When you left home , what did your parents do with your bedroom?

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

My mom turned it into her second closet complete with rolling garment racks. The room wasn't overly large anyways. Prior to us moving into the home the room was used as an office by the prior homeowner.

 

[Diznotyzed]

My parents sold our house and moved back to their hometown late winter of the year I graduated from high school. They bought a smaller house, so I got to keep 1/2 of the bunk bed I shared with my younger sister . I got to stay with my older sister and finish school.

 

[luvsJack]

Mom and Dad’s house was originally 4 bedroom. Two rooms shared a wall and one shared a wall with a bathroom. When everyone but me had married and moved out, they took down the wall and made one big bedroom and redid the bathroom so the door was in my bedroom.

When I married, my bedroom was converted to a family room.

Dd will our last to completely move out. Right now it’s still her room exactly as she left it. When/if she marries, the plan is for it to be a guest room/grandkids room. The other bedroom, that was ds’s, is storage right now but hoping to make it a play room for the dgd’s I wish we could do like they did with mine and make it one big room but the bathroom is between them. We should have thought that out when we built I guess.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

Lol The good ole days when parents used to kick us out.

People still do that.

We had a young lady live with us because her family kicked her and her baby to the curb.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

People still do that.

We had a young lady live with us because her family kicked her and her baby to the curb.

Ugh, I was living in fantasy world where I assumed, in this day and age, it was considered frowned upon to kick out your pregnant teenage daughter, or any child who didn't tow the line and conform.

Bless people like you who take in women like this young lady and her baby.

 

[mamamary]

Guest bedroom

 

[powellrj]

My younger brother got it. My mom made his room her sewing room.

 

[bcwife76]

My mom turned it into a den/sitting room/tv room. About an hour after I had finished moving my stuff!

8 months later I had to move back home (was temporary, I moved out again less than 3 months after that) and she made me move into the guest bedroom instead of my old room.

 

[indimom]

It stayed a bedroom and didn't change much for years (but I had a sister who lived there for about four years after I left. Eventually, it did get a refresh and all our teenage belongings were removed, so its a basic guest room now. My mom keeps her sewing machine in there and uses the room for small sewing projects also.

I have no plans to change bedrooms into anything else when my two (20 and 18) move out. We have enough living space I don't really need to take over bedrooms. So, they can store their things in there until they have a place of their own.
If we can find what we want, we plan to move into our retirement home in the next few years... at that point, their rooms and belongings will probably get packed up or passed on to them and any extra bedrooms in the new house will just be basic guest rooms.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

It stayed my bedroom until they moved out of the house.

 

[momabbate]

My mom moved around to much to after I moved out. As for when my kids moved out. I took the smallest room and turned it into big pantry, it is right next to kitchen. Now I have room for all the small appliances I want. The second room is a storage room so I don't have to lug stuff up and down stairs. Third room is still a bedroom for who ever needs it. Right now my oldest is back living at home. Now our family room, down in basement has turned into a big suite for hubby and me.

 

[NHdisneylover]

My parents sold the house and moved to Mexico.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I took the smallest room and turned it into big pantry, it is right next to kitchen. Now I have room for all the small appliances I want.

cool!

 

[mnrose]

Not sure where my mind is, but every time I see this post, I read it as "what did your parents do IN your bedroom?" LOL. And, that I don't even want to think about.

In seriousness, I shared a room with my two sisters when I left for college. They simply took it over. And, eventually it became just my younger sister's bedroom. Then, storage. It was an upstairs bedroom and cold as hell because the only heat was a floor vent (big one) through which the heat (and noise) from the living room came up. And, not well.

 

[Hopscotch]

My parents had another baby the same weekend I left for college so he took over my room.

 

[DisneyHardin]

Our house had a finished basement family room, but we never used it, so at some point I had moved all my stuff into there and made the big family room my bedroom. When I moved out, it was just nothing except storage for the furniture I didn't take with me.

 

[tvguy]

Nothing changed, other than put a few trinkets that my mom got from her trips to the Casinos.....used playing cars, pocket flashlights, combs...etc....in what used to be my sock drawer in the dresser.
My posters were still up on the walls, my 1964 Encyclopedias were still on the book shelf as were my books from College, same red shag area rug. My Little League trophy from 1968 still there. Same beds, 2 twins. Art projects from school, still there. High School Student ID, college Student ID, Dining Hall ID still in the dresser.
My mom passed away 31 years after I moved out and my wife just looked at me and commented that I was the last person to sleep in that room and bed. Guests always stayed in the other bedroom since it has a queen sized mattress.
But my mom lived alone in that house for 30 years and basically lived in the Family room Kitchen and her bedroom. Even when my dad was alive and I was still living at home, I bet in 53 years they owned that house, the Living room got used for Christmas Day morning and maybe a few dozen other days. Which explains why the 63 year old couch, chairs, coffee table and end tables that my parents moved from the seldom used Living room in their previous house look brand new when I sold them. The coffee table and end tables are now sitting, largely unused, in MY Living room. With any luck decades from now.....they will end up in one of my children's Living rooms!

 

[SC Minnie]

It still is a bedroom and has my same furniture in it. My parents did build a new house my freshman year of college so the house is not the same one I grew up in. I only lived there on breaks. When I moved back home for awhile after graduating I moved into the basement apartment instead of my old bedroom.

 

[Kitty 34]

I shared a room with my sister so when I moved out she got the whole room.

 

[prprincess]

It was turned into a nursery for my niece. I lived with my mom until I was 26--paid her rent and for utilities, food, etc. But once my sister announced she was pregnant, I figured it was time for me to go!