Moving siblings into the same room

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Has anyone any experience with room sharing toddlers
Ive a 12 month who is an awful sleeper and a 2 and a half year old who's a dream sleeper.

Should I just go for it and hope for the best or put the youngest in on her own until she's used of the room (afraid she'll constantly wake her sister)

Youngest is in my room and I'm not sure if she's disturbed or an actual bad sleeper.
She needs to go to her own room asap🤣

I have 2 kids sharing, youngest is under 2. He does wake in the night still but oldest usually sleeps through as long as we respond to him fairly quickly. Oldest sometimes is noisy while we're trying to get youngest to sleep though which can be quite frustrating

Do you have a room for each of them? I would never disturb the good sleeper. The poorer sleeper should have her own room and get used to it. This will happen but it’s not the job of the older child to be disturbed. It’s your job I’m afraid.

We had almost the same scenario and moved them in together a few months ago. It worked amazingly and the younger one now sleeps through the night at least 5 nights a week. When she wakes, she doesn't wake the older one, unless it's nearly morning. So, we have the occasional very early morning with both awake. But I'd take that over the many, many night wakes we were getting before! Hope it's as successful for you!

She needs to go to her own room asap

So put her in her own room.

She’s disturbing you, why on earth would you think the solution is for her to disturb the other sibling instead?

Ours shared until the oldest could dress himself for school, it made our lives so much easier getting them out of the door, and bed times too.

Baby stays with you until they can reliably sleep. Or go in their own room

Why would you do this? You know it will end up with the dream sleeper being woken up all the time so why would you even entertain the idea?

Should have mentioned its a 2 bed house we are in

Well if it’s a choice between a young child having disturbed sleep or the baby’s actual parent, I’m saying it’s the parent’s job. What exactly did you anticipate when you had a second child in a two bed house? I don’t think it’s fair to move them in together until youngest sleeps through the night at least most of the time.

If you think she’s just disturbed by sleeping in a room with others presumably she’ll be disturbed by her older sister too?!