Has your child ever switched bedrooms?

[rszdtrvl]

We moved into this house when my son was in kindergarten. The rooms are built so one is near the front of the house, and the other two are near the back of the house. It is not a huge house - 1002 sqft.

My son is now in 7th grade, and the room in the front of the house is a bit bigger (not a lot) but will offer him a bit more privacy.

His room currently has cable tv, and there is no wires in the guest room for that, so if he is to keep the tv we will need to make an appt with the cable company.

Has anyone ever had their child switch bedrooms? Is it a major pain? I know we will need to swap everything from one room to another, but was it worth it in the end?

I think he would be a lot happier in the bigger room. We have mentioned it to him before that when he gets older he may move into the "guest room" and out of "his room" and he acted excited about it.

 

[tiggger1]

My daughter is 6 and her room has been moved 3-4 times... She had the small office as her room when she was a baby. It was just big enough for the crib and her bureau. Then we moved her to the larger bedroom when she got older. we started remodeling the house and she moved into our room while the construction began. now she finally has her new room.. but we are thinking we might move her to our old room when we move back into our old room ( its twice the size of our new room..)

 

[mom2boys77]

When we bought our house 4 years ago, we gave our older son the bigger room just because he was older. It started to not make sense because our younger son had many more toys and needed the space. Our boys are 14 and 8 and we were going to have them swap rooms but we had a fire and had to demo that house. The new house our older son just requested the bedroom as far away from us as he can get lol so it ended up he has the smaller room but it works. Do what you think will be best in the long run. Good luck!

 

[Caitsmama]

Ha, since we have lived in our house, (8 1/2 years) -- my dd (9) has switched rooms 5 times!! Lastest was this past weekend!!

I get bored, and i guess she takes after me... I just moved her from first floor to second floor this last weekend.. lots of work, but whatever -- keeps my family on their toes!!

Change is good.

 

[tmarquez]

When my stepson was 14 he changed rooms. We had to put him in a room closer to us so he could have LESS privacy. it wasdn't a fun time...but we got through it.

 

[mickeyfan1]

Change is good.

Folding money is better.

 

[rszdtrvl]

Thanks! I agree about the folding money thing too, LOL.

He is a good kid, so I am not concerned about him getting into trouble or sneaking out the windows. I am a mom, so I don't sleep, LOL.

I talked to DH about it for a minute or so on the phone. Typical DH, no comment.

I will talk to DS later on today about it. Run it by him and see what he thinks about it.

Right now the guest room is housing a twin size bed, 2 bookshelves, a cedar chest (on top of the chest is a HUGE tv), a ton of My Little Ponies, and DH's small Transformer collection. Except the bookshelves, it shouldn't be too horrible to swap stuff around.

 

[golfgal]

If you have a basement or attic where the cable comes in you can find the splitter and just run another cable line yourself. It is very easy to do.

 

[SleepyMom]

We did this a few years ago with youngest DD. Oldest DD moved out to go to college and younger DD took her room because it was bigger.

We didn't have to do anything with phone or cable hook-ups, thankfully they were all there.

We did the move in stages... 1st we moved everything 100% out of the new bedroom. Cleaned the carpets and painted the room. Gave it a few days to dry and air out the smell.

Then we went thru the stuff in the old bedroom and decided what was going to the new room and what wasn't (great way to sort thru stuff!). After the new room was set up she moved into that and then we emptied the old room and cleaned the carpet in there and set it back up as a guest room/sewing room. Had a ton of stuff to donate and give away.

Younger DD loves her room now, it is away from the main part of the house and gives her a bit more privacy than before. The only problem is when older DD comes home for a visit, she's not used to going up to the smaller room upstairs

 

[Snoopymom]

Just thought I'd mention that you might want to get a nightlight for the hallway

We did this when I was a kid, and on the first night mom thought she was headed into the bathroom and fell down the steps.

She didn't get hurt, and we thought it was really funny, still tease her about it when we rent houses in Orlando together.

 

[mjkacmom]

A million times - LOL! So far, dd13 is on her second, ds 12 is on his first, dd9 is on her second, dd7 on her first, ds7 on his second (switched the b/g twins up). It's a great way to get rid of things!

 

[a1tinkfans]

Folding money is better.

My ds had to be "shoved" from his room, the smaller one I wanted it for my home office and had to plug away at him to take the bigger room (literally twice as big) and Finally after much discussion, he did it and LOVES it....so much more room..he just happens to be a kid that is not big into "change"
It worked out perfectly for ALL of us!

 

[Disney-&-Baseball]

The DD just switched rooms a little less that a year ago. She said she wanted to switch rooms so we let her pick paint colors and put in a new floor. Since she was getting older her bed wasn't cutting it either. So she got a total room make over out of the deal using our tax return.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Never thought about it before, but I guess the only time my two did is when we moved.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

My siblings and I did it all the time when we were younger. The bedrooms in our house vary wildly in size, so we'd make deals about who got what room next. When we were really young, my sister and I had the room that I currently have (I still live at home for financial reasons) and my brother had the one next to us. When I got older and wanted my own room, the storage room in the back of the house was turned into another bedroom. The room swaps started a few months after that. Our parents never helped with it, and sometimes they'd come home and we'd have already switched rooms. It was fun for us.

 

[yoopermom]

What we did was this--when DS wanted to move into the bigger bedroom (with no cable) from the small one (with cable), we agreed if HE agreed to make his new bedroom a "quiet" room (aka no technology). Studies have shown that bedrooms should be for sleeping, and that sleep issues often arise from tv/computer/etc use in the same room. So now he sleeps (and reads) in "his" room, and we left the tv in what is now the guest room/study. He feels like he's got "two" rooms, and sleeps better, too!

Terri