Any of you got a 3 bedroomed house and no option to go bigger?

[Disenchanted3]

We live in a council house, we have no option to get a bigger house,

but I would love more children in the future.

I have 2 DSs in large room, our room and box room for DD when shes older.

My mum had the same set up with 4 girls, she had 3 of us in the large room but I hated it growing up.

Not sure what I'm asking really, just been musing this lately and feeling about it.

i live in a 3 bed house,have dd in one room,and ds in another,but am expecting dc3..can't really afford 40 grand to extend.my brother and i had our own rooms and a playroom to share,so this is a new one on me. i feel a bit mean making them share,but what can you do?!needs must

I have 4 DC in a small 3 bed house. I sleep on the sofa so that DS1 and DS2 have their own space.
Only option is to look for a housing exchange. There maybe someone looking to down size.

We live in a 3 bed Housing Association house.

We have 2 average sized rooms and a box room, dp and i have one of the average sized, dd's 1,2&3 share the other average, dd4's cot is in the box room (not that she bloody sleeps in there much )

Mine only ever sleep in their bedrooms, they socalise downstairs and bring their toys down to play with as dd3 is too young (2.1) to play upstairs and the older ones like to include her.

We are planning on ttc #5 in a year or two and wont be able to move so we will all just have to share and like it or lump it!

We have a 3-bed and while we might get something bigger some day, 'some day' is a very long way off!

We have 2 children - would have liked another but have decided not, there are a few factors but house size is definitely one of them. I have no issues with children sharing rooms (although had never considered more than 2 sharing) but it'd be a squeeze in this house as the ceilings are slopey & the rooms are small. I have spent some time with a measuring tape wondering if i could get small bunks in somehow...

I do feel sometimes but I think it's actually nostalgia for the baby days, and a bit of broodiness - quite happy with my lot generally.

we have a 3 bed flat , rooms are a good size , not huge but no box rooms. we have boys in one room and the girls in another.
triple bunk beds for the boys, normal bunks for the girls and a blow up bed thingy.
dd4 is in our room,(she doesnt sleep and cant have her keeping girls awake, they are studing for exams)
if my 3 step kids didnt spend some of the time at their mothers ,we could not do this.ds3 &ds4 sometimes share the bottom bunk going top to tail .we dont have room for another bed,and we simply cannot store all the stuff that comes with the kids.
I need a larger house, but we cannot afford to buy a four bed , as i gave up work to look after dd4 full time...might be lucky and win the lottery or get a 4 bed council house(thinks its just an urban legend )

We have a 3 bed that we are renovating. Dds share and we have a small room currently in use as a sitting room which (fingers crossed) will be for a future baby. Ideally we would have somewhere bigger but this house is so perfect excepty for that we will put up iwth for some time I think!

We can't extend as it is listed and none of the rooms can be divided up so it can't get any bigger

I would happily sleep downstairs so there are 3 rooms for kids upstairs but our house is tiny and we just have small kitchen and sitting rom downstairs, our original council house had a dining room which would have been perfect a a bedroom for us but we had to move to this one.

I have 5 kids in a tiny 3 bed council house with no chance of anything bigger. DS1 and 2 (19,17) in 9ft square front room, DS3 and 4 (12,6) in 8ft x 9ft room and DD in 7ft box room. OH and I sleep in the dining area of the kitchen on a futon (9ftsq.) because the living room isn't big enough to fit a sofa bed in with any other funiture (9ft x 17ft).

If it were feasible, I would rather sleep in the living room but there is just no way. THe house has no cupboards or anything either. The whole thing is a nightmare but we had to move here when I was expecting DS4 from a 2 bed or we would never have been moved at all because the council have sold all the 4 beds and not replaced any of them. The thing that really worries me is the lack of privacy especially for the bigger boys, but you just have to make the best of it.

We have a tiny 3 bedroom house and I have 3 dcs, 2 boys aged 7 and 5 and dd, 9 months. We also have no option of moving, let alone getting a bigger house.

My boys have always shared, even though we have a spare room (dd is still in with us, mainly because we have failed dismally to get her room decorated as yet). They are horrified at the thought of being split up and put in separate rooms, it is the worst threat we can use if they are playing up after they've been put to bed. I told them the other night that if they didn't lie down and go to sleep, dd would stay in with us and one of them would be put in her room, then when she is bigger we would get a sofa bed for us in the lounge and they would each have a separate room. They both sobbed for half an hour and begged me to let them stay together.

I also shared with my sister (who is two years older) right up until she left home at 18. We loved sharing and I think it helped us to bond and support each other through some pretty tough times. That's not to say that there weren't times when we would both have liked a bit more privacy, but I don't really think either of us suffered for it.

