DD is 2 and a half, and we have another DD due any minute (well, technically in a month, but that sounds SO long away...)
We live in a dorma bungalow, so DDs room is downstairs and our room is upstairs. Eventually we want the kids in bunk beds in DDs room (with a vague idea of putting them both upstairs if we are still here when they are in need of more space) but at the moment there isn't much room in there with her cotbed, bookshelves and cupboard (its kind of a cupboard underneath with shelves and two drawers on top).
The baby stuff is currently either in the garage or in a big pile outside DDs room.
Money is very much an issue, and it is a rented house so we are limited as to any permanent solutions. Any suggestions for fitting another child in the room?
Obviously at first baby will be in our room, but eventually we will have to fit both kids in together. We are thinking of a cheap single bed for DD and converting DDs cotbed back to a cot for the new baby, but that is really going to cause space problems. The beds will fit in, but then there will only really be room for two standard sized chests of drawers. I'm thinking the new baby is going to have to be at least two before she will be able to have the bottom bunk of bunk beds, not least because DD will need to be old enough for the top bunk. Me and my sister apparently bedshared when she was a baby, but I really not sure DD could be trusted not to push the baby on to the floor.
Given the choice, I would have everyone in the big grown ups bed, but DP smokes and is anyway not keen on bedsharing as he says he can't sleep with DD in the bed. He does have a point as she is very wriggly.
I suppose we could move the bookcases out into the rest of the house with a bit of shuffling, but what does everyone else do? I would like to have the babys stuff downstairs if possible, to make the endless changes of clothes easier.