Twins and separate rooms

[MsNobodyAgain]

I'm at my wits end with my bickering boys. They are 7 and currently share a room. They both have learning difficulties, so their actual developmental age is around 4 I think. They go to a SN school (honestly, this is relevant).

Currently, they share a bedroom. They have never liked each other. DS1 is very loud. He likes to sleep in the dark, no light on. DS2 is very quiet. He has ASD and hyperacuasis (sensitive to loud noises). He likes to sleep with a night light on.

I live in a modern semi so the room sizes aren't great. I have a spare/junk room which could just about fit a single bed in and a small set of drawers. Do I move DS1 out to that or not? I've asked him if he'd be ok with it and he said yes, but I can see problems when they are older...'my rooms bigger than your room' type of thing. The reason I think DS2 should have the bigger room is because he is very solitary and spends a lot of time in it, lying on the rug and running toy cars up and down for hours. It soothes him. DS1 isn't so focused on his room.

Opinions, PLEASE. I know I'm feeling a bit on edge because it's school holidays.

I would move ds1 into the small room. If he wants it.

Can you get a cabin bed to increase floor space.

You have nothing to lose. I have twins. They are now 18 and have shared a room since birth. We never had the room to seperate them. And when we did the youngest of the two would be found outside his brothers door in the morning.
Try it, if it doesn't work you can switch back. They will change regardless of SN. Sometimes my boys fight most of the time they get on. At the end of the day of it makes your life that little bit easier surely it's worth it

And the holidays are nearly over :)

Id.move him. you can fit tons under those highbeds or if you know a joiner they could build a bed up above wadrobes and shelves.

I have 3 singletons and we rotate the rooms annually as the 3 bedrooms vary in size. Their rooms are decorated in a gender neutral way with their trinkets, posters and bedding providing individuality.

Agree with a trial period

Definitely do it.I have twin boys,though not SN.
They did prefer sharing,but they only just managed to keep the peace amongst themselves.

Thanks for the replies.

Cabin beds is a no go due to SN (won't go into details but bed has to be close to the floor). They both have low level 'car' beds . However, that could change in the future.

I hadn't considered a trial period or rotating bedrooms. I have a DD with her own room so she could be part of the rotation too maybe.

I think I'll go for it once they are back in school.

Thanks again.

I split my DTS and DTD up into seperate rooms just around their 5th Birthday. Partly because DTS was a very early riser and DTD was most definitely not! I put him into the small spare room, with just his bed, a chest of drawers and some of his toys tub things. I let her have the bigger room that they had been in, on the proviso that she had to have both of their wardrobes etc in her room. I also decorated his little room exactly how he wanted before moving him over, so he was really excited to move.

Thanks lis. I'm going to have to push on with the move asap (I was going to wait a week til they are back in school), but DS1 is so excited I don't think I can stand him asking me every 5 minutes when his new room will be ready .