Youve been looking for a home and youve found one that feels almost perfect. The location is convenient and you can picture your family living here happily. Theres a problem, however. One or more pieces of furniture youve had for years just will not fit. Do you buy the home anyway, or keep looking?
Move It?
Suppose the piece of furniture that wont fit is a tall chest-on-chest thats always been in your bedroom. Could you use it in another room? Might it be handsome and useful in the living room or dining room? (Downstairs rooms often have taller ceilings than upstairs rooms.) Could it store games, videos, tablecloths and place mats, and silverware in its new location?
If that thought process takes care of the chest, but youre left without enough storage in the bedroom, what then? Is there a smaller chest of drawers that was used in your old guest room that would fit in your bedroom? What about putting an inexpensive chest of drawers into your walk-in closet?
Give It Away?
Maybe the problem is that you have a bed thats too large for any of the bedrooms in the almost perfect house. Is it a Sheraton tall post field bed with canopy or a massive...