Of your children shared a room due to necessity, how old when they got their own rooms?

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If you had a house where it meant two or more children had to share a room, at what age did you decide to move or extend to give them their own rooms?

When I lived at home me and my brother shared until I was 9 and he was 3

My daughter is 9 and I'm having her sister soon; they will be sharing for the foreseeable future; probably until the baby is 4/5 really

I had to share a room until I moved out, it was annoying but didn't do me any harm. My dc will probably have to share till they move out too.

My DC are 11 and 7 and there isn't really any potential for them to ever have their own room. 3 bedroom places are prohibitively expensive here and I rent so no option to extend.

Hmmm they were 11 and 8 when they got their own rooms .

Because we split the room in too with a partition wall and put a window in .

I only did it as they were a girl and boy.

If they were same sex i wouldn't have done it.

One day when they move out , the walls coming down and im having a big room again

One day lol

I shared until age 11 with younger brother.

Dd1 has just stopped sharing with her sister age 11, but sometimes they choose to sleep in the same room.

DS age 7 stopped sharing with them at 18 months and has always had his own room, but elects to sleep in with sister age 9 sometimes on weekends or holidays.

I shared till I moved out. It never really bothered me but it annoyed my younger sister a lot 🤣. We moved when ds 1 & 2 were 10 and 8 and chose a home with an additional room so that they could have their own space - although that was in advance of them feeling the need for their own space.

When they were teenagers.

When I was a child there were three children and three bedrooms (one which was obviously my parents)

I had my own bedroom until I was 9, then I shared with my older sister who would have been 11. We went from having one of the two smallest rooms each to sharing the largest bedroom, my parents having the medium bedroom and my younger sister having the small bedroom.

After that we would chop and change who shared the biggest room and who had their own room until my elder sister moved out. My younger sister and I went back to having one of the smaller rooms each.

We had 3 DC in a 2 bed house. We extended to give us 4 beds when our son was 4 and our daughters were 8 and 10.

My brother and I shared until we moved house when he was 4 and I was 6.

I shared with my sister until I moved out at 16. My 3 boys are 11, 6 & 3 and will be sharing for the foreseeable, even if we did move it would only be to a 3 bed and the younger two would share still.

I don't think it's fair for a teenager - 13 years old and older to share with a much younger sibling

We are moving soon and mine will be 12 and 16

I think ideally at around age 10 for same sex siblings, maybe 8 for children of different sexes.

I have girls that are 14 months apart currently 4 and 5 I envision they will share forever as we are renting a 3 bed and possibly will never be able to buy certainly not anything bigger

My DTs shared a tiny room until just before 3 when we moved. They’ve their own rooms now and actually go to sleep at bedtime rather than escalating naughtiness/grumpiness every night.

Totally limits our choices as and when we move (3beds are so much more expensive) but I’d rather sleep in the sitting room than have them share again!

We had a 4 bed, two older brothers always shared until first one then the other left home. I, as the only girl had the tiny box room. Twin younger brothers shared until elder brothers had left home when they then had a room each.

I only had one child so he always had his own room.

Until they moved out. All same sex.

@Babababababybelll any advice / photos of the partition?
Planning on doing this for the two that share as they are driving each other crazy

We partitioned with the largest Ikea kallax

Dc are still sharing a room. I shared with my dsis until I moved out! It didn't harm and I preferred it. Our last home, dm offered me a room on my own and I said it would suit my middle sister more and I continued to share my other sister. I let my middle sister get the room to herself.

I preferred to live in the bigger room with the garden view, instead of street view.

@AlexandraPeppernose weren’t you worried they might topple over ?

My dc are currently still sharing age 8 and 9, but dp is giving up his office so that dd1 can have a new bedroom for her birthday next month.

They got on fine for years, but over the last year dd1 has wanted her own space, so it feels like the right time for us.

We have 4 kids , 3 boys and a girl. For many years the two middle boys shared the biggest room but then we turned the downstairs front room into a bedroom, so they all had their own rooms. I think they were about nine and eleven when they stopped sharing.

9 and 7 (opposite sex siblings) - as long as we can move this year.

I don’t see why same sex siblings must have their own room? I grew up sharing with 3 of my siblings, we had a double bed and a bunk bed all in one bedroom and it was actually really nice