Does anyone else live in a house not big enough for their family?

[mckenziemuffin]

DH and I have 2DC of different genders and live in a 2.5 bedroom flat (DS' room isn't actually big enough to be classed as a room, but does have a window. May just be able to squeeze in a single bed when he's a bit bigger but there'd be no floor space. We'd only intended on being here a few years whilst they're young but the market has outpriced us and we can't afford anywhere bigger that's not literal hours away and in a whole different place. We are expecting another child (contraceptive failure) and don't really know what we're going to do when they're a bit older. The only option we see is splitting our room in half for the older DC but that's only if we can put a door in a wall we haven't checked structurally. So if not then I really don't know. I'm so reluctant to move again as it was a big move to here 2 years ago and DD is thriving so much at a school and I don't want her to have to move again when she's so settled (DS probably wouldn't mind as much). Is anyone else in the same position that their home is too small for the people in it? We can't extend anywhere either

@LeavesOnTrees it's downstairs, you open the front door and immediately have to go up the stairs, there's no porch etc. can't extend kitchen as there's nothing structurally underneath to extend on top of (we're first floor).

two solutions for box room,
1; bed under window, the over the stairs box, floor to ceiling storage for toys and clothes built in get a carpenter, small desk by bed head that doubles as bedside table could even be dropleaf so turns into a small shelf so more room to play but with the very large living room plenty of room for toys to be downstairs not upstairs

2; get a carpenter to build a bed base over the stair extend whole length of room so built in storage at end of bed room for desk under window hooks with coathangers for the hanging clothes on other long wall

the living room has two windows so could use furniture heavy curtains to divide into two rooms for the same sex children the other using box room as above; you and DH sleep on second floor and use current bedroom two as living room and the dining room could have a desk to facilatate working from home or homework for child in box room, my sisters and I always did our homework on dining table as bedrooms not big enough for desks