Tips for fitting a nearly 5yo and a soon-to-be six month old into a very small bedroom!

[messylittlemonkey]

Hi

I'm looking for advice/experiences of two children sharing a tiny room.

DD1 will be five in October and starts school in September. She currently has the smaller of our two bedrooms. It is tiny even with just her in it.

DD2 is nearly 17 weeks and currently in the cot in our room, but we want to move her in with her sister in a couple of months time.

DD1 is currently still in a junior bed, but she's tall and probably won't fit in it much longer.

Our idea is to get a high sleeper for DD1 and to put DD2's cot underneath. There will be very little space for any other furniture, so that will have to be shifted into our room which is actually a very good size.

what have other people done?

We plan to move house in the medium term but they will nedd to share for about two years I'd say.

We decided the easiest thing to do was to move the boys into the biggest (our) room and we'd have the smaller one.

Makes sense really, as the dcs have a lot more belongings than us when you take into account toys etc and we wanted them to have room to play as well as sleeping in there.

Would that be possibility, or couldn't you get a double bed into their room?

If you could fit just a bed and nothing else in, perhaps you could keep a wardrobe in the larger room for yourself and dh?

Good suggestion, Moosemamma, but we wouldn't get a double bed in the small room - it's tiny.

I think we'll have to stick to the other plan and just keep most of their 'stuff' in our room.

Could you get bunk beds, but put a bed guard on the bottom one. By the time its on & with the ladder there is not really any of the side without a rail on & just treat it like a cot? Maybe put a chest of drawers next to the top bit so there are no gaps along the side if you know what I mean & on the other side it will be all wall