Is it strange to put both children in one room when they could have a bedroom each?

[MrsScamander]

DD(5) and DD(10mo) currently share a biggish bedroom as we're renting a 2 bed flat.

So far it's working well, youngest DD still wakes during the night but eldest DD doesn't wake up. We currently put the baby to sleep in our room and transfer her into her room when we go to bed and eldest is asleep.

We're looking to buy a 3 bedroom flat, the master bedroom is a very good size with loads of storage space and room for toys (of which there are many!)

My plan would be for the children to share the big master bedroom as it would fit all their furniture. They'd have plenty of room to play and we wouldn't constantly have toys in our living room, currently we have to keep toys in our living room because we have nowhere else to put them and I hate it.

Me and DP would have one room with our bed and chest of drawers, and another with the wardrobe, dressing table, clothes horse and ironing board.

This appeals as I hate that at the moment we have nowhere to hide the clothes horse, it's in our bedroom at the moment and gets in the way.

But when I've discussed this with others they think we're silly not to give each DD their own bedroom and we have the master bedroom.

It's not our forever home and by the time the oldest is a teen we'd hopefully be somewhere bigger so they can have their own room, but right now they don't seem to mind each other.

Is it a silly idea?

Mine have their own rooms and have gone through various phases of sharing and being separate. Sometimes you just have to be flexible.

I shared as a kid with my siblings. My Dc don’t share and have quite large rooms each. But none of them have ever been good sleepers and I recently wondered if sharing with siblings was more comforting for little ones? My DS always wakes up scared.. perhaps it’s better having someone else in the room?! I could be looking at sharing a room through rose tinted glasses as it was a long time ago and I do remember being frustrated as I always tried to keep my end of the room tidy! 😂

We have our dds in together and have a spare room. They get on great, and the spare room means to can work from home and my mum can stay more easily (which she often does to help with childcare).

I'm one of 5 siblings and shared a room with at least 1 other sibling until I was in my teens (when we moved to a 6 bed house!).

My DSs (3 and 5) share a room in our 4 bed house and I really love having 2 spare beds for storage and guests as well as confining the toys etc to their room. We're lucky to have so much space. Expect they'll have their own room eventually, but will wait to see if/when they ask!

My girls love sharing a room, at least for now. They're 4 & 7. I could move one of them into our small spare room if they later decide they don't want to share.

My eldest kids share because they want to although the age gap is a bit smaller. When your younger it was necessity, now we could separate them but neither want to. The youngest sometimes gets sad because "she's the only one on her own"