I suppose the issue arises if you have dc number 4 and the baby ends up being the same gender as two of the children you already have. I have heard of people doing the sofa-bed in the living room thing, but its not ideal. (I knew before I said it that we wouldn't have to split my boys up and end up in the living room ourselves by the way ).

Its a toughie, I would love another dc, but we have agreed no more for various reasons, not least of all the space issue.

We are so fortunate small 3 bed house but we were able to put a "storage room" in the loft and flung dd1 up there. So we have 2 sharing the biggest room, dh & I squished in the middle room and then a reasonable single room which is forunately large enough for a cot & a single bed with a gap in the middle.

We did until recently have 3 in big room and we kept them in cots for as long as possible.....

The storage loft room is not legally a bedroom and it is possibly invalidating our house insurance but the loft was boarded out, had electrics, a ladder etc when we moved in so possibly we'd be okay....It's also only used part time as dd1 is at boarding school

Dis - I am SHOCKED this is you

At present we have a small 3 bedroom house, well the bedrooms are tiny (it's a new build) DD1 and 2 have bunks in one room which isn't big at all, DD3 has her cot in the box room which is tiny, think single bed and chest of drawers and that is it.

Due to fate my MIL died this year but the one good thing if you can think of it like this is she has left us a bit of money that will pay for an extension, I am dreading the work but this house is so small it is essential, DB4 is due in May. We really don't want the money but the best way to spend it is to invest it ultimately for our DDs, it was one of the reasons that we decided to ttc#4 really

We have a reasonably sized 3 bed and although we could probably afford a 4 bed other things would suffer for it, so we've agreed to stick to 2 kids for that reason.

The only way I'll get 3 is if this next one is twins, and I don't want that with a DS that will be 2.5!!

i live in a 3 bedroom house with 4 kids, its chaos, my son and daughter have to share, my oldest has the box room and the youngest sleeps in beside me, there is no room for toys and clothes are piled everywhere, would love to move but no chance in near future

Not in a 3 bed, but we are currently living in a 2 bed HA flat which is riddled with damp and according to the tenancy agreement, can only have 3 people living here.

At present there is me, DH, DD and DS - we are expecting DC3 in May (unplanned btw). When DC3 arrives, we will, technically be overcrowded by 2 people. DD has her own room atm, but when DC3 arrives, DS will have to share with her in bunk beds (DS is 17 months and not walking yet, so I can't see him being ready for a bed at just before the age of 2 so we can use the cot again).

The HA won't entertain a move for us at the moment, we have to go through the council and apply to go on the housing list again (it's more of a bidding system now). Even with the overcrowding issue and DS's medical complaints (chest infections, chronic asthma etc etc) we will be lucky to get a move out of here.

We are so tight that we don't even have room for wardrobes to store clothes in, there is clutter everywhere as no room for storage. It's a nightmare.

Would love to move, but a) can't afford to buy and b) looks like it's never gonna happen

We're in a 3 bed HA flat with 4 boys. The two eldest share and the two youngest share. DS1 (14) is desperate for his own room but the HA say we won't be moved until he is 16.

The storage here is terrible and we don't have a loft. Drives me crazy sometimes.

we have a three bedroomed house, we rent privately and at the moment there is no way we could afford to pay any more than we are paying now.
we have a boys room and a girls room but only three kids at the moment. I would think we could fit at least one more in though

Better to have all the kids you want and love in a small house than a big house with no kids in it

This post made me think of this

inashoe.com/2008/05/big-family-in-a-small-house-part-3-floor-plan/

my house suddenly seems plenty big enough!!

My friend has a 2 bedroom house and 4 girls. Her and her DH have one room and the 4 girls share another.

we have a 2 bed box house. our 3 dcs are shoehorned into one room while me and dp have the other room. we rent privately but just cant afford to move out. i only want one extra room so that we can have a bit of breathing space! i keep praying for a lottery win (i know its never gonna happen!) just so we can move.

we have a 3 bedroom house, and 4 kids. people ask me if i'm moving, i say no, they ask why, i say we dont need to move we have plenty of space.

i think i could fit in another kid as well [broody]

atm, we have dd1,2,3 in the main bedroom. its big enough for two wardrobes, two set of bunkbeds and play space.

dd4 is in her own room, which also has a spare wardrobe in there currently. I am planning on building a large cupboard into the dead space above the stairbox which is in the room.

dh and i are in the medium sozed room. it has uilt in wardrobes which need replanning and building to make the most of the space, plus we both have bedside tables, a kingsize bed and a chest of drawers and exercise bike.

i shared a room with my sisters growing up, and it was fine. until we got to teenage years and argued over music lol.

Our big two love sharing and get great comfort from it. DC3 is on his own but may move in with them when he stops using a potty at night time. If we had any more, we would move on to bunk beds. I get great comfort from the fact that my brother is paying thousand of pounds a year for my neice to board in a dorm of 6 - and there are we worrying about 2 sharing!