Tell Us: Do You Know How to Live With Your Parents?
If you've tried multigenerational living under one roof, we'd love to hear the details
Last night I checked out two mistresses of comedy, Sarah Chalke and Elizabeth Perkins, in ABC's new sitcom How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life). It made me wonder how I could make it work if I had to move back in with my folks or shelter them here at my house.
So many economic factors during the past few years have resulted in higher numbers of nuclear and nonnuclear family members living together; it has become the new normal.
So tell us: Are you sharing your home with your adult children, or have older family members moved in? How is it going?
Share your best advice and strategies you have picked up during the experience in the Comments section below. If you have a good design tip related to multigenerational living, please share a photo of it as well; your story or idea could be used in an upcoming featured ideabook.
So many economic factors during the past few years have resulted in higher numbers of nuclear and nonnuclear family members living together; it has become the new normal.
So tell us: Are you sharing your home with your adult children, or have older family members moved in? How is it going?
Share your best advice and strategies you have picked up during the experience in the Comments section below. If you have a good design tip related to multigenerational living, please share a photo of it as well; your story or idea could be used in an upcoming featured ideabook.
How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), which airs after Modern Family on Wednesday nights, centers around Polly, played by Chalke, and includes her daughter, her stepfather, her mother, her ex and her single bestie.
Used to having the house to themselves, her parents tend to overshare. "TMI" is not a part of their vocabularies.
Houzzers: Whether you moved back in with your parents or they moved in with you, how did you establish boundaries and manage to have any privacy or time to yourself?
Houzzers: Whether you moved back in with your parents or they moved in with you, how did you establish boundaries and manage to have any privacy or time to yourself?
Polly's wacky parents live for Oscar night; they believe it is an official holiday. They also believe that anything can happen on Oscar night, and it does. One advantage of these multigenerational housing situations is that you have so much extra time together.
Tell us: What were the best things that came out of your multigenerational housemate situation? Which usually dull household tasks became easier or more fun? What opportunities did you have to create special memories during the time you all lived together?
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Tell us: What were the best things that came out of your multigenerational housemate situation? Which usually dull household tasks became easier or more fun? What opportunities did you have to create special memories during the time you all lived together?
More: How to Make an Extra-Full Nest Work Happily
Houzzers: Did you live at home after your 20th birthday? What was the biggest challenge? How did you get settled in?