Would you prioritise a wardrobe or desk in a very small bedroom

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My dd 12 has the tiny box room. She can either have her wardrobe or her desk(its big!) In there. She cant decide. I think wardrobe, she can use a desk in our room and she has a laptop so will probably ens up sitting in her bed! What would u do? Wardrobe currently in hall outside her room.

What kind of bed does she currently have? Could she have a desk under a loft bed in there?

If not then definitely a wardrobe over a desk. Do you have room for her desk downstairs so she has a place to work.

I would look at bed options. Can you get a high bed with built in desk underneath? I would opt for wardrobe over desk and look at other options.

Wardrobe.

She will definitely use the bed with a laptop and a desk will become piles of laundry.

My son has a really really tiny bedroom, like a bed then a wardrobe and that's it. Other good solutions have been one of those over the door storage things, bed with storage underneath, and cube storage shelves on the little wall space there is.

It depends if she has many clothes that need to hang up; drawers may be useful and in a small room it’s really nice to have a clear surface.

What bed does she have. My youngest has a high sleeper, has drawers and a desk underneath.

Does she want it as a desk or a dressing table?
Either way I’d prioritise wardrobe but my dd would have prioritised dressing table at that age.

Bed and wardrobe.

She can use many other places as a desk.
You could also just get her a raised bed (like a bunk bed with a desk underneath)

Get a high sleeper with a wardrobe and desk? For a nearly teen girl I would have thought she’d want both.

I would say desk. Having had two teenagers, a desk has always been the most important thing in their rooms (one was also in a very small room with no wardrobe). They like privacy as they head into the teenage years, rather than having to sit in someone else's room.

I’d go for desk - if it’s large she can have a small set of drawers underneath it for some clothes and keep the rest in another room.
Age 12 she’s going to be needing to spend more and more time at her desk with schoolwork. It’s not all going to be laptop stuff and it’s better not to sit on the bed all the time with that anyway.

Or you could see if you could find a smaller desk and a narrow wardrobe to fit the space

So she had a high sleeper abd desk underneath but wanted it changed. Now has a normal single bed with storage underneath. We have desks in other rooms for her to use.

I think wardrobe, since you have other quiet spaces available for study.

I don’t think it’s great for DC to study in their bedroom and don’t encourage tech in bed for my under 16s, for either study or leisure.

Are the desks in a room she can be alone? I found that while DD would use the bed for her laptop, she would definitely use a desk when it came ot GCSE and later A-level studying. And studying meant 2-3 hours each day, more before mocks and exams. Can you spare a downstairs room for so long for around 4 years (Y10-13)?

She also had a monitor since 6th form for some work where all material was delivered as pdf and that's a lot easier to read and then make notes on paper/on the laptop as a second screen.

A tiny room is not the best for a teen to study in, could you plan a short term and then a longer term solution?

I think we might be able to squeeze a narrow desk in if needed. Hers is a big one with storage above and its a corner desk.

I think in light of the fact she chose to change the room knowing it would mean she could no longer have the desk and wardrobe plus that you have other places to do work in the house then the wardrobe takes priority over another desk.

Get the wardrobe and buy a fold out desk. Also look into under bed storage if you haven’t already.

I actually think this is a good idea, I like the idea of tech out of her room.

If the hallway is big enough for the wardrobe can it stay there so she can have a desk? If she has a smaller desk, possibly with drawers that she can use for socks/pants, make up etc as well as a small wardrobe, would that work?

Or she might be able to easily share a desk, eg if she only needs it in the evenings/weekends and it's only used to WFH during office hours otherwise.

She has a PC & monitor at moment. Both me & dh work from home part of the week we have a desk in our room & a downstairs room with desk in. I think she'll be fine in other rooms.

I am about to get rid of large desk to replace with wardrobe/clothes storage....

DD doesn't even have a lot of clothes but the desk is just too big. Even worse is the desk was my niece and BIL spent ages putting it up.....

That's the debate at the moment! Wardrobe stay where it is or move. She came definitely share a desk with me.

Having 2 teenage DDs I'd go with the desk. It'll double up as a work place and make-up table with mirror (essential if you ever want to use your bathroom again). My eldest has a wardrobe in the hallway and desk/dresser in the bedroom. It's big with drawers under for some clothes.

Im going to say bed and desk. At her age she is beginning to need privcy and her school work will begin to ramp up so having a quiet personal space for her studies will help with this.

I’ve seen shallow desks/dressing table that slot over the end of the bed so you have the width of the bed plus the width of the room.