How To Help A Family Member Settle Into A New Home
One of the main responsibilities of being a friend is helping someone through a move into a new home.
If you are lucky, your friends will hire professional movers so you will never have to lug a couch up three flights of stairs or squeeze a box spring through a narrow hallway.
Even if your friends and family have their furniture moved by professionals, they may still need the assistance and support of those around them.
You can help friends and family members who are moving by offering them guidance and advice, especially if you have gone through the process yourself.
First, help them anticipate potential problems in their new space.
Chances are if they are buying a home, they will have it professionally inspected.
Remind them to have the inspector look for problems that would require termite treatments or pest control.
Next, offer to help them with updating the space.
Chances are they will want to add their own touches as soon as they can.
If they want to get the place painted in their favorite hues before they move in, your help to paint the rooms can go a long way in making their updates go quicker.
If you have moved before, you know how stressful and chaotic it can be.
Professional movers make it easier, but there are still a lot of loose ends for the homeowner to deal with.
If you are available to help them on the day of their move, they may recruit your services for unlocking or securing doors, monitoring pets, or watching children.
An extra set of hands may prove invaluable on the day of their move.
When getting things into their new home in the most organized way possible, help them keep like items together.
This begins during the packing process, so if you are helping during that time, be sure to label the boxes carefully.
Include a summary of the items on the box, as well as the room in which it will go, and consider creating a master list of all the boxes.
After your friend or relative is in their new home and the move is complete, the time comes for unpacking.
This is a daunting task and it often takes people months to accomplish.
There will be boxes filled with items they probably no longer need, but they do not want to part with the items and that is why the items survived the move in the first place.
Help your friend or relative overcome their anxiety about unpacking by just diving in.
The sooner the boxes are gone from their space, the sooner it will feel like a home.
If they can, suggest they mix the fun parts of moving like shopping for new household items with unpacking.
For each box they unpack, they can make a purchase of something new to liven up their space.
In the long run, they will be much happier they plowed through the boxes and go everything unpacked in a timely manner that allowed them to move on and enjoy living in their new home.
If you are lucky, your friends will hire professional movers so you will never have to lug a couch up three flights of stairs or squeeze a box spring through a narrow hallway.
Even if your friends and family have their furniture moved by professionals, they may still need the assistance and support of those around them.
You can help friends and family members who are moving by offering them guidance and advice, especially if you have gone through the process yourself.
First, help them anticipate potential problems in their new space.
Chances are if they are buying a home, they will have it professionally inspected.
Remind them to have the inspector look for problems that would require termite treatments or pest control.
Next, offer to help them with updating the space.
Chances are they will want to add their own touches as soon as they can.
If they want to get the place painted in their favorite hues before they move in, your help to paint the rooms can go a long way in making their updates go quicker.
If you have moved before, you know how stressful and chaotic it can be.
Professional movers make it easier, but there are still a lot of loose ends for the homeowner to deal with.
If you are available to help them on the day of their move, they may recruit your services for unlocking or securing doors, monitoring pets, or watching children.
An extra set of hands may prove invaluable on the day of their move.
When getting things into their new home in the most organized way possible, help them keep like items together.
This begins during the packing process, so if you are helping during that time, be sure to label the boxes carefully.
Include a summary of the items on the box, as well as the room in which it will go, and consider creating a master list of all the boxes.
After your friend or relative is in their new home and the move is complete, the time comes for unpacking.
This is a daunting task and it often takes people months to accomplish.
There will be boxes filled with items they probably no longer need, but they do not want to part with the items and that is why the items survived the move in the first place.
Help your friend or relative overcome their anxiety about unpacking by just diving in.
The sooner the boxes are gone from their space, the sooner it will feel like a home.
If they can, suggest they mix the fun parts of moving like shopping for new household items with unpacking.
For each box they unpack, they can make a purchase of something new to liven up their space.
In the long run, they will be much happier they plowed through the boxes and go everything unpacked in a timely manner that allowed them to move on and enjoy living in their new home.
