Sharing a room, few questions. I dont know what to do!

[Julezboo]

Right, I have two boys, 8yo and a 3yo. New baby due Early Feb (3yo turn 4 on feb 16th!)

At the moment they have their own room. DS1 has the larger room, DS2 has the smaller (boxroom)

I have no idea what I am having and wont know until the end of September.

Originally I was going to put the two boys together, with bunk beds, but then with the age group so different I would need to come up with a room decorated to both their taste (Was thinking dinosaurs or just plain blue with a few canvas prints of their fave characters. Then doing the small room up for the baby.

But, now I am thinking about it, would it make more sense for teh smallest boy to share with the baby if its a boy? Obviously if its a girl (highly doubt it!) then the two boys will have to share!)

Will they sleep, or will it be a complete nightmare? I plan on doing it before baby arrives to get them used to sharing. They do play together well most of the time.

I dont know what to do, either way I need to swap rooms around, even if we leave it until after baby is born because 3yo is LOUD so I want to put us at the back of the house with baby in our room and the two boys at the front!

I would put the two bigger ones in together and baby on its own, I would guess the new baby will be in your room for a while anyway so no need to rush getting it sorted.

I would let the oldest choose how the room is decorated - after all if he is going to share it then it's a bit of compensation

I am still trying to get my two to share but they wind each other up, get out of bed and start playing so despite having two single beds set up (they are bunkbeds split as they are too young yet) I have had to put DS back in my room, he's 20m now and I would quite like him out TBH!

I was going to get round that by staggering bedtimes lol, 3 year old at 7pm and 8yo at 8pm.

If you want anyone to share I would put the baby and the little one in together in the bigger room. Why does it matter what gender it is?

The bigger one will have more need of a room of his own, he'll have friends to play and delicate models to protect and 9soon) music to listen to and so on. And his position as the eldest to maintain!