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Post by hopemax on Jul 7, 2020 21:37:54 GMT
My room stayed the same until my parents moved out of that house. Of course, I still have a room in the new house that my Dad has lived in for 14 years now. The dressers are still the same, and I have drawers that are just mine, and DH has a drawer too. My Dad lives in the Orlando area, so it's a lot of stuff for visiting theme parks. The Disney art on the wall is the stuff, is the themes I collect. And the room is "Hope's Room," not the "Guest Room" even if other people occasionally sleep there.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 7, 2020 22:01:04 GMT
Mine kept it the same until I graduated from college. Two months later I was married. It changed some after that and I was fine with it.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 7, 2020 22:04:29 GMT
Before I left I boxed up the stuff I wanted and my sister moved into my room. My brother broke into my boxes and stole all my albums and anything he wanted probably as I was pulling out of the driveway.
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Post by MadamG2U on Jul 7, 2020 22:06:36 GMT
My younger brother moved into my room and his room became a guest room. Guess who was the guest when I stayed over
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Post by cycworker on Jul 7, 2020 22:08:06 GMT
Mine basically still hasn't changed. Well, there's a crib in one corner. I should get a picture one day. The room is very large - it was initially built to possibly have to little kitchen area just in case I couldn't find accessible housing. Secretly my parents just wanted me to stay forever.
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Post by Dallie on Jul 7, 2020 22:17:01 GMT
I moved out two years after high school (lived at home while going to community college first) and the MINUTE I moved out, my mom converted my room to her sewing/craft room. As an adult, I can see that is was an okay thing to do but as a kid (20 year old), I hated coming home for holidays and having to sleep on the couch. It made me sad not to have my own room any more AND it made me sad that I felt this was her way of telling me that I didn't live there any more. I kept our girl's bedrooms the same when they moved out for college. I wanted them to have a safe place to come back to. They've been on their own for ten years and seven years respectively and I just (two years ago) turned one of the rooms in to an office and redecorated the other for a nice guest room. The girls teased me that it was about time! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) A coworker changed her daughter's room into a sewing room the day after the daughter left for college. I remember her telling us now upset her daughter was to come home for Thanksgiving and only then find out her room was gone and she had to sleep on the couch. Thereafter, she stayed with friends when she came to her hometown for the holidays because she felt unwanted. It didn't help that her brother's room was left untouched even thoughhe had moved out two years before.
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 7, 2020 22:21:23 GMT
After I started college I went back for the summer between Freshman and Sophomore year and my room was still my room. My mom remarried after that and moved into her new husband’s house. I never went back home after that, besides a holiday visit or two.
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Post by finsup on Jul 7, 2020 22:27:34 GMT
It's a family joke that I'm in my 50s but my mom always had a room called "Becky's room" even two houses later, one of which I never lived in full-time and one that I not only never lived in but never slept in. I loved teasing her about that, but I realize I am my mother's daughter because I moved into my current house when my youngest was in college and they've never lived here but I still call a bedroom their room.
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Post by walkerdill on Jul 8, 2020 2:20:37 GMT
I didn't move out until I was 22 & had a kid. Her dad & I bought our first home. My mom converted my room into a kids playroom. It was a given I wouldn't be coming back.
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jul 8, 2020 2:36:42 GMT
It was a mobile home, double wide.
I had to share a room, so when I moved out my sister had her own room. When all of us were gone, they converted the two smaller sized front bedrooms to one big bedroom and added a wall so the bathroom became a part of the new big bedroom. Making it go from a three bedroom, two bath....to a two bedrooms, two bathrooms, suite style. Looking back, I don't know how two of us shared such a small room.
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Post by whipea on Jul 8, 2020 2:42:26 GMT
My sister had a cool cabana room with it's own entrance, accessible from the patio or garage only. I moved in the second she left. After I graduated high school, I moved out to work, attend college and have my own place. Home life was good, but really just wanted my own place and ended up buying my first little house at 19 years old. My father, an avid snorer moved into my old room and my sister's then my room remained unused until my parents sold the house.
