My kids say (please weigh in)

[Pamela H in Texas]

that it is unreasonable for me to ask them to move the livingroom across the house every other month.

It's just that I get these GREAT ideas and then these ideas change and I have to move the house accordingly.

Well, last week I was just joking when I suggested we move the livingroom back over to the other side of the house. Now I'm not. I moved the master bedroom into the biggest regular bedroom and want to make the master a school room and the now-livingroom into the activity room which means that the activity room stuff needs to come to this side of the house and the livingroom needs to move back over to the other side of the house.

Maybe I should bribe them but I think as many times as I've changed it in the last year, that $5 each might not cut it.

Maybe I could put in writing that after this time I won't change it again in 2008, PROMISE!

[Remudamom]

The only thing that keeps me from moving our livingroom to the den and back again is the need for professional piano movers to move the grand. We got it last summer and my rearranging has been severely curtailed.

If five bucks won't do, try five bucks and a pizza party.

[Sasharowan]

LOL, I would love to be able to move things around. Unfortunately, we have things utilizing space the most efficient way and dh won't help move anything right now anyway. PLus, when my mom moved some couches around, the kids were highly upset with her, but soon adjusted. My kids do not deal well with change, especially my oldest. I shall lhave to live vicariously through you. I agree with Remudamom, pizza and $5.

[WTMindy]

Sounds like you need to up the bribe a little bit! :001_smile: They CAN be bought, I'm sure.

[Jen3boys]

LOL!!!!! My dh is so good about moving furniture. Can you try the bookcase over there? .....Nah, Can you try it over here now?

[Jennifer3141]

Up the bribe and see what happens. :)

Jen

[abbeyej]

I find it so funny how some people are obsessive about moving furniture, and some never, ever move anything. I'm in the latter group, but my sister is in the former. I've never been in her room twice with the furniture in the same spots, and when she has a house of her own, I'm sure it will be the whole house that's shifting. One of my best friends has a different living room arrangement every time I go to her house.

Dh and I pretty much figure out where the furniture needs to go and that's that, lol.

Hm, maybe you need to ask the kids for an estimate... ;)

[Julie in CA]

We built a beautiful home about 6 years ago after living in a teeny-tiny rundown shack of a house for 12 years.

The floorplan of my new home is self-designed, and I did a *great* job of using space, according to the draftsman who drew the actual plans, the engineer who checked everything, the flooring folks, and most people who walk through.

The floor plan is well designed, but I somehow built this house where in *every single room* there's only one way to have the furniture arranged. I'm one of those furniture-rearrangers trapped in a home where nothing can be moved without a major remodeling. :sad:

What's even sadder is that my kids would even move stuff every day if I gave them $5 (or the pizza someone else mentioned).