Family of 4 in a 1 bedroom flat....Any tips or advice??

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Our place in a lovely 1 bedroom Victorian flat with a garden in London. Happy living here and can easily afford it. We have a DD 2 yrs and a LO due in April 2007. Just wondering if any other MNetters have been in this situation and have any tips. The rooms we have are all large so we will fit and we are moving to Australia in 2008 so don't want to sell up and move, so we will be crammed for about 12 months.

I have a family of 5 in a 2 bed flat. We are waiting to move, but in the meantime we are stuck with it. I don't find it a struggle, my flat is alot larger than a lot of my friends houses. The best tip point I can give you is that my children sleep like logs, because they are so used to noise. It is not as bad as people make out.

Goodluck x x x.

Might be worth upgrading to a kingsized bed for when the new one arrives then you can cosleep and not bother with a cot.

We were in a one bed flat when I was expecting my first baby. Bedcause of the shape of the flat I was able to re-design it to split one room in to two. It meant a kitchen with no window but gave us a second bedroom. With help from my FIL we did the work for next to nothing, only big cost was a new kitchen £500. The old kitchen was a 70's brown disaster anyway.

The whole flat was jigged around to make the best use of the space. Perhaps you can do somthing along those line or even just a partitioned of area to give DD1 some space of her own. Ikea have loads of ideas for small space living.

I knew a family that had a studio flat with a baby. They used to put the baby to sleep in the bathroom so they could watch telly etc in the evening.....

we were in a small one bed flat til dd was 9 months.... at one point her cot was in the hall as i couldn't fit it in the bedroom, it was still close enough for me to hear her breathing though!

was cramped for us but like i said it was a very small flat, 3m x 3m bedroom, 1m x 2 m bathroom and 4m x 4m room that was kitchen, dining, living room and housed pc . there literally wasn't room to walk and dd didn't learn to crawl til we moved as there was nowhere for her to practice