Converting a room for family function
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Woodbridge Environmental Tiptophouse.com on Nov 03, 2014Not 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!Helpful Reply
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Jill Feigelman on Nov 06, 2014You can find some great family room ideas here: http://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=multifunction+family+rooms+Helpful Reply
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Darla on Nov 10, 2014The 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.Helpful Reply
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Susan Faivre on Nov 10, 2014Thanks 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???Helpful Reply
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