Converting a room for family function
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Susan Faivre
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We are considering converting our family room into an entire space dedicated to family function. It would serve as a mud room, homework room, and computer space. We currently have a large living room that goes unused much of the time. This would become our family room. My question is...is this a crazy idea? Doesn't it makes sense to create a space for small areas that currently exist all over the house...bring them together into one functional space? Are family function rooms becoming more common or am I being too radical?
4 answers
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Not crazy at all. Living rooms have been taken over by family multi-purpose rooms all the time. Once the living room was the family room but over time this has changed and living rooms became something of a storage are for furniture that no one sits on. Its not like the room is going away anyway. I say go for it!
Woodbridge Environmental Tiptophouse.com
on Nov 03, 2014
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You can find some great family room ideas here: http://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=multifunction+family+rooms+
Jill Feigelman
on Nov 06, 2014
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The main thing you have to watch out for is if some of the family functions interfere with each other - for example, it might not be great to have the TV going at the same time and place as homework. It might be better to have functions that need quiet in a different place from distracting functions. Other than that, go for it! It makes no sense to have a room that doesn't get used.
Darla
on Nov 10, 2014
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Thanks for the feedback and I completely agree! My thought is to move the TV into the current living room and commit this room to homework and a designated place for book bags, shoes, and sports bags. It would be a work room of sorts. We don't have a mud room so it seems like things end up everywhere. My kids currently use our dining room for homework so this would resolve that. For some reason it seems so radical to completely change the use of an entire room, yet it seems so logical. I'm just tired of trying to create small organized spaces within other rooms. Why not create a room just for organization???
Susan Faivre
on Nov 10, 2014
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