Empty Nest Extra Room Space Redecorating Ideas

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Hall redecoration pt II

Hall redecoration pt II

Empty Nest Extra Room Space Redecorating Ideas

Article by Matt Warmann

Once your youngest child leaves for college, mixed feelings will become more and more apparent, feeling both sad and happy at the same time-sad because your youngest baby is leaving the comfort and safety of your home to venture out into the world, yet happy because you are a proud parent of a promising young adult ready to tackle the world. You also may be glad, because now you will have extra room space to redecorate and refurnish to your liking.

Now I am not suggesting that you pack all of your child’s belongings into boxes and completely forget about them. It may sound a tad shallow to redecorate your children’s rooms immediately after they move out, but it does provide for a healthy remedy to cope with the difficulties of dealing with Empty Nest Syndrome. Empty Nest Syndrome is, simply put, dealing with the emotional, physical, and psychological differences you experience once your child, or children, ultimately leaves home for school or work, usually between the ages of 18 and 23. Even though living in an empty nest has its emotional negatives, it also frees up quite a bit of space in your home, especially if you have more than one room, or an oversized room, with which to work.

Many options come to the surface when thinking about what to do with this newly acquired extra room space. Maybe you would like to turn it into a study, den, or home office. Or maybe you have always desired a small home library and simply didn’t have the extra space necessary until now. Creating a fun and exciting room is also an option. Think about something that revolves around fun but on more of an adult level, such as a poker room or a billiard or pool room. Or how about setting up some drums and turntables if you are musically inclined? Some more popular ideas for converting that empty nest extra space into a fun or relaxing usable area once your child leaves home include:

* Billiard or pool room

* Barroom, with bar, bar stools, pub tables, etc.

* Home movie mini theater

* Music room

* Poker or card room

* Weight room

* Video game room or arcade

* Den or study

* Home office

* Home library

* Scrap booking center

* Spare bedroom

* Workshop area (workbench, tools, etc.)

* Pet playland area

* Extra storage area

Don’t feel down on yourself because you are redecorating your child’s old room once they move out, either. Your life has been consumed by your children for the past 20 years, so you have definitely earned the right to be just a little bit selfish. Most times, your son or daughter won’t even care too much, especially if you do something with the extra room space that they can use, too, during visits back home. For instance, I doubt your son will mind that you changed his bedroom into a billiard room if he can come home on school breaks and shoot some pool with his friends. And your daughter can spend some quality creative time with mom in your new scrapbooking area.

Empty Nest Syndrome can, at often times, be difficult. Many individuals have no idea what to do with themselves once they are childless, as this has been the routine for the past 20 years. Redecorating your son’s or daughter’s old room once they leave home can, however, remedy the situation. In fact, redecorating with something fun or with your grown up children still in mind might even encourage them to return home for future visits more often.

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Redecoration question by Mayamouse: cheap teenage bedroom redecoration?
i want to redecorate my room. i want it to be cheap, but different, and pretty, im not allowed to have a new bed, and my desk is attached to the wall, i love pink and animals, how should i do this?? cheap stores, with pretty stuff is appresiated! i looked at pbteen, cute stuff! but too expensive…. any help here???
stores are appresiated!!!! please no walkmart, kmart, target, etc. i have looked there. but thank you! just be sure they arn’t too expensive! thanks

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Answer by bettany
Any way you could buy a gallon of paint with a pretty color?

It would probably cost about $ 25 dollars plus rollers and brush.

My son has a Vanessa Hudgens poster up on his wall—perhaps a beautiful poster to take you somewhere else in your imagination might be considered here. They only cost about $ 5.00! Unicorns, fairies, whatever you like!

Ribbons on curtains (again really cheap, dollar store stuff) can beautify plain boring curtains.

I saw a cool skateboard shelf in a magazine—I wonder what you have that could be used as some type of wall decoration.

The coolest room in my house is my office. It is Amazon Green! It is dark green almost black. I have one wall that has my favorite books displayed—-I love my picture books, Ireland, Louvre, horses (coffee type table books), resting on shelves. I go right to them when I want them. I get a lot of compliments.

Also, you can hang a few things from the ceiling. My son’s room has glow in the dark stars, he sees them glowing right before he drifts off to sleep.

I made a giant cutout of a moon out of cardboard, put a teddy in its lap and a homemade book for my neice. It hangs from the ceiling in her room in a corner. It was fun painting it’s face. I wrapped ribbon around the string to bring some pink into my piece of art and on the bottom, I took wire and curled it. At the ends there are little cardboard starts painted yellow. Very cheap to make. How about an art collage
made by you of pretty pictures. Or you could put ribbons crisscrossing on a cardboard board and mount you photos of friends in each square. Skies the limit. I could go on and on because I just love art.

Have fun.