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[quote=Anonymous]We have done it gradually, room by room. The dining room set was the first keep piece from my townhouse because I figured it made more sense to save and get what I wanted versus spending $1000 easy on an interim dining room and chairs.  Once the kids were around 4 and 5, I didn't want the first room you see in the house to look like a daycare center ( I can hear Candice Olson as she would makeover the living room to be both chic and child friendly).  Also, any previous furniture we had wasn't really optimized for the space.  Basically, the room wasn't stylish, we had kid sh%% everywhere with no place to put it, and didn't have enough storage for our stuff and the scaling of the furniture was off. There is no way I could wait 10 more years to upgrade the room.

We are waiting before we update the basement because it gets the heaviest use from the kids.  This is the one room where we will wait until the kids are older, maybe middle school, before we take out carpet and redo the flooring with a laminate, replace the couch and cheap coffee table, take down the paneling and awful built-in etc.  Besides this being the room where we don't have to worry about anything other than the tv, we realize that our needs for this room change with their age.  Not many toys to store nor do we need carpet in middle school.[/quote]

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