To stick DS2 in a cupboard...

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No, much as he drives me completely batty sometimes I wouldn't do that....

But, I have discovered that the previously unusable built-in closet in our bedroom is wide enough to fit a cot-bed in, making a potentially rather lovely sleeping-nook for DS2 (with glowstars and fairylights and the usuall small-child-pleasing stuff. And with cunning furniture placement he'd have a fairly private area (and so would we)

We all currently sleep in the same room with DS2 side-carred onto our bed. But the time has come to move him.

I was originally going to just move him wholesale into the second bedroom which is currently basically an extension of the loft.. and I'm still waiting for DS1 to come and collect the remainder of his crap vital stuff. (he's 24 and moved out at 19)

But, (work with me here)

If I turn the second room into a playroom by day/ sewing room by night/ potential occasional spare bedroom for guests, then

1. There will be two spaces for playing/sewing (2nd bedroom/living room)
2. I will have somewhere to set up my industrial sewing machine.

3.Guest won't have to sleep on our sofa (unless they particularly want to share space with the world's most allergenic rabbit)

1. I would be able to sew in the evening upstairs once DS2 is in bed and OH is watching boring informative TV .

We are planning on moving to somewhere bigger once our finances have stabilised and before DS2 is much older, so he won't be in there forever.

Is this a completely nuts idea?

Is his name Harry :-o

My nephew had an ensuite as his bedroom so why not! As long as you know it is only temporary then I would go for it.

Without reading the OP, Harry Potter sprung to mind :o

Joking aside, give the child the second room. I think your reasonings are a bit selfish, sorry.

Voldemort I was a bit worried about the owl I keep seeing in the tree outside....

On a serious note, I think its fine. He still has a play space and he will probably sleep better without distactions. :)

do it! I have just put dd in the box room with ds so we could keep our spare room. We have a play room for playing so bedrooms are just for sleeping in our house. How much space do they need?

Second room is dark, damp and the only room in the house without double glazing. I'm not sure I'd want to sleep in it...
We don't have the money to make it damp-proof or stick double-glazing in right now.

When DS1 lived here, it didn't have the damp problem, but was still quite a gloomy room. (North facing/ large tree in park directly in front of window)

Which is why DS2 is not already in there.

You didn't mention the damp in you OP, in fact you said itd make for a guest room.

Bit confused.

I don't think its selfish. I lived in a tiny two up two down for 10 years with 3 small dcs. Every inch of space is vital and rooms have to be yeas for more than one purpose.

However the closet space could probably make a nice little craft room if its big enough for a little one to sleep in.

It's damp. It's OK to sleep in once or twice, I can make it cosmetically nice, but I can't fix the underlying problem.

I suspect that anyone sleeping in there on a long-term basis would end up with health problems.

Do it!

My DS is also in our cupboard dressing room.

It's big enough for his cotbed, a cupboard, toys etc and very handy for night time waking. My friends all laugh at him being in our cupboard, but he loves it!

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Voldemort, I was thinking that, but you can't sew in the same room if someone is sleeping.
It would be nice to have somewhere to have my big machine out so I can start making extra money with costumes again.

Why would anyone put their child in a cupboard just to keep a spare room?
I knew someone with 5 children (all girls) and they all slept in the same room, not because they only had one bedroom available - but because in a 4 bedroomed house it was essential to have a study and a spare room
I never quite got the logic, it's pure selfishness.

I don't understand why you've made this topic then, if you think anyone sleeping in the room will have health problems then it's a bit cut and dry what to do.

Maybe you should have mentioned that in your OP above anything else :)

Agreed flogging moggy. However apparently it isn't fit to be a bedroom now

Well she's not keeping at a spare room. She will use it as a toy room for Ds in the day but will be able to sew in there of a night.

Its not like she is saying she wants the room for her sole use. When you live in a small space, you have to be inventive. If the child is small enough to fit in a cot bed, I'm sure he will be quite happy with the set up.

when we visited my parents when the children were small they would bicker about who got to sleep in the dressing room fitted wardrobe

and in fact I turfed ds2 out early one sunday morning when I woke up with a migraine and needed some dark. My mother believes vertical blinds are perfectly adequate as curtains!

I do not see the issue, esp if the other room is not wholly suitable.

Yes you have to use incentive so giving the child the 'spare' room to have as a bedroom is the correct thing to do. She doesn't need a sewing room. The child does or WILL need a bedroom.

1. It won't be a spare room! It will be the play room. His toys during the day, my sewing stuff at night. Very, very occasionally someone would be able to sleep in there. We never have guests at all at the moment. At all. ever.

2.The room was always gloomy, but now, apparently, having not been in it for months except to hurl stuff throught the door, it seems to have developed damp.

1. It may be that extra heating and drying out would solve the problem, it may be that there is a structural fault that we would not be able to fix. without cleaning out the room and investigating further I've no way of knowing. The room has been basically uninhabited except by junk for the last 5 years, because that's how long I've been yelling at DS1 to come and get his stuff.

1. We have no money, I have no time. DS1 appears to have gone deaf. The cupboard would always be a short-term stop gap solution until we have thought about it some more, found some money, or moved.

DS1 needs somewhere to sleep and somewhere to play. I need somewhere that isn't the living room to sew as that is how I make my supplemantary income.

supplementary even.

I think it sounds like a great idea - assuming you're taking the doors off. Could even fiddle up a privacy screen with a clothes rail? Excellent staging between bring close enough to hear you breathe and on his own in a room with unfamiliar noises.

And he gets a playroom during the day.

Fwiw, at about age 2 we got ourselves a big cupboard that sits at the end of the bed for storing sheets etc. ds wanted to move in :-D