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    • CommentAuthorangelb
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2009
     
    I have been told by my Dh doctors back in October that we need to move our bedroom from the second floor to the main level in our home. I have just turned our powder room into a full bath which is absolutely gorgeous and then changed the dining room to the new bedroom.....well he hates it and I don't know what to do. I did put it on myself that my legs are giving me trouble/ per the doctor was told to say this to make it easier but the truth is that my DH has been slipping on the stairs and stumbles sometimes outside on the stairs and I did put railings outside. How can I get him to do this with ease?
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      CommentAuthorJeanetteB
    • CommentTimeDec 7th 2009
     
    Could you just start sleeping there yourself (trouble with legs), tell him he can sleep wherever he wants and see if he will join you? Changes like this are really hard when they are too far along to adjust to a new situation. Luckily we did it (a similar renovation, converting the garage) several years ago (way before AD).

    I hope someone with experience of this situation will be along soon with good advice!
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    Good question, and one that I expect to have to address sooner or later. Our stairway does pose a bit of a hazard, and I do observe increasing clumsiness.
    I don't want to move downstairs though. Perhaps I will, eventually, make a br for him downstairs, and hang out there with him long enough for him to get comfortable with it while maintaining my upstairs space. Don't know.
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    angelb, do you have a door in the dining room? Are you capable of locking it and keeping him in the room with you with access to the bathroom? If so, that would be my suggestion. Someone else used child gates and that worked for their spouse. You have to be inventive to save their lives.

    Stairs are a definite problem in the later stage. Rearranging rooms for a year might be the alternative, Emily.