Downstairs bedroom

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Looked at a house this weekend and basically our bedroom would have to be downstairs and children upstairs. I can't stop thinking it would feel really weird sleeping downstairs.. AIBU? Would it be fine sleeping downstairs? Incidentally I did live in a ground floor flat so obviously slept downstairs then... but it did feel weird!

@theWarOnPeace the upstairs bedrooms aren't big enough for us, all that's upstairs are bedrooms and a toilet!

Downstairs master bedroom is pretty much the norm where I am in Texas.

It took us a while to get used to but it’s ok now.

The worst past is making sure that either: the bedroom is always tidy or the door is always closed.

If our children had been younger we probably would have used the spare bedroom upstairs as ours. I don’t fancy climbing the stairs every time someone wakes in the night.

As it is, of one of the kids is ill I sleep on the sofa upstairs so that I can hear them if they are sick.

It’s pretty much standard to sleep on different floors if you live in a townhouse and have a few dc. We did it for years with small dc; dh and I and ds1 on the first floor, ds2 and ds3 on the 4th floor.

We did contemplate more dc and a loft extension (large Victorian terrraced townhouse) which would have put two floors between dc and us!

....ds2 and ds3 on the 2nd floor.....

We live in a bungalow with a converted loft. At the moment we all sleep on the ground floor (3 bedrooms downstairs, us and 1 dc). Bathroom on the ground floor and we have an ensuite. It's fine. Upstairs is open at the moment and we're looking at ways to make it more private to create a proper 4th bedroom (there's a shower room up there). If we manage it we'll be above DC. I don't think it would concern me.

Its fine. As they get older it actually has its advantages. You cant hear them watching telly/playing games etc (and they cant hear you if you know what i mean).
It just seems weird at the moment because its new. U will all get used to it.