Not sure if this is the right sub for this but I’m just curious how long would you consider it normal to wait before changing/redecorating your child’s room after they moved out of your house? If at all.
Not sure if this is the right sub for this but I’m just curious how long would you consider it normal to wait before changing/redecorating your child’s room after they moved out of your house? If at all.
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My oldest has the nicest of the kid bedrooms in the house, so she knows when she goes to college her sister gets that room. So basically I’m changing it as soon as she moves out, but I’ll fix up another room so she has a place to stay when she’s home on breaks and stuff
my brother’s room literally never changed until they moved (it was up on the third floor so not the easiest guest room). I think they might have added a second twin bed like 2 years after he left just in case someone with kids spent the night or he was home and his best friend was crashing. mine I think they kept until I’d been graduated from college for about a year and then it became a guest room.
If they’re just away at university, you don’t. If they have their own home (apartment or whatever) then whenever you want.
I will keep their space until they finish college and make a plan. If they are living away during the school year and coming home on weekends and summers or potentially school vacation, they will still have a bedroom, but once they’ve officially moved out of my house to live somewhere else I will dismantle their bedroom.
Any time they have their own permanent home, I’d say. My brother still has a room in my parent’s house because he’s in school. I’m the same age but married and my room got redesigned into an office. It doesn’t bother me even though we are the same age. My husband and I don’t spend the night there since we live in driving distance, that might be a consideration too?
My mother in law waited about half an hour after my husband moved out to turn it into an office.
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My mum waited about 1 month
I moved home after college and stayed in the “guest room.”
I had everything ready to go for my new, improved, and spacious dressing room / gym before my eldest left.
It was glorious. WAS!!!!
6yrs later and he’s back BUT another few years and the youngest will most likely be off. I’ve already measured up.
My parents waited a few years. I left at 18 after highschool and moved back home exactly two years later. But then when I left again, they changed it. & I moved back a year later to the “spare room” the guest room… (my old room). Had a baby.. now it was my new adult room lol they made my baby their own room. My brother has his doom and my parents. (It was a 4 bedroom house)
My mom kept my room exactly the same until I had my daughter, and then she converted it into my daughters room for when we visit
Meanwhile my MIL changed my husbands room the day he left home.
lol my kids moved out for school (I got them a house to share ) and I sold the big family home and downsized to a 2 bedroom townhouse
My parents waited till about three months after I graduated from college. I still sleep there one day a week but I’m very grateful that I can now have what is their guest room. Honestly though, after college your kid is probably going to take a lot of their stuff with them, so redecorating makes sense. Otherwise the room is gonna feel really empty and picked through.
My dad redecorated my room after I work and move to another city, but it is forever my room, just to make the layout better.
My mom was ripping out carpet as I was moving boxes out