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What To Do With A Room After Your Kids Move Out
What To Do With A Room After Your Kids Move Out
What to do their empty room?
You’re baby boy got the boot. Or, just went to university. Whatever the situation, when your child leaves the home, that needed real estate becomes something new again. It starts as an empty space which needs to be used. The question remains, what will you use it for? Too often people will call the room an office, but find a way to lie to their intentions by stockpiling lose items from around the house in that space. Before you know it, that room has taken on the personality of a dirty bib. Don’t dirty bib that open space. Instead turn it into something useful. Make the space functional and follow through with its intended purpose.
Think creatively
There are lots of people who will tell you to ask yourself this question: What can you put in that room that will both improve you and the home ownership function? We think this question is outlandishly boring. Although you may want to use the spare room for a mini-gym, an office space or a guest room, think outside the norm… Make a list of your favorite things and cast away your traditional ideas for a while. Here are a few suggestions we have in mind for your new room:
- A shrine room for bacon
- An impressive taxidermy collection
- A costume room
- A 1930s style speakeasy corner room
- A painting studio
- A library of books with a life-size wax Dumbo sculpture in the middle of the room
None of these may have rung your bell, but it might give you insight to the possibilities. People who have an empty room tend to never re-purpose the room in a way that benefits or excites the home in anyway. If you can walk into one room and feel like you’re in Paris and the next like you’re in a the MOMA, that’s an interesting endeavor that you and visitors will feel made the room effective or useful in some way. Guest rooms are perfectly fine. Likely your child will come back one day for a visit and need to rest their head. There are pieces of furniture that can compromise with space and theme. That should be the least of your worries.
