We decided that my daughter needed a room of her own and to that end moved two bedrooms around. My middle born son opted to take the living room as his own and so while he was away for the weekend we began.
Let me just say this, I NEVER want to do that again. I couldn't believe how much trouble one "simple little move" could be. I figured no problem simply move a piece of furniture out, vacuum floor, move another piece into it's place and so on. I forgot to anticipate the "stuff" that accumulates in a bedroom when you aren't looking. The clothes, games, the figurines and stuffed toys and books. The laundry that almost got mixed in with the clean stuff.
Oh and trying to separate two different people who were sharing a room was a terror. My daughter opted for the expedience of grabbing a bin and shoving everything off a shelf into the bin.....literally. The bin was then moved out the door and down to the dining room.
We might be poor but we certainly did accumulate a lot of clutter. In the end to give my son some sense of "my room" in the living room, I moved all my craft and art supplies and even my bookshelves into my bedroom. There is still a shelf out there, but it is all books related to that particular area of the building LOL. I have all my fiction books and so forth here now. I even dropped the old futon mattress onto my floor to use as a comfortable way to do my work during the day.
Picture hanging fell to my spouse. It isn't his favorite job, but he does it anyway. The worst part of this is, when he and I traded sides of the bed, he re-hung the wall shelves, then a week later I said "hey lets change rooms" poor guy looked so unhappy. I'm happy to report though that he did in fact move all the pictures around and now everything looks great. It feels less cluttered than it did in my other room in spite of all the 'extras" around. (yep those are puzzles on the walls)
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