Does entertaining stress you out?

conmama
Tue, 05 Apr 2016 22:17:45 +0000

Another reason I don’t like to entertain is the layout of my house. It was built in 1972 and all the rooms are separated. No one uses a living room anymore. We remodeled our kitchen 16 years ago, but made the mistake of not knocking out walls to make it really big, for a nice huge island. We have no island now either, and there is just no room. People like to congregate in the kitchen and there really is nothing for them to stand against unless it’s my kitchen counters, but that is do awkward with me needing my kitchen. No one ever goes into other rooms it seems. At this point I don’t know how long we will stay in this house, and are less than 3 years from paying it off. I just really don’t want more debt.

We’ve been slack in redecorating the FR and it’s really outdated, so that embarrasses me now, too. I think we would entertain more if I was more proud of my house I suppose, and it had a flow that was better for company. It’s actually a nice size square footage on the main level, but these old houses…grrrr.