For those of you with three (or more) children...

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Do each of your children have a bedroom each?

I have an 11 yo, a 14 yo (boys) and an almost one yo (girl).

We rent.

A three-bed is fine at the moment as our baby girl is in with us, but not sure what to do in the future?

This is interesting I have two boys who share 8 and 10 but I think they are starting to need their own space. I could change the playroom downstairs to a bedroom or divide the space.

My 3 dc have their own rooms but only by us going into the second reception room which was a play/spare room before.

DC love having their own space & I honestly think it helped us cope well through lockdown as we could spread out etc.

Saying all that I wouldn't worry too much if my boys had to share & wouldn't move to a bigger house unless financially comfortable. Ours was more making the best use of the space we already had.

@Summergarden We can't afford to buy, definitely not a four-bed. We pay just under 1k rent pm for this three-bed.

In Aug will have 13yo, 3yo and newborn. Planning that when DS3 is ready to leave our room he will share with DS2. DS1 keeps his own bedroom being that much older.

DS1 is looking like he will probably want to go to uni so we plan to keep his room accessible to him until he's about 21/22/23 but (hopefully!) by then he should be independent enough to have moved out. So when DS2 is getting into his early teens and wanting more privacy, in theory there ought to then be a spare bedroom for one or the other of them to move into. I don't see it being a problem for DS2 & 3 to share until then really.

Or we might have moved to a larger place if income has increased by then. I'm not working at the moment, so this is likely - once all three of them are of a more independent age I don't see why I wouldn't go to work full time.

Oh I didn't even see I had already answered :o

We have 4. The 2 older ones share a small but very cool attic space. The 2 younger ones share a larger room. When they are a bit older (and the younger 2 are out of the 'big toys' stage) I will swap them over so the younger 2 share the attic space and I will divide the larger room between the two older ones.

There seems to be a bit of a thing these days about all children needing a private bedroom, but I don't really agree.

Mine have a bedroom each and I don't think we'd have had a third if they couldn't. For a surprise baby or when you already have the third though its hardly the end of the world to share a bedroom. I remind my kids every so often that they're lucky to have a room each as me and DH share and don't have that luxury of a space each - before dc3 we had a study

Tbh my youngest two are both boys and still at 13 and 10 choose to share dc3's bunk beds at weekends and in school holidays. They stay up too late talking so I don't let them share on school nights but they'd be happy to. A room each was/ is incredibly useful for homeschooling and homework though - they really distract one another!

Your age gap and mix of boys and girls withthe close in age siblings opposite sexes will mean room sharing is far from ideal I'd think, and I'd lookat room dividers before pulling a preteen and teen opposite sex set of siblings together or putting a preschooler in with a teenager. It does depend on the personalities and their relationship too obviously.

I have 3 DC of my own who live with me full time, DS 13, DD 3 and DD 12 weeks. I also have DSS 8 who stays with us EOW. We have a 3 bed semi. The boys share a room when DSS comes to stay. DD currently has her own room, baby in with us. At 6 months and if sleeping through I plan to have the girls sharing too. However, long term plan is to move to bigger house, at least a 4 bed.

Yes mine all have their own rooms. I don't think I would have had a third if we hadn't had space to do that to be honest. We bought a 3 bed with 2 children and then extended into the attic while I was pregnant with no. 3, both planned.