AITA for asking my neighbour to move her craft room to a different bedroom
In the quiet rhythm of their upstairs flat, a new tension brews beneath their feet.
The arrival of a stranger with a bustling craft business in the very room below where their children’s laughter once echoed has turned their once peaceful sanctuary into a source of relentless noise and frustration.
Every step, every hum of the machines feels like an intrusion, a reminder that the space they once called their own is now shared in an unexpected and unwelcome way.
For the wife, the sound is more than just a nuisance; it’s a daily assault on her sense of calm and privacy.
She wonders why the new neighbor chose the largest bedroom for her craft, ignoring the children’s schedule and the thin walls that offer no refuge.
As the evenings stretch with the whirring of machines past the hour she hoped for quiet, the invisible boundary between homes blurs, leaving her trapped in a whirlwind of growing resentment and helplessness.
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The original poster (OP) is experiencing significant anxiety and sleep disruption due to the perceived noise and presence of their downstairs neighbor running a home craft business from the apartment directly below their bedroom.
The central conflict arises because the OP believes they have the right to quiet, especially in their bedroom during the evening, while the neighbor asserts the right to use her purchased property for business purposes, pointing out the OP's children also generate noise during the day.
Given that the neighbor has already taken steps to mitigate noise, and the OP's confrontation led to marital strain and neighborhood tension, the core question remains: When living in close proximity, whose right takes precedence—the upstairs resident's need for guaranteed quiet in a specific room, or the downstairs resident's right to operate a legitimate home business within the hours they deem necessary for their livelihood?