What would you do: buying a house

[Booooot]

My husband and I have 2 children so the house we are looking to buy has to have a minimum of 3 bedroom. However we’ve recently decided we would quite like to have another baby.
With our budget, a 3 bed we could get a lovely large house with a big garden and everything we need, but 2 kids would have to share.
We could get a 4 bed, but the house would have to be much smaller and in a less nice area. But the kids would have a room each.

Everyone I k ow who had to share a bedroom as a child hated it so I feel quite against it but also don’t want to move from the lovely big house we’re in now to somewhere smaller.

What would you do?

I hope this isn’t going to turn into a debate about whether to have a third child. Which on MN usually seems to be answered with no. The OP is asking about house choice for a potential family of 3.
OP you can sometimes extend for more space later

And three is really expensive. Childcare. Holidays. Activities. Food.

Think carefully about whether you can properly afford it

His was one of the reasons I stopped at two. Imagine you have a child with additional needs, bedrooms will be the least of your worries. Sometimes you need to be reminded to appreciate what you have. You can afford a nice sized house in a nice area for your current family.

I shared & didn't mind it up until I was 11, then we moved.

• but admittedly my sister wasn't with us all the time. she had the top bunk, & I used to wake her up to play by poking knotting needles in the mattress.

I'd been concerned about buying a four storey house and the practical aspects of family life

Of course many families are very happy with 2 children and it can be a sensible and practical choice. On the other hand another child can bring great joy and plenty of families manage to bring up a family of three children very successfully.
Cant believe how many MNs want to insist to other mums that it’s much better to only have two. Surely these things are a decision for the individual mother, partner and family, not an occasion for a lecture from dozens of people giving dire warnings about how wrong headed it is to consider having 3 children

There's nothing wrong with 2 siblings sharing a bedroom. A room for each child has become a luxury that many families can't afford yet still expect to have. Go for the nice, big 3 bedroom and start planning how you'll make the sharing work. My eldest two shared initially and the baby had the box room but as they got bigger the middle child got on better with the youngest so we switched round. It worked for years until the middle one went to university.

Growing up sharing was normal , I shared with 2 sisters and my 2 brothers shared. We have 4 children and they all have their own rooms but I don't think there's anything wrong with sharing.

There’s a big age between our two so the older one would have her own room and little one would share with the new one. By the time the smaller ones would need their own space the older one will have moved out which I guess does change things a bit!

I have three children in a three bed and even though we could afford to move i love my house and I'm staying here. Of all the awful things that could happen to a child in their life sharing a bedroom isn't up there in my opinion.

Usually 'less nice area' = less nice schools... enough said!