Room sharing

[ThatGutsyHedgehog]

Me and DH own a house with 2 bedrooms upstairs and 1 bedroom downstairs.
we have a 8 month DS and would like 1 more child within the next couple of years.
Would it be fair for the children to share a room whilst younger?
would it work well in reality? Or would they keep each other awake.
We really like our house this is the only issue.

Which is more important to you, living in that house or another child? If its a child, try the roomshare and move if it doesn't work out. My feeling is that it will be fine. Sounds like fun for them actually.

kids should be fine sharing up to age 8 - if they start when they are little, they will be used to it.

Millions of kids room share.
Mine do. Their bedroom is for sleeping/ book reading.
Then they have a toy room.
It works well.
We've asked if they would prefer own rooms they say no.
Age 7 and 12 are the sharers.

Of course it is. Siblings all over the world share bedrooms and you have another one there for when they are older and need/want privacy. Mumsnet is the only place where people seem to be horrified with siblings sharing a room.

Of course children can share a room! If they are same gender, no reason why they can't share forever (of course, this may not be ideal, but also not unreasonable). If different genders, sharing still ok until pre-teen age (9-12).

You have 3 bedrooms? It’s fine for them to share but you have enough rooms for that not to be necessary don’t you?

You can definitely make it work. If there are short-term problems with one waking the other, you can find a temporary solution, but most likely it won't be an issue.

2.5 year age gap here, eldest now going on 8. Youngest went in to share with her at 9 months.

They prefer it, they feel safe having each other around and have nice chats. Eldest loved having youngest in with her as it evened things out - before that three of us were in one room, she was on her own, she felt a bit left out.

She's a heavy sleeper but they both sleep through each other's cries, being ill, bad dreams and bed wetting etc.

If we go on holiday and there is a bedroom for each of them, they still prefer to be in together.

Not so long ago kids used to share single beds, sharing a room is fine!

I think op is questioning whether someone should sleep downstairs.

If things went really wrong, you'd work something out.

Sharing is fine. Everyone I knew with a sibling as a kid shared a room! My husband shared with his brother most of his childhood. I think it's a relatively modern thing this belief that every child needs their own room from day 1.

Yes that’s it! Sorry should’ve been clear

We are currently in the process of making the downstairs bedroom into a playroom for DS.So the idea would be sharing a bedroom upstairs and all the toys and playing in the room downstairs.

Our previous home had 3 double bedrooms and a single. We had a double, DD1 had a double, DD2 initially had the single and the third double was the spare room. When DD2 outgrew the cot, she moved into DD1's room and the single became a playroom. Once they were both at high school we reshuffled and DD1 moved into what had been the spare room. They loved sharing when they were younger.
Friends of ours were in a 1 bed flat when their first was born. They moved to a 2 bed flat a few months later and had intended to move to a 3 bed house when their second was born but the markets crashed in 2008 and they couldn't afford to move. They had an unplanned 3rd child and for many years were stuck in their small 2 bed flat, with the 3 children of different sexes sharing a room.
Children sharing a bedroom isn't a problem.

Normal for kids to share in the real world outside of mumsnet. My kids share, it’s fine.

We've got enough bedrooms for our two to have a room each but we have decided that they will share once the littlest one stops co-sleeping with me. It'll mean we retain a spare room if family stays which doubles up as an office as we both WFH.

DS(5) is very happy with the thought of sharing with his sister.

It doesn't matter what gender they are, it's mixed sex that I'd recommend stopping at 8-10.

My kids share but they're running out of space now as teens. A say six month old and a toddler would be a nightmare imo. You'd have to keep the baby in with you until sleeping through reliably.