Does anyones DC have their bedroom in the 'master bedroom'?

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We live in a two bed flat with one dd. We are still umming and ahhing over if amd when to have dc2 and if we have them close together they can share but if we decide on a 5yr plus age gap I would like to move so that they can have their own rooms as I think a teenager isnt going to like sharing with a little child.

Anyway, back to my origional point....if they were close together and shared, would it be sensible to put tyem in the big gigantic master bed and keep the loumge toy free and us sleep in the small double second bedroom (we used this as our bedroom pre dc so know we could fit our stuff in).

Anyone elses dc have the master bedroom? Does it work for you?

Yep, have had many variations in our houses! More useful for the kids to have the floor space imo - dh and I didn't spend much time crawling about the floor with our toys :-)

Same here. Kids are in 20 foot master room, me and DH are in the tiny room which is literally a bed in a room and just enough space to open the door. 2 bed flat. Kids need space more than adults do

My dc have the master bedroom and i have the small one. I have a double bed, chest of drawers and bedside table in my room and can just about get around the bed. My wardrobe is in their room as they have two fitted wardrobes in there. It works brilliantly for me and they do play up there quite a bit

Yes, we have a funny shaped bungalow. We are in the middle sized room that sticks out the back of the house. The reason for this is, it has three exterior walls and gets really cold in the winter. We have the baby in with us at the minute but obviously it's summer so not a problem.

DD1 currently has the big bedroom to herself but DD2 will join her when she starts sleeