Why do women always feel like a house has to be used in a certain way?

[D_Bone_Steak]

Like the dining room... why can't I just turn that into a gym. There's a fucking table in the kitchen already. We don't have dinner parties, so what's the point of having a second table for no reason?

Make the living room the kid's room and turn that bedroom into the real living room. Why does it just have to be so cookie-cutter? Someone is going to get slapped if they even suggest I put my weights in the Garage.

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Military family, we have to move every 3 years and there is no remodeling or real ownership of these places. But how we set the house up is a reoccurring battle. I always get my way, since I'm the one left behind in the place sometimes for a year at a time.

I'm more curious as to why there is such a strong desire to be like everybody else or to do things just like everybody else does.

[TrueConfection]

That's what remodels are all about. Someone wants to turn their livingroom into a bedroom, so they add a wall and a door for privacy and a closet for their clothes.

Want the dining room to be a gym? Close it in and add equipment, mirrors, tv, whatever you like.

Bedroom becomes a livingroom? Take out the closet or turn it into a recessed area for the tv and sound equipment, shelving, or whatever need you have for the space.

Some people expand their kitchen by removing the table.

There are so many possibilities.

[Apple1996]

That shit would be trashy like unless you wanna look like trailer trash then it's not okay to have your kids sleeping in the living room. Maybe the gym could be anywhere but that might also look trashy to depending on where it is in your house

[D_Bone_Steak]

That the thing... there is nobody to look, so who cares how it looks? We don't know anybody there and nobody ever comes over for something dumb like a dinner party. I mean we're both loners. I don't see or understand why it should matter when something not the norm just makes more sense.

[Apple1996]

Well it's not even about looks but it would feel trashy too. Houses are set up a certain way for a reason like to set a flow. A home gym being in the open would ruin that flow. I could maybe see it being in the garage tho

[LiamJHayden]

Women lay claim to the home by decorating and arranging it. This way when you divorce, the case is easy to make that it is her home. After all, you never hear about the wife being "allowed" to turn the garage into a "Woman Cave."

[Juxtapose]

You run your place how you want 👍

[Juxtapose]

But I can't speak for women.

[Anonymous]

Women nest. If a woman doesn't care about the home you live in together you have bigger problems

[D_Bone_Steak]

So her having no logical sense means she likes me? I feel like just wants to conform to something that literally nobody cares about. It makes no sense to me.

[Opinion Owner]

Logically the garage is a better place for a home gym. My guy has a home gym out there. Honestly he has everything including a punch bag, heavy duty weights bench, dumbells, cable machine, kettlebells, treadmill, rowing machine. He also keeps a fridge full of beers, a sofa and a 70inch flatscreen with surround sound and smokes his cigars out there. He still can work on his car there too.

[D_Bone_Steak]

It must be air-conditioned or something... hot days or cold days? The temperature extremes I've experienced aren't a place you'd put a television. I have the same amount of equipment. The military doesn't supply us with the best of the best of accommodations though.

[SlothySlob]

Who owns the house?