To designate a wardrobe as household storage in DS’s room?

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We are expecting our first child later this year. His room will have two floor to ceiling fitted wardrobes, either side of a chimney breast. Currently his room is used as a guest room and additional household storage.

I have really tried to be creative with storage solutions but unfortunately I can’t see any way round it. We will continue to need some of the space in there. I am proposing that we use one of the wardrobes as household storage space, with the other wardrobe as DS’s.

DH thinks this is unfair on DS but doesn’t give any ideas for where the things should go!

Is this so terrible an idea?

Looks in DS2's room. Shrugs. He sees to be perfectly fine, and surviving secondary school just fine with the Christmas decorations, fancy dress stuff, out grown clothes and charity shop stuff on the higher shelves of his wardrobe. He has plenty of space!

Likewise, our room has all the spare bedding and towels, and all the holiday stuff.
DS1 just has his stuff due to the lack of storage in his room.

Surely this is just part of living as a family???

Yanbu.
But as someone who has also done this, i would strongly strongly strongly urge you to declutter now because it will always be an unappealing job and its much harder to do when little kids are around.

They also end up with more and more stuff as they progress past toddler age and so you will thank yourself later if you get rid of stuff now and have that space to dump his extra stuff in.

I wouldn’t move your dressing table either. It may be very handy to have baby playing/laying on floor or in crib while you are getting ready. Baby sees you and is content and you see baby and can get ready without worry. It’s your house not a magazine. Use the space as it best suits your life today. And of course use this conversation to do decluttering together or just get rid of his shit without him knowing like I do.

See I didn’t even think of it this way…
thank you for giving me something to think about!

It’s your house not a magazine.

This has really made me think actually @Lavenderandbrown. At the weekend we got a tall boy for our bedroom, the idea being that some of my things and toiletries/make up from the spare room could come into our room. On top of the tall boy I placed my deodorant stick, a tube of face moisturiser and a bottle of perfume. DH said they couldn’t live there as it would make the room cluttered and he hates clutter! But I don’t want to have to get things I use daily, out of a drawer. I want them easily accessible! So if I can’t have those three things to hand in our bedroom then I may as well keep my dressing table where they can be ‘on display’ as such (along with hairdryer, make up brushes, jewellery box etc!)! I guess it’ll work for a couple of years….

Yes make it work for now. And if you are having guests who might enter nursery you can always do a quick tidy which I do anytime I’m expecting guests but in kitchen laundry etc. congratulations on your baby

I think it works fine while DS is very small, he won't even need a full wardrobe to begin with, but later on, his is the room that will need most storage.

No I think it's fine, we used half DDs wardrobe for DH's suits when she was little and before we got fitted wardrobes in our room, no point her having a wardrobe with a few dresses in and ours bursting at the seams!
I know people who have a desk in their children's room for WFH, it works while they're still babies/toddlers and don't really need their own space and don't have much stuff yet