Who has the master bedroom in your house ?

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We were just discussing this with a friend and she thought it was odd that we have the smallest room in the house.

My dc 14 and 7. Ds originally had main bedroom and DD middle bedroom.
This then switched 2 years ago as their needs changed.
I have always had the smaller bedroom. I have my double bed and no floor space etc but I find that I only really sleep in their so it’s never bothered me.
We are planning on moving soon and I think it will be a similar set up.

How do you work out who gets what room ?

Parents (me and dh) have the master bedroom
DS has the middle room and future baby #2 will eventually have the small room

@Iknowwhatudidlastsummer

We only kept one en-suite in the house, and that's the guest bedroom! Not sure it makes the guests think they are the centre of the universe

Then you’re hosting them wrong 😇

I have the largest bedroom, the two same sex DCs shared the next largest though they had the choice which of the two they had because I wasn't bothered and then the other DC had the smallest but had their wardrobe in my room so they had more floor space.

My two and a half year old has the biggest room lol. Her furniture fitted better in there because of alcoves. We're hoping to buy my FIL's house in a couple of years though and we'll be having the largest room in that house.

DS (nearly 12) has the loft room which is the largest room.

Our’s and DD’s (6) bedrooms are exactly the same size - both are good sized doubles.

We all share the bathroom on the middle floor. Hoping to put an en-suite in the loft room at some point.

Box room is DP’s office.

At the moment I do, but when DS starts school and his needs change, we’ll probably swap them round as the master is huge and has room for a desk and books and toys. The other bedrooms are both doubles so it’s not like I’ll be sleeping in a cupboard!

No one at the moment, it's on the top floor of our house and I don't want to sleep so far away from my kids. It's also next to the guest bedroom currently used as an office and I don't want to be disturbed if husband has an emergency call to deal with, which happens often.

We've got three bedrooms on the first floor, one small 10x10ft which has my 2 yr old in, and two identical sized 15x12ft one for my eldest (4) and me and husband in the other. In hindsight I wish I'd used the smaller room for both kids' beds and clothes and used the bigger room as a playroom.

DDs (5 and 7) have the master, we have the second bedroom. It was set up like that when we moved in (decor wise) as this is how the previous owners had it and it made sense. They have a lot more mess stuff than we do and spend more time up there for playing etc. There isn't all that much difference in size though.

At the moment I have master although bedroom 2 is virtually equal size wish, my 2 share bedroom 2 and bedroom 3 is spare room / office.
Plan is for dd1 to move into my room when she goes to high school so that she has her own space, room for a spare bed for friends, for a desk etc & i will go in bedroom 3 which is plenty big enough for a double & furniture. Will have to re-think wfh solution though as don't want to work from bedroom.

I've just moved into the smallest bedroom and met ds (18) and dd (23) have the bigger bedrooms.

Quite a few people have told me I'm wrong and shouldn't let dd have the biggest room.

My view is that dd and ds spent a lot of time on their rooms, whereas I sleep in mine and spend the rest of my time in the rest of the house. Ds also collects movie memorabilia and so needs the space.

I've made my small room lovely and cosy and I really like it

Our 2 DC’s have the biggest bedroom. Because they have more stuff & use it a lot more than we would.

Kids have the biggest rooms in our house. Lots of dancing/lego needs.

We do now, but before we moved we had the box room which had literally enough room for a double bed and one bedside table. We figured we'd prefer to have the downstairs free of clutter and allow both children to have their toys in their rooms, than us have a big room and one of the kids having to have most of their toys downstairs.

We have 2 large bedrooms and 1 a little smaller. We have the smallest, kids have the bigger ones. would be odd to take one of the bigger rooms just to make a point if we don't need the space and the DC do.

We have always given our daughter the nicest / biggest room in the house. Putting her needs before ours is what makes us happy to be honest. I know this will not be a popular attitude.

We have 4 bedrooms. We have the master, although the attic has an en suite which DS1 had when he lived here and is now the spare room.

Next door (attached) have put two kids on that room and they are up at 6am on the weekends and DH is in the Navy so god knows what they are exposed to when he’s home on leave 😰

The kids do - 2 bed house so they have to share - so they have the bigger space to store all their crap and have place to play. We did make sure we got good fitted storage in the smaller bedroom so actually when that comes into play it's not too badly off in terms of space anyway now.

I live alone in a 3 bed house but I'm actually in the second bedroom. I have the master for any guests. I just preferred the smaller one at the back of the house.

Ds (16) has the master bedroom and ensuite. My room is only just big enough for a double bed with pretty much no extra floor space. It works well for us. He has room for a desk and plenty of space when he has friends over, so they don't take over
my living room. Also it means visitors (other than his friends) don't have to share a bathroom with a teenage boy.

We have two rooms of the small size plus a box room. We have one of the large ones, the one with the best view.

We have the master, which is a huge loft room with ensuite. 5 year old has next biggest, which has plenty of space. 3 year old is in the box room. My office is in the other big bedroom. When the youngest is old enough to care, I'll swap my office to the box room.

Yep we have biggest bedroom, obviously to us as we pay bills and mortgage etc

We have 3 double bedrooms, but the master is much bigger. Each kid has his own bedroom and is the master.

We do. But then, our mischievous kids would have got up and played with water in the en-suite, so we would never have dreamed of doing anything else. It was bad enough when they had a fish tank, with fish in a sieve.

When we've looked at houses we tend to look for how we can have equity between the kids.

DH and I are more flexible in how we get our needs for space met. So long as we can get our bed in we're okay one of us using another room as a study/office or a place to do our hobbies while the other has bedroom space. We're okay with one of us being relegated to the garage for storage etc. We make it work and there'll be a pay off in some other way/ Whereas the kids would be eyeing up different solutions wondering if they were getting the worse of the deal and then their needs would change and everything would be up in the air again. So telling them - you have this room, that's it, make it work, your sibling has the same - saves a lot of time and bad feeling.

So if there are two big bedrooms and a small one, we'd probably take the small one, but we'd make the dining room into a den for DH and I'd get space in the garage to set up my gym. Or something.