Funny thing, I still have my bedroom furniture I picked out when I was 11 years old, it is in my guest room. I grew up on the water, loved boats so it is nautical theme, darker wood, aged bronze hardware with nautical maps backing roped trimmed shelves. I have had that furniture for over fifty years!
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Post by tenacious on Jul 8, 2020 2:43:56 GMT
I moved out less than a week after I graduated High School, and my parents kept my room exactly the same until we sold their house about 7 years ago. I was 43 at the time.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Jul 8, 2020 2:47:53 GMT
Mine was turned into my Dad's music room where he and his Duo partner would practice. It stayed like that until my Dad divorced my Mom and she then turned it back into a bedroom/office. I always stay in it when I visit.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jul 8, 2020 2:48:08 GMT
DH and I went on a 2 week honeymoon and when I got back my bedroom had been converted into mom's sewing room. That room was never really "my" room because dad was transferred and they moved in that house just 8 months before I got married. Because I was away at college, I only lived in that room for 2 months. It really wasn't a big deal.
DH's mom kept his room as a shrine to him until she passed away. It was weird sleeping in there when we would visit. The worst was that when his dad had central a/c and heat installed, DH must have been in some Daniel Boone phase and refused to have it in his room. I hated sleeping in there during the winter because it was so cold!
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Post by Butterfly Momma on Jul 8, 2020 3:05:20 GMT
My story definitely isnt cut and dry. Backstory, my birth father built my childhood home. He was killed when I was a child. My mother remarried and wanted to sell our home and start again. My new/adoptive dad told her he felt that I had had enough change in my life and that they would sell when I graduated from high school (I'm an only child) and build a new, smaller home together.
I moved over 1500 miles away to go to university and could only come home at Christmas and summer. My childhood home sold between Christmas of my first year in university and when I came home for the summer. I left at Christmas from the only home I'd ever known and returned to a rental home, while my parents home was being built. I remember that summer being a bit hard and while I loved my parents new home, when I saw it that next Christmas, it was never "my" home, if that makes sense?
ETA - I just remembered this part - my mom sold all of my bedroom furniture in that span of time between Christmas and the end of my first university year. And didnt tell me til I came home that summer and couldnt figure out why there was antique furniture in my bedroom in the rental home. Then she admitted that she figured I'd never live with them again (I was barely 18 at the time) so she sold my furniture and had bought the antiques for her new spare room. 😮🤣
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Post by iowagirl50147 on Jul 8, 2020 3:11:28 GMT
Unbeknownst to me, my younger brother was moving into my room before I even got out of the driveway when I left for college. Not a peep was said about it until I came home on break. He met me in the doorway with his arms crossed and I was informed this was his room now. Everything of mine had been moved into his old room. Everything but the furniture, bed, chest of drawers and dresser. Little snot!!! By the time I was out of college, he had moved out. I moved "my" bedroom furniture into my first apartment. I still have that furniture in my extra bedroom. I loved/love that set.
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Post by epeanymous on Jul 8, 2020 4:08:44 GMT
I came home from college the first summer to find that my parents had sold their house and moved into a condo. They did at least get a two-bedroom condo so that I had a place to stay ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/OrTI4SBmZ2ZYSFv6ag4f.jpg) . I never came for more than a visit after that summer (although my college winter break was five weeks, so I was glad they got a place where I could make a long visit). If/when my oldest leaves for college, the next kid down gets their room, which is enormous, and they will have a smaller bedroom to stay in when they are here.
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Post by darkchami on Jul 8, 2020 4:34:58 GMT
During my last year of college, my mom turned my room into her sewing room. I was going to be married that summer, so she changed my room before I officially moved out. In April of that year my fiancé died. It was a pretty horrific time for me. My fiancé and I lived together. His family came to get his things the morning after he died. I had to spend the day he died going through his things and packing.
