we can now play the Wii at night without waking the kids! :D

Ever do crazy things like this?
Uh, Yeah. My SIL teases me that it looks like we have rearranged the furniture every time she visits. ;-) I'm constantly moving this chair from that room to THAT room, or moving a dresser from here to there, etc., to do mini furniture moves. It drives poor dh nuts. :grin:

Lisa

[Tracey in TX]

When DH travels I get mentally bored and look for ways to improve our lives. That requires room assignment changes (first day of summer); library, family room, living room, and game room movement. Even our 'Radar Room' (named after a dog, not actual radar :)) gets moved periodically.

[nancypants]

Not that I'm really surprised at myself. I used to "surprise" my Mom like this all the time when I was a kid. I would have fastened all my furniture to the ceiling if it had been physically possible! LOL

If I ever decided on my own to clean my room, she knew to expect major changes! :D

[JudoMom]

Not that I'm really surprised at myself. I used to "surprise" my Mom like this all the time when I was a kid. I would have fastened all my furniture to the ceiling if it had been physically possible! LOL

If I ever decided on my own to clean my room, she knew to expect major changes! :D

LOL! One summer I convinced my brother to completely change rooms with me. So spent the day moving all my furniture into his room and all his furniture into mine.

But yeah, I moved my furniture all the time. Until we bought our current house. There is no other way to arrange the furniture. I think dh planned that on purpose :rolleyes:.

[Tonia]

Uh, Yeah. My SIL teases me that it looks like we have rearranged the furniture every time she visits. ;-) I'm constantly moving this chair from that room to THAT room, or moving a dresser from here to there, etc., to do mini furniture moves. It drives poor dh nuts. :grin:

Lisa

My dh is like this. I don't move the furniture around - he loves to do it. I like things the way they are and DO NOT want to move them. So I bought him the Sims and he can redecorate their houses at will ;)

[Quiver0f10]

We just did this on Saturday! My oldest has been sharing a room with her 2 sisters and really needed some personal space. So we moved the 3 oldest boys from their room and put them into the dining room ( had to run to Lowes and buy 2 doors, but it works nicely) and we moved my DD into thier room. Then we moved our dining room table to the living room and moved the books shelves and my desk from the school room into the new dinning room, creating a nice sized, new school room. Next we moved the living room into the old school room/family room. Confused yet? :D

So we went from a 4 bedroom house to a 5 bedroom with a larger school room all in days ( very hard) work.

[unsinkable]

I would have fastened all my furniture to the ceiling if it had been physically possible! LOL :D


My dd once took all of her brothers' stuffed animals and taped them to the ceiling. Oh, the screams of horror from those boys when they saw those poor stuffies!

unsinkable

[Baseballmom]

All the time. My husband often teases me by asking if I want to make the kitchen into our bedroom and put the appliances in the bedroom. Hee, Hee!

[Sue in WI]

This fall we turned our schoolroom into an office, and moved the schoolroom into the basement. My computer was already in there, but we had to move my husband's computer and desk, filing cabinets, and another desk from our bedroom, and move a chest to our bedroom.
But my favorite time was when oldest ds was 1 month old. We were living in a one bedroom flat, and decided to let him have the bedroom. We turned the dining room into the living room, and the living room became our bedroom. We laughed that the only rooms that stayed the same were the kitchen, and the bathroom, although we did put ds and his cradle in the kitchen while we were moving everything. We referred to the move as a rubick's cube, because in order to move anything, we had to move something else. When our 2nd son was born, we just added another crib to the bedroom. We lived there until our oldest was 3.

[Krista in LA]

My dh always thinks I'm crazy but it's the closest I'm going to get to a new house these days. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of ways we can arrange most of our rooms.

Enjoy your new arrangements.

[Tutor]

At least once a year or else my dh gets itching to move. He moved 17 times from birth until he started college mainly because his dad just liked moving into new places (he's a real estate agent now, so at least his love of new places is profitable). Usually they just moved from one side of town to another. LOL

My dh has apparently inherited the wanderlust, so we redo everything at least once per year... on a large scale. We probably move a couple pieces of furniture around once every month or so.

I like discovering the versatility in my home. Makes me appreciate it more.

[Remudamom]

I'm being foiled in my latest attempt though, because it involves moving a grand piano through doors too small. I do not understand the problem with paying piano movers to come from 90 miles away to move the piano 20 feet.

[HeatherH]

I'd really like to move my dh and myself downstairs to the small bedroom, and put our 3 girls (ages 9,7,3) in the master bedroom. Then dd 15 could have her own room - of course, then she'd want hardwood flooring and a ballet barre -

BUT - we may put the house on the market soon, and such a rearrangement would not work for potential buyers. Am I right?:confused:

[Amy in Orlando]

LOL - my friends make fun of me because I rearrange out house (not just a room) so often. It's really one of my favorite hobbies.

[gardenschooler]

Used to be one of my favorite past times, but it's just not possible where we live now. Unless we want our bed next to the front door...

I've made a dining room a bedroom in a pinch, by adding a wall of bookcases. At that house, we had a *gigantic* living room that we then made into a den/playroom/dining room, and it worked very well.

When my girls were little, they liked to play 'poor people' by closing off our doors to our living room/sunroom/upstairs playroom. We were left with the kitchen, dining room, 2 bedrooms and a bath. Little did we know we'd soon live in a house not much bigger than that! (location, location, location...):D

[BamaTanya]

Yes! Sometimes to fix a problem -- like you're doing. Other times I just get the itch. It's kind of my motivation for deep cleaning. I start pushing and vacuuming and tossing . . . I don't know what hits me, but it's a real shot of adrenaline to rearrange.

[M&M]

We do this all of the time. With 7 people living in a very small house (and with a large extended family) we change rooms all of the time. There is one larger room on our first floor. It is supposed to be the diningroom is has been the living room, the school room, the dining room and now is playing double duty as a dining/school room.

The den has been a playroom and a living room/tv room. The living room (which is too small for a couch) has been a dining room and is now a sitting room or the "front room".

When I had a friend coming once a week to help clean she would walk in the house and say "You guys are freaking me out! I never know what room I'm in in this house!"

I like our arrangement now, but we have a bible study starting soon and I may have to move things again depending on how many people we have.

It's like playing dollhouse just bigger

[CookieMonster]

Yes!

As I grow in my ability to take care of my house, my ideas about how to organize rooms and designate what they're for grows too. I have absolutely reassigned my entire house before. And it felt good afterwards.