Oh yes, had/have to replace all furniture due to fire loss and could not buy even a sofa until I had several (4) options for how the pieces could be arranged. The RoomPlanner app makes it easy.

I used to rearrange a LOT, but I don't anymore. At all. I suspect I found specific furniture additions which helped create arrangements that are so satisfying to me that I've been perfectly content to enjoy each room as it now is.

I used to do it more than I do now, although I still think about it a lot. It may be ADD or boredom, who knows. I just like to change things from time to time.

At one time I regularly rearranged our family room - probably 3x/year just to mix things up. Then it lost the fascination for me! But I like have options in a room even if it's not a total change.

I find I move things from room to room. Most recently, I took a small marble-top table from my dressing room, knocked off the porcelain casters, and I'm not using it as a mini island in the kitchen. It also was under the printer in my home office for a while. It's not the only piece that has moved around. When various pieces can change rooms it always makes me feel good -- that my taste is consistent and things can be repurposed at will.

Never.

Not so much. I used to rearrange my living room until I hit on a layout that a friend whose taste I respect remarked upon: "This makes much more sense than the way you had it before." Done. Most of my other rooms are small so the furniture is located in the only way that makes it functional.

I would like to do something with the dining room/office. However I can't come up with an arrangement that makes any more sense than what I have now.

I used to move things around so often at our last home that my hubby said he never knew what to expect when he got home from work.
I have most rooms in our current home set, though I have changed them over the years for various reasons. Some because of our son coming home from over seas, some after his divorce and he and our grandson moved in while son finishes college. For the most part I'm happy with the main level.
I completely understand the desire to change things. I think it's pretty normal.

Not since we built the new home with the intention of a specific furniture layout. The rooms work for the furniture...the furniture works for the rooms. In the old house I did though.

Annie. We did the same thing. Even the windows are spaced to fit our furniture layout.

Not really. Like Annie and Brushworks, we had this place designed with a specific floorplan to fit our furniture. For example, the main seating areas in both our living room and family room float in the middle of each room. We have brick floors throughout and so we had to specify exactly where all the outlets in the floor went. This alone makes it very difficult to rearrange things. I do occasionally rearrange the furniture in our guest room, though. But then again, it has no floor outlets.

Not really. I pretty much know where everything goes before I move in to a place. The only time I rearrange furniture is if I get a new piece, but that's rare.

So envious of those who were able to design and plan your homes! I think that's my problem-- awkward room sizes/shapes, and no arrangement can fix that.

@jlc712, after living in different apartments, townhome and SFH before buying a house, I liked working w/ awkward room sizes & shapes the most - found them fun and challenging to get them to work. Also interesting to move furniture around; what was in LR at one place, went into hallway in another.

Rearranged DS's LR while pet sitting for her. Fortunately she liked it and kept it that way. Have 2 DF's that I would love to rearrange their furniture. How do you suggest that? :-)

I wish I could! We have an old house with a lot of doors and windows that makes even one good arrangement challenging, never mind two or more possibilities! There is literally only one place the sofa can go in the living room, and only two spots for the two armchairs. We have a huge open kitchen/family room, but because of all the doors and windows, again, there are very few options for arrangements that work. I have tried once or twice to rearrange the seating arrangement there, but it never works. Bedrooms are the same way. I'm sure this pleases DH and the kids, who all freak out even when I rerrange the contents of the kitchen cabinets...

I cannot imagine sticking with the same arrangement forever! I can see planning a house so as to have a spot for a special piece (I have a family antique corner cupboard that would require some wall space, for instance), but other than that, nope. I would get bored. I like trying different arrangements from time to time and even though I am not doing it as often now, I do move small pieces pretty often.

Nope! My mom rearranged furniture a couple times a year. I've never had the desire. Our scenario is similar to Sue's. It either goes in a specific spot or it doesn't work.

Been in this house 34 years. Even when replacing things they all pretty much stay in the same spot. When we moved the TV from the top of an old trunk to an armoire the placement changed, but that's been it.

I do move things in the gardens. That seems to satisfy the urge.

cyn,

It's safer when walking around in the dark. Ha!

Opps..who moved that?

Never. I get it right the first time. LOL! Our Living room is impossible to decorate. Imagine view windows on 2 walls, and a fireplace on another. The last wall is half pony wall due to the views. All furniture must not be against a window. So, we work with it. Corner Sofa set, desks and work stations behind. TV on pony wall, but that's not the one we watch.

