Did your parents leave your old bedroom unchanged after you moved out?

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If you were to go to your parents home now

Does anyone still have a bedroom as it was when you used to live there

Not so much as they kept it as a shrine to the good days when you used to live there (like a god 🤣)

More that when you moved out that bedroom was not really used again so was just left as it was

(When I moved out my parents were quick to redecorate)

My room was just used as a guest room. I took everything except the furniture with me when I moved out. My brother left lots of stuff in his and my mum was always trying to get him to have a clear out. My daughter left her room like I did and my son's is still full of junk even though he left to live abroad 6 years ago! There is a definite pattern!

Mine was left as it was and I slept in it when I came home. But it wasn't a teen bedroom to start with - just an ordinary bedroom with my stuff in the wardrobes/chest of drawers. I finally cleaned out the last of it when my mum died. My sister's room became a sort of dressing room because they gave her her bedroom furniture for her son.

When my son moved out we gave him his bedroom furniture. Then I looked at the room and wondered what to do with it. We have a guest room and an office so I just furnished it with the same bedroom furniture and he stays there every now and then. Same with my daughters' rooms although we didn't give them the furniture. Can't imagine them not being their rooms as long as we live here.

@AllTheWatersTurnedToClouds similar here.

Moved out from mum to dad when I was 16 as I stupidly thought I could stop him drinking (I couldn't). Mum decorated within 6 months. Moved out from dad when I was 18 and still in high school as I was pregnant and am unsure when dad redecorated- but he did!

edited to add:- ds26 is still at home and ds21 is away at uni. I have plans for both their rooms- walk in wardrobe and study!!

I’m the parent in this scenario. Before ds even moved out I was in there waving paint charts and tape measures about. It’s my reading room now, my absolute haven.
Ds did say “bloody hell mum, can you wait until I’ve actually gone” he knows how much I love him though and he does have a room when he comes to stay.

Not for very long. After my dad died my mum did not want to use the bedroom they shared and so moved into what had been mine as a child. I use what was the room guests had when I visit.

Similar to my mother. She turned mine into a music room a week after I married.

My parents very kindly gave me free rein to decorate my bedroom as a teen. Unsurprisingly, they were keen to decorate after I moved out (kudos to my dad not complaining once after spending days repainting my dark purple and turquoise walls in cream!). Years later it is now part of my grandmother's little suite and she had my dad redecorate again to meet her tastes (she has not returned to the purple, mind!)

That sounds lovely, I’d really like a room to myself for hobbies.

No, but they pretty much changed it as soon as I moved out into a guest bedroom (for all the guests they have 🫢) they made it look lovely, wished I’d had it like that when I lived there 😂

They changed mine to a wallpaper pattern they really liked and got a new bed/shelves to make it a fancy guest room.

I left home 43 years ago and my parents are still in the family home. My old bedroom has never been decorated since I moved out. It was a tiny back bedroom and appears to be full of boxes of old junk that they are hoarding. They just never bothered with it once I had moved out.

Ditto!
My parents actually followed me across the country about 6mths after I started nursing college. I never needed a bedroom in their new house.

Yep. I’ve now bought the house (need to pay for care) and that room is my dressing room, stuff moved about and some of it revamped but largely my teenage bedroom! I will redecorate but it’s good enough for now.

No they instantly converted it into a second bathroom!

I shared a room and my bed was taken out and the room redecorated by the end of my first term at uni. It was devastating

It’s now my mum’s bedroom as my parents sleep separately and it’s more or less the same except she’s put some nice curtains up and moved some different furniture in. I encourage her to properly redecorate as a dark purple colour scheme isn’t really her style. I hope she makes it into something that suits her.

My parents moved when I was 30 but I don't think they redecorated after I left. I redecorated when I was 16 and I had weirdly middle aged taste so it was pretty usable. However, all my stuff was gone by then- either I took it or they put it in the loft.

Nope.

1. Became a consulting room (therapist).
2. My dad moved into it.
3. Became an office.

All 3 kids bedrooms gone!

When my kids move out we will move. Spare rooms will be a guest room and then an office space.

my parents moved and before that I think my room was left until then. Not long. I never had any intention of moving home.

if my kids want to move home after they’ve left permanently we’d always accommodate them.

@ThatWaryLimePeer I think it’s quite reasonable to convert adult children’s room into offices or hobby rooms tbh. My room was turned into an office; DH’s room was also turned into an office and one of his sister’s rooms is a craft/sewing room mainly used by his Mum. There’s still a bed in the craft room if anyone needs it.

I couldn’t agree more, a room for hobbies sounds bliss.

Ha, ha no. They're hoarders, it was filled with junk within a year and still contains the same junk 30 years later.

Surely that depends on the hobbies………😂

I moved out at 16 and my mum painted my room THE SAME DAY. Literally several hours after id gone she painted over my walls and moved her sewing stuff in to make it her sewing room.