I’m all about furniture rearranging. Love it. Winter, spring, summer, fall. I move furniture around in rooms just for a change of scenery, to create a breath of fresh air in a room that has gotten predictable and stagnant.
But recently I’ve been challenged on a bigger scale. Why does the furniture in a certain room have to stay in that room?
This has mainly come into play as I set up our homeschooling space for this fall. I’m trying my best to set up a learning space without having to buy even one piece of new furniture.
A bookshelf in the study could easily be a craft shelf (think baskets on the shelves to hide and organize small items). A desk in the office can easily become a vanity — with a coat of white paint and a pretty mirror. A wing-back in a forgotten about living room could be brought into the kitchen to create a cozy coffee spot.
I recently moved an entertainment center/armoire into our daughter’s room; it now serves as a toy cabinet.
(We put large baskets for stuffed animals where the television is supposed to go.)
My husband is currently upfitting an antique radio cabinet (that I scored at a yard sale 7 years ago for just $35) into a fully-functioning entertainment cabinet for our den.
And it’s a running joke that the very first piece of furniture we bought as a married couple, a $119 dollar kitchen cart on wheels, has lived in every single room in our house at one point or another (minus the bathroom).
When making any kind of room change — whether turning a baby room into a big-kid room or converting a playroom into a teen’s hang-out den — think beyond the furniture already in the room. Look in other rooms for pieces that may work better elsewhere. Let go and be creative! You’ll be amazed at what you can achieve without having to pay a cent.
Repurposing furniture works for me!
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Christy (1 year ago)
I do this too, my kitchen hutch has been in many many rooms – and that is just one piece of furnature. My mom is the queen of moving furniture. We used to joke that you would go to school and when we got home whole rooms had been moved. Living rm in dining room, dining room in family room, family room in basement, someones bedroom in living room etc.