When we moved into this house 4 years ago, as we have done with every one of the 11 moves we've done in the last 17 years, we labeled boxes with colors to designate in which room each should go. Our current house is 1,700 square feet but our previous house was 3,008 square feet. Although every room in the previous house was most definitely not filled, we had plenty of room and storage, so it never looked cluttered. When we moved into this house, the 3rd bedroom became a catch all for things that did not have a place in the the kitchen, living room, family room, bathrooms, B's bedroom, our bedroom, basement or garage. The color assigned to this 3rd bedroom was black so it became known as "the black room".
We figured that as we settled into this house, we would be able to go through the boxes in the black room and either find a place for those things or get rid of them. Four years later, some things have moved out of that room, but not much, and many more things that came into the house ended up there if we could not find a place for them. I had always hoped it would be a bedroom for another child, but I need to let that go.