I do not. Occasionally, when I'm deep cleaning or after we take the Christmas tree down, I think of shifting things around for the novelty of it. But the way we set things up when we moved in (13 yrs ago) just works best.

My sister, on the other hand, moves things around constantly - even switches out entire contents of one room to another. She lives in a 100 yr. old house with smaller, more defined rooms. I think that makes it easier to do. She was born with good taste and a creative flair & I always enjoy seeing what she's done in the house.

Very rarely, and only when something new comes in. When I purchased a mahogany sideboard for our dining room, I moved the existing one into our master bedroom to use as a large nightstand, but that was a planned change. When we moved into this house almost ten years ago our interior designer took pictures and measurements of every piece we owned and did a scale floor plan for this house before the move. He placed furniture into different rooms based on scale and size as well as purpose, and did such a good job that it all functions perfectly and I can't imagine a different layout looking as good or working was well.

No, not often. I do as someone else mentioned, and tend to move certain pieces from room to room. The colors in our rooms all flow together - with a bit of exception of hubby's office. So from time to time I swap out pieces, but not the whole room of furniture.

i couldn't physically move half our furniture alone- too big and heavy!!! usually after we move, there is a few month period of time when we rearrange things until it all looks 'right', but then it stays!! (til next move~)

i do occasionally move around what's on the walls tho!!

I admire those that have a home with several options for a functional layout. My home, in general, only works one way. I don't get bored with it because if it works, it works and why mess with success. I had a designer in when I was working with Ethan Allen for new furnishings and she left the room arranged just the way I have it.

I've never been one for re-arranging furniture, even though I knew certain rooms had more than one option. I think I get comfortable with a certain arrangement, settle into it, and the thought of doing something different never enters my mind.

My 'odd room out' in this house is the greatroom with it's corner fireplace. I've arranged the room around it, with area rug and sofa/sofa table on the diagonal, facing the fireplace. There is other furniture in the room, but I did want the stone fireplace to be the focal point, so this arrangement 'stands pat.'

The one thing I do not like is all the furniture shoved up against the walls, except in bedrooms. When it's arranged more centered in the room it seems more inviting/intimate keeping more than one person involved in a conversation. Also more cozy when the fireplace is ablaze!

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Not all of us are able to live in homes with rooms large enough to keep from having to shove all the furniture up against the walls.

Like Gramarows, mine doesn't allow for much change. The furniture pretty much only fit one way.

It's funny - my mother loved to rearrange furniture and we certainly did not have a large house. It was always fun to come home from school and discover that she had rearranged my bedroom. My bedroom was the smallest but due to the layout and the small window my twin bed could be placed in 5 different positions.

My house is much larger than my childhood home yet it's not conducive to rearranging. I hadn't thought about it before but it's because of the windows. My house has large double hung windows and I think that makes furniture placement more difficult.

Sorry, but my post wasn't meant to offend anyone. I lived in a small condo, and maybe because the furniture was smaller, unlike so much of the bulky pieces found today, I was able to center a sofa/loveseat, and 2 small occasional chairs/tables.The only piece of furniture on the wall was a large antique armoire which housed the tv, vcr, tapes, books, candles, and anything else I might use in the LR.

Since it was sort of a semi open concept, I really didn't have many options~a large window was on one wall, fireplace on another, it was open to the foyer, and a railing separated the overlooking 2nd floor DR.

While my home is larger now, I feel I grew to like the intimacy of such an arrangement, and it doesn't require a large room, but possibly smaller or less furniture in a room.

I seem to believe in my own home there is ONE perfect placement for things and that is where they stay. The addition of something NEW could easily cause a bumping effect and switch things up but once that ONE sweet spot is attained, I leave things be. At Christmas we have to re-arrange to accommodate a tree--it always feels sooooo good to have it gone and things back "where they belong". The thread intrigued me because I have a friend who I would say has yet to find THAT SWEET spot. From the array of staging she has done in that space I totally understand her challenge. She has an odd mix of "heirloom" pieces and IMHO poor choices. She rearranges often. She doesn't have wall to wall carpet she is trying to save, avoid a wear pattern (a reason some rearrange I hear) she just has a very large space that accommodates a baby grand piano and at least three seating arrangements. It is a very odd shaped space. It is a puzzle. This week I helped her AGAIN. I got her to try something totally new. So far everyone loves it. Will it last? With this friend I doubt it. I think she likes change, and I thoroughly enjoy helping her!!!