When I talked to my mom about moving home she told me I couldn’t have my room back. I could stay in the guest room. It broke me. I needed something familiar that was mine. My dad must’ve intervened, because when I returned, my room was waiting for me.
Once I got my feet underneath me again and moved out on my own, it didn’t bother me when my room was converted back into a sewing room.
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Post by caangel on Jul 8, 2020 5:07:31 GMT
I lived at school during college, came back after, lived there for 2.5yrs (DH and I got engaged and he lived there for 1.5yrs) then bought a house, moved back after 8yrs with a family of 4 while we gutted and added a second story to our house.
My brother moved back in after college (2yrs after me, so there was a few months of overlap), his fiance moved in after a couple of yrs, they bought a house, but moved back as a family of 4 about 3-4 yrs later due to the housing market collapse (not while we were there), stayed a couple of years and bought a dump that my dad and bro heavily renovated to be their forever home.
Our rooms have evolved over time, no drastic changes all at once but that was mostly due to the fact that my parents have a big house with 6 bedrooms so there was no need to take over newly vacant space. They still live in the same house with just the two of them. For now it works great for them as they love hosting family (none live here) and friends who visit So Cal.
Unfortunately all the bedrooms are on the 2nd floor and there is only a powder downstairs so it isn't home where they can age in place if their health declines.
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Post by MaryMary on Jul 8, 2020 5:54:39 GMT
With all my siblings, as soon as someone left for college a younger kid moved into that room. No rooms were just left empty waiting for college kids to come home.
That’s basically the reality for my own kids, once they’re gone it’s not their room anymore. Someone younger that was sharing a room moves in instead.
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Post by worldwanderer75 on Jul 8, 2020 6:24:49 GMT
My parents just moved out of the family home I grew up in a few years ago (I'm in my 40s) and left all the bedrooms essentially the same as when we moved out. They eventually put queen sized beds in the rooms as my siblings got married and changed the paint and bedding a few times. But all our memorabilia from HS and college stayed on the shelves until they sold the house. My oldest is heading to college in a year and my youngest child will move into his room since she has shared a room for her entire life (10 years) and both my younger kids are ready for their own rooms.
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Post by sueg on Jul 8, 2020 7:49:14 GMT
I was the oldest of 7 kids, and one of 3 girls. When I left home, my 2 sisters just had a bit more space in the room we all shared. I am fairly sure it remained that way until my dad sold the house and moved, when I was about 26 and all of us kids had finished school and left home.
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Post by koontz on Jul 8, 2020 8:14:33 GMT
My parents moved before I did ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) . Actually, when my parents decided to move I thought it was a good moment for me to leave home. So most of the furniture from my old bedroom (some handmade by my dad) moved with me to my new apartment.
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Post by maryannscraps on Jul 8, 2020 11:38:01 GMT
Although I went away to college, I was home for breaks and summers, and my room stayed mine. I got married two weeks after graduating, and my room eventually was repainted and all my stuff moved out and it became the guest room. It was a few years before they got around to that, though. My parents didn't need the room for anything else, and my sisters were both happy staying in their own rooms. My mom just sold the house a few years ago -- after 50 years of owning it.
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Post by lisae on Jul 8, 2020 11:42:28 GMT
My mother pulled the wallpaper down from my room the day I moved out. She's not sentimental and she never liked the blue and yellow floral wallpaper I'd chosen. She told me that I could take anything from my room I wanted when I moved so I took almost all the furniture. I still have the bedroom suite in my guestroom/craft room today. It is wonderful storage.
So she bought all new furniture, put in new carpet, new wallpaper, had window treatments made. She even changed the light fixtures. I don't remember how long it took her, a few weeks at most. There is nothing at all about the room that reminds me of when I lived there.
The one wish is that I'd taken photos of the room when I lived at home. It was very pretty and a little funny how much stuff I had crammed into the space including a sewing table. Reminds me of my craft room/guest room today how I maximize ever inch.
