So I know most of us moving Bees are fast unpackers, but what about decorating?
Our new house has double the bathrooms and two rooms for the girls (plus a combined bedroom and office for us). I feel like there's no way for us to put the kind of time and money into decorating that would make our house into exactly what we want.
Are you having to delay some of your decorating too?
pomegranate / 3809 posts
Definitely. We moved in about 2 years ago, and I'm just now getting to decorating the bathrooms and dining room. Our living room took us about a year to get it decorated to the point that it looks complete.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Absolutely! I've been in my house for a year and only a couple rooms feel finished. I'll be decorating and renovation for years probably. Our master bathroom looks exactly like it did the day we moved in. We even have the previous owner's night light still plugged in.
blogger / pomelo / 5400 posts
Haha. ... sometimes I decorate before I unpack. I can't stare at blank walls!
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@Leialou: Isn't it funny what you can adjust to? After 2 years we finally have our little house totally dialed in. Now it feels kind of daunting to start all over with almost double the square footage.
The only thing we're planning on doing right away is painting our bedroom because I refuse to live in a yellow room. Other than that I'll just have to stare at things and dream.
I get a new play room to theme and a new nursery to decorate... but it'll be spring by the time I can get to it all!
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
Yup, we moved from a 1 bed apt to a 5 bed house. We still don't have things the way we want 4 years later. I think it's nice to accumulate things over time rather than just doing some binge decorating. We are going to be in this house for the long haul so we think it's fine to take our time.
cherry / 147 posts
I kind of feel the same way, @Mrs. Jacks. We plan to move into a new house 4X larger than our last place. I have a feeling we'll be there for awhile so I don't want to rush decorating all the rooms.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@808love: Thanks! We're nervous and thrilled.
@serendipity: When are you moving?
GOLD / pear / 1845 posts
@Mrs. Yoyo: me too! I was the kid putting photos on my wall for a week at summer camp, I don't feel right if I haven't decorated.
pomelo / 5331 posts
Yep! It takes time and gobs of money to get things just right and I didn't want to rush into buying stuff that wasn't exactly perfect. We needed to paint because even though the house was remodeled they did all the rooms in a contractor beige with cheap paint. Took us 6 months to get around to that and we're still slowly finding furniture and art and stuff. It's a process, then when it's all decorated I'll want to change everything!
coconut / 8430 posts
Yup we have lived in our place for 3 years and still haven't furnished and decorated our formal dining and living room. We will get to it eventually!
pomegranate / 3160 posts
Ugh, we're just starting to look at houses, thinking of moving early next year, and I'm already dreading the whole redecorating process...painting...trim...noooooo!
persimmon / 1453 posts
I can see it taking a long time to get our house to where we want it to be. But I'm pretty happy about that, honestly! Where's the fun in having everything done at once? 
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
We've been in the new house for a year and we've done nothing yet. I have plans to paint the bathroom, bedroom and living room this winter.
honeydew / 7687 posts
Yes.. we'll be in a new place come 2013 and hopefully it'll be our first house. There is no way I'll get everything the way I want in a hurry with a newborn and my husband in a new job - so I'll have to be patient! We've moved each year for the past few, I typically try to have at least one "familiar" thing on the walls in each room and then go from there.Sometimes it takes me a little while to decide where to start depending on what is bugging me the most!
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
Lo is 14 months. We moved when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant. And we still don't have our living room decorated 
Its this big awkward space with high ceilings and I just cant decide what I want to do with it. I personally don't think it looks bad as it is, we have a big tv in there and yellow walls so there is color and something there. Eventually I think ill fill it with lots of pictures, old and new, in colorful frames. I'm just overwhelmed by the space!
The rest of the house is done though.
grapefruit / 4800 posts
We're scavengers for the moment since we don't have a big budget. So our house is a mixture of craigslist, garage sales, and hand me downs when friends or family were remodeling. So it's also constantly evolving, if we see something we like we'll get it. We moved this summer and have just had a big push the last couple weekends for some painting and some decorating.
When we've moved before it always worked best to do a lot of the painting/floor finishing before the move but we weren't able to do that this time. Our walls still need a bit more though.
It might be good to have lots of open space while they're little and just running around.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Can't wait to see how beautiful the new home will be once you're done with it!
We've been here over three years and the decor part is STILL a work in progress. There's rooms that are completely finished and there's rooms that just never get thought of because we use them frequently/functionally!
And now with LO on the way, I have NO doubt that the nursery will be the last room to get any sort of extra attention!
pomelo / 5178 posts
... We're still not done with our current house, and we've been here for 3+ years...
I figure our next house will be our "forever" house, so we can take our time decorating. We'll probably do the kids' rooms first, then move on to the common areas of the house. We've got lots of time to figure it out, though, because we're not moving again after this!
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