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beachgirl1977
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Are all your rooms completed?
beachgirl1977
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in Parenting
Painted, furniture, decorated, etc?
we moved into a new house last year and are still working on things. It was a brand new house so a blank canvas. We have painted serveral rooms but still have no dining room furniture so that room is white and empty. We have pans to buy furniture but not for a few months. We also need bedroom furniture. We have a mattress and dressers from his grandparents which fit our old bedroom but now we have a bigger room so it looks pretty empty. Like a college apt!! I am so ready for grown up bedroom furniture
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Re: Are all your rooms completed?
No. We have a bedroom that is totally empty. 2 years later. We were going to make it a guest room, but our office has a futon in it that has been our guest room so far. We don't have a HUGE need for a guest room, so now we're rethinking what we might want to do w/ that room. I 'm almost tempted to just keep it empty until DS gets older and let it eventually become his to use as either an office, hangout room, or... whatever.
We'll see.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
We bought a brand new house 3 years ago and we were immediately able to furnish the top 2 floors with existing/new furniture. We went from a 3 bdrm to a 3 bdrm, so we had the bedroom/office furniture. We also went from a 3 level condo to a 2 story w/ unfinished basement, so we actually got rid of some living room furniture. We also already had a kitchen table and chairs but soon replaced that with a new set. We do not have a separate/formal dining room or living room.
However, our yard and basement weren't done. Last fall we finally finished both, and the basement bedroom is sparsely furnished.
ETA: we also decorated with what art we already had. I'd like to work on decor in the future, but our house is as done as it needs to be.
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Getting there. The house was built in April 2005 we just got around to switching out the knobs and hinges from the shiny brass to oiled bronze. P's room is always a work in progress but should be completed soon.
The spare room is just the office right now. Might talk H into putting a fouton in there but we really don't use the space much and we don't have guests.
We do plan on replacing the front door soon.
We moved into our new house 2 weeks before DS2 was born. 5 months later we're still kind of living out of boxes. No curtains either, which is driving me nuts, but it's such a huge decision I don't want to rush it.
We're starting a master bath reno soon which I'm super pumped about. However, we plan for a kitchen reno in about 5 years. It will affect our kitchen, dining room, bathrOom, and laundry room. As such, we don't want to spend TOO much money on curtains, furniture, and stuff to fit the area as it looks NOW.
It's so hard to prioritize. We need a bedroom set, we need curtains, the boys will need a shared big boy room in a few years, we'll hopefully need another nursery in a few years, etc. To do it all would cost thousands, but I hate feeling like our house isn't completed.