To make DD&DS1 share a room?

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DD(7) and DS1(3) Haver been told time and time again to keep their rooms tidy.
I'm not a cow, I don't expect them to be perfect, but general order shouldn't be impossible.

I got so fed up with DD shoving toys/rubbish/bits of tissue/clothes etc under and behind things that she lost the big bedroom and now has the small one, DS1 has the big room.

Yet AGAIN, I've had to go and gut her room from filth and DS1's clothes were all over the place, toys all over the floor.
So I asked them to put all toys in boxes, rubbish in bin and clothes in drawers.

Did they do it? Did they fuck.

DP has said to them that if they can't keep their rooms tidy, they'll have to share when we move in three weeks.

The small room would either;
Be used for DS1 - I'd love a nursery for him tbh, and as he is currently waking about three times a night, twice not to feed, it would mean I could try and stop those wakings by helping him settle himself, which at the moment I can't do because I don't want him to wake DP.(He is only 19 weeks though so not sure I want him to have his own room just yet)
Or DP will use it as a study - Again, good idea as he is doing police college and the computer/desk is in the dining room atm so when he is trying to work he gets no quiet.

AIBU in putting a seven year old girl in with her little brother though? Is her privacy too important?

I think that a 7 and 3 yr old could share a room without any privacy issues. I do think that it may come with its own problems- eg fighting? (mine would) and you may be making a rod for your own back?

Oh- and I agree that 7 and 3 is not too young to tidy up FGS. THey are not minature ponies being sent down a mine- they are being asked to put cars and dolls away!!!!!

It;s not unreasonable fto kake them share a room at 3 and 7,
I said s that your DD would still need help at seven mainly because I know that at 7 ny Dd would not have been able to read a list and tick things off one by one.

I think DD has been lucky with her dyspraxia, she has really bad fine motor skills, not great gross motor skills, but everything else is pretty ok.
She is quite able to read a list and tick things off.
I've told them they are going to share when we move, for a year, when we will be buying a four-bed house, and they will be allowed their own rooms if they try and keep this one tidier.