To not want to give up Narnia?

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When DD was a toddler I created a Narnia in her room. Basically there was an adjoining room from her bedroom, I removed the door, put a wardrobe on either side, and made the other room into Narnia. It has snowy woodland painted on all the walls, a bookcase, cushions on the floor and is basically a “snug”. DD adores in still and is always in there.

DH now wants to get rid of Narnia and turn it into a storeroom for DDs stuff. This is totally unnecessary as we have 3 other spare bedrooms as well as a cellar.

DD wants to keep Narnia. DH thinks it’s babyish and a waste of space as her bedroom is already a big room.

His issue is that his kids don’t have stuff like this at their mum’s house but that’s not mine or DDs fault is it?!

What do you think?

Oooh I have an understair cupboard that adjoins my child's room through a little plaster board room and I'm desperate to make it into a Harry Potter snug "cupboard under the stairs" type thing. Your snug sounds amazing.

The answer here is very simple, tell your partner to get his finger out of his arse, ask his kids if they want to decorate their rooms at your house and sort it out. If they're teens I doubt they'd want anything too controversial. The answer isn't to take away from your daughter to alleviate his guilt.

Me too!!!
Do not get rid.
It would be like getting rid of the Mona Lisa

Imagine being able to show your future grandchildren their mother's Narnia room! Now imagine your DD being told that her father/stepfather says she can't have her Narnia room any more and it has to go.
If your daughter ever wants to change it, then that's different, but that room seems to be really important to her. Let her keep that.

This sounds amazing, I am 44 and would love a Narnia room. Keep it!

Urgh what a meanie. Did he eat all the Turkish delight?

Do his other kids actually care. Or is this all about him?

Keep Narnia.

I want a Narnia!

Also, desperately hope your daughter is called Lucy?!

Do what you and your DD want. Its her room at the end of the day and you made the lovely wardrobe idea.
Let him decorate the other rooms. As he cant be arsed thats down to him. He can't destroy your DD's decor just to "even things up".

#TeamNarnia

I would like this and I am 70.

Never give up on Narnia.

What age is she? obviously if she's 25 maybe have a think 🤣

The DD's age seems rather pertinent here but the OP seems unwilling to divulge it.

He just feels guilty that his kids don’t have the same at their mum’s house. If I were you, I’d acknowledge that guilt because it’s a valid feeling. However, let him know that just because his kids can’t have the same at their mum’s house, it’s no reason why your DD can’t have Narnia. Maybe compromise and make sure that his kids rooms are decorated really nicely, to their taste, for when they come to stay.

Narnia all the way as far as I'm concerned..... there's too little magick in the world and things created with love are precious.

I'm 54, I am at work in my shop, actually dressed as a witch so this is how seriously I take it....

Also #TeamNarnia 🥰

Your Dh is a knib.
I want this room. It sounds amazing.

You have space he is being miserable

No it doesn't. I'm 50 and would love to have a Narnia bedroom!

OP, tell your DH to stop being a fucking misery.

Team 'Narnia forever' here too!
What a brilliant idea.

Why would you ever grow out of having something so special done for you?
She'll want to show it to her own children one day.

Just tell him it is something to consider AFTER he has decorated the other two double rooms used by his children. (Sounds like that will be well into the long long grass.)

I feel like I would appreciate this as an adult more than as a child even. I want a Narnia!

He sounds horrible and absolutely joyless. Trying to take away something your Dd likes just because his other (now older teen) kids didn’t have it. Really mean spirited of him.

Making a whole room into a storeroom seems like the waste of space here, not your lovely magical creation for your Dd.

Keep it forever.

This is a room for all time - I think it will shape your daughter's life! A little reading haven now, a study to hole up in later, what could be better.

This is amazing!!! Please post some photos!!! And of course she should keep her Narnia room and he probably should have decorated his kids bedrooms
When they were younger!!!

My DS's bedroom has a door into family bathroom ... wondering if I can get rid of bathroom and turn it into Narnia!!

Please post a picture

It sounds absolutely amazing. You get rid of it and you're contributing towards depriving your DD of her special beautiful place that you made with love purely because your DH can't be arsed to decorate his own children's rooms. He's trying to punish you for being a better parent than he is.

Not if she still wants it. I would like that for myself.