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How messy is normal for multi-kid bedroom

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HairyBananarama · 29/03/2026 15:39

3 kids ranging from age 6-12 in one very large bedroom. Plenty of space and plenty of storage, with wall to wall kallax along on wall and more kallax on another wall, along with a built in wardrobe with shelving. No clothes are stored in the room, just all toys/belongings.

12yo is good at being tidy, but is a collector of figurines etc so has lots of stuff neatly on shelves that collect dust. The younger 2 manage to create mess just by looking at things 🙈

At the moment, the room always looks untidy. The younger 2’s shelves always look like piles of stuff have been shoved on. I’ve tried labelling shelves etc. but it doesn’t help.

I’m fairly sure that they have too much stuff, most of it is never played with, and I think that the fact that the room is so big makes us less likely to chuck stuff.

I have a thing for visual clutter so the general messy look drives me batshit, but I’m not sure where to start or how to solve.

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PicklePalace · 29/03/2026 23:59

3 children sharing one bedroom, no matter how large , is always going to be chaos. Do you have plans to separate them as th eldest one is almost a teenager?

nocoolnamesleft · 30/03/2026 00:01

Yeah, the odds of three youngish kids all being tidy must be pretty low. Put them in the same room together, and chaos sounds very normal.

HairyBananarama · 30/03/2026 01:32

They were separate up until 2 years ago, and then the eldest requested to share as she doesn’t like sleeping alone. We have several guest bedrooms so that’s not a challenge, but none of them want to have their own rooms 🤷‍♀️

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HairyBananarama · 30/03/2026 01:32

They were separate up until 2 years ago, and then the eldest requested to share as she doesn’t like sleeping alone. We have several guest bedrooms so that’s not a challenge, but none of them want to have their own rooms 🤷‍♀️

I was like your dd. I loved sharing a room with my siblings and even as a teenager I wanted to share. My parents set up a desk space for me in a spare room so I still had a quiet space for studying as I got older.

AutumnAllTheWay · 30/03/2026 01:47

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