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Living room Vs playroom

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MarianneVos · 01/10/2022 07:06

Which way round would you have this?

YABU: room 1 living room, room 2 playroom
YANBU: room 1 playroom, room 2 living room

Context: 3 DC under 4. So at the moment when they're playing we would all be together in the same room.

Room 1 is accessed off the hall, has door to room 2 and conservatory, conservatory leads into garden. Room 2 is only accessed through room 1, and has double doors into the garden.

Room 1 has a log burner. Both rooms have TV connections.

Room 1 is wider (5mx4m) Vs room 2 (5mx3m).

Originally I assumed room 1 as the adult living room. This has the advantage that we could just shut the door on room 2 in the evenings and ignore the mess/child stuff.

However, I'm now thinking that as the play space will be where we all are, and will be spending a lot of time together especially when it's cold/rainy, the bigger space makes sense, and we could also use the conservatory for bigger toys/toy storage etc.

YABU: room 1 living room, room 2 playroom
YANBU: room 1 playroom, room 2 living room

Living room Vs playroom
OP posts:
eddiemairswife · 02/10/2022 09:28

We had a large nursery fireguard that completely enclosed the fireplace and was clipped to the wall on each side.

AlwaysLatte · 02/10/2022 09:39

Room 2 - have the other room as a grown up space, toys get brought in one at a time. Larger toys elsewhere eg toy kitchen in actual kitchen, craft things and other high supervision items in hidden storage in conservatory so doesn't look like a another toy room.

Michellexxx · 02/10/2022 09:47

Agree definitely room 2 as playroom. You can still sit in there with them but it means you can close the door at the end of the day!

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