Where to have the nursery?

[WindInThePussyWillows]

More of a WWYD but this is a real disagreement with me and DP.

We have 6 month old twins and a 4 bedroom house - 1 large double (our room), 1 small double and 2 small single rooms (used as an office and a laundry room).
At the moment babies share a cot in our room but soon will be having their own room and eventually their own cots.

Option 1
1 of us wants the twins to have the smaller double room with enough room for two cots, their changing unit and their wardrobe plus floor space for their play mat.
This would mean if we ever have guests they would have to make do in the two single rooms and we would have to find somewhere to store our spare double bed.

Option 2
The other of us wants the twins to share a single room with enough space for 1 cot and possibly a changing unit but no floor space and no room for their wardrobe, but this would mean we have a double room for guests. Eventually when they move to separate cots this would mean either separate rooms or then moving things again into the bigger room.

The main issue is one of us thinks the spare room is better used for guests. We have a 4 bedroom house and wouldn't have room for a proper guest bed.
We've lived there 1 year and only ever had my mum to stay once and some friends one weekend for the christening.

WWYD?

Why would anyone prioritise occasional - even frequent - guests over their own children? This comes up a lot on here, and I always think it's strange.

I think the people that live in the house get first refusal, not occasional guests. I also know that they won't be long in a single cot as I have twins so it is worthless thinking they could share one cot past about 8-9 months. They will pull hair, poke eyes and climb on each other.

Give them a cot each and the bigger bedroom.

I'm going to show DP this thread.
Thank you all for your thoughts

We have a box room and we've managed to fit a day bed in there. It will extend, although it leaves very little floor space - but then a guest bedroom doesn't really need a chest of drawers or wardrobe in, so as long as you've got hooks on the door to hang things and space to slide a suitcase under the bed, what's the problem?!

Prioritise the people who live in the house. Double for twins if you want them to share.

Have you space in one of the smaller rooms for a 'guest bed' - the singles with one underneath. The babies can then have the double bedroom.

We have 3 children in a 3 bed house - a spare room is a distance memory. What we do if we have both my parents stop is they have our bedroom, then we have a sofa bed that dh sleeps on and I kick a child out of their bed and sleep there. (The child gets a blow up mattress) So there are ways and means, though I know posters get very territorial over the main bedroom.

Does he not think that the dc will ever grow any bigger? I can't see how a room can be too small for guests but big enough for two dc.

Twins get the big room. How is it fair for them to miss out on a bedroom where they can each have their own cots/beds for the sake of occasional hypothetical visitors? If giving guests a double to is so important they can have your room and you and dp can take the single rooms for a night or two.

Depends if they are likely to disturb each other, if not Id be tempted to put them into the bigger room for now, then one of the smaller rooms each when they get to school age maybe??

Did you manage to convince him op?