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Found the Perfect Home –

But Furniture Won’t Fit!

You’ve been looking for a home Give It Away? Evaluate and Decide
and you’ve found one that feels
almost perfect. The location is Maybe the problem is that you Don’t turn down the idea of
convenient and you can picture have a bed that’s too large for purchasing a home you’d really
your family living here happily. any of the bedrooms in the enjoy simply because some of
However, there’s a problem. “almost perfect” house. Is it a your furniture won’t fit.
One or more pieces of furniture Sheraton tall post field bed with
you’ve had for years just will not canopy or a massive Victorian Ask yourself questions about the
fit. Do you buy the home anyway, piece that’s been in the family for possibilities. When you come
or keep looking? generations? up with answers you like, you’ve
Do you love it, or might another made your decision.
Move It? family member with larger rooms
and taller ceilings be very excited Who knows, another family
Suppose the piece of furniture to get it? member or a stranger shopping
that won’t fit is a tall chest- for a special piece of furniture
on-chest that’s always been in Sell It? could be delighted with your
your bedroom. Could you use decision, too!
it in another room? Might it be Maybe the offending piece of
handsome and useful in the living furniture has monetary value, but
room or dining room? (Rooms has no sentimental value. Why
downstairs often have taller not just sell it? There’s no need to
ceilings than rooms upstairs.) buy a house based on where it’ll
Could it store games, videos, fit, is there?
tablecloths and place mats, and
silverware in its new location?

If that thought process takes
care of the chest, but you’re 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?

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