Empty Nesters: When Did Your Kids Move Out of Their Childhood Bedrooms?

Once our son left for boarding school in 2011, he only used his room for summers and holiday breaks, but he still needed it, so I left it alone. We moved to our current home when he was a senior in HS and let him have the privacy of the casita which I decorated in a rowing theme for him. He only used the rooms on holiday breaks as he was never home again during the summer for more than a week or two while at the academy. When he commissioned, the Army moved everything he owned and every stick of furniture from the casita to his first duty post in Georgia. I then turned that empty space into a more appropriate guest suite and “she-shed.” I spend a lot of me-time there. I posted pics of the reno in the Their Room thread which discussed this topic a while back. We also touched on this subject in the Do Your Adult Children have a Bedroom in Your House thread.

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