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Post by Country Ham on Jul 8, 2020 11:47:25 GMT
My room just became the spare room. Before I moved out we never had an empty room. Well some call them a guest room.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jul 8, 2020 11:54:04 GMT
No, I shared with siblings.
In fact, I think I had an apartment 2 weeks before I even told my mom!
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Post by mich5481 on Jul 8, 2020 12:36:05 GMT
We moved into my parents' current home just before I turned 13 and my older brother's senior year of high school. I was so excited about the house because I finally had my own bathroom after years of sharing with my 3 brothers.
When my older brother left for college, my youngest brother moved from the room he shared with my middle brother into my older brother's room. I think he started the move as my parents and older brother were backing out of the driveway. 😂
Midway through high school, my grandfather moved in, about a year after my grandmother passed away. My parents converted a downstairs den into his room - it had a closet, and they put the bed in front of the French doors that connected the room to the formal living room. It had a semiprivate bath, as it had a connecting door to the hall bath that also had access to the backyard (a staple of FL homes that have a built in pool). I remember my mom would hang a little sign on the door in the bathroom that connected to his room that said "private" whenever they would have parties, as that was also the guest bath.
When I left for college, I told my parents not to touch my room, as I wanted it to be a shrine. I'm not spoiled, at all. 😂 They pretty much left it for me, which was good as I typically had long breaks from school.
When my middle brother left for college, my parents donated all of the furniture in the room and he came home to a mattress on the floor. At some point, they moved the twin sized mattress into my youngest brother's room, so they could turn the middle brother's room into an office for my dad. He still uses the kitchen table a lot, but at least he has an office. 🤷♀️
When my youngest brother left for college, his room became the room for all of the boys to use. I think there were a few times all three stayed in there.
I know I shared my room (it had two twin beds) a few times with my brothers' girlfriends before they married my brothers.
After my grandfather passed away, they turned his room back into a den. That is, until my youngest brother decided his fiancee shouldn't have to share a room with me when she visited before they got married. 🙄 My parents moved in a queen sized bed, and redid the closet. That room is usually the first one up for grabs, as it is the only bedroom with a tv in it.
When I finally graduated from college, my parents redid the carpeting upstairs (where my room and my brothers' rooms were), and I came home for Thanksgiving to find they had painted my room a bright sunshine yellow. I hate yellow, and they knew that. It was there not so subtle way of telling me my room was no longer my own. I really haven't spent much time in it since then, but it annoys me that is it yellow. I took the most of the furniture when I bought my house, and I still have it. My parents donated the desk and chair years ago (I had hardly ever used it, even when I was in school), and I left the twin headboards behind as well.
TLDR: my youngest brother and I are the most spoiled of the bunch.
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Post by workingclassdog on Jul 8, 2020 14:28:24 GMT
My mom remarried and moved into his house when I was a couple of months into my freshman year of college so I lost my house and my room. However, I had at least 6 different rooms over 3 different houses from the time I was born and moved into the dorms so it wasn't the worst thing. And honestly, I felt more at home in my Mom's house during my college years (and beyond) than my Dad's house...and I lived in that house from age 4-12. When I posted I posted about the last bedroom that I had... I think growing up I might have had at least 20 different bedrooms, so yeah it was no big loss to me.. although the last bedroom I had was my ALL time favorite. Two windows with window seating, a huge closet, not walk-in but deep and lots of space in it. The bedroom itself was huge.. a double bed, two dressers, one of those big round wicker chairs.. I can't remember the name but a Pier One goodie that everyone had to have, my cedar chest and still room to spare. I loved that room, but then again, the house caught fire anyways, everything was redone and that was that. I really never moved back in, but just stayed the night here and there.
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Post by paigepea on Jul 8, 2020 14:32:51 GMT
I moved out at 26 when I got married. My room is similar. It’s a guest room but it now has a computer desk. It’s fine. My girls sleep in there when they stay over. It was a wonderful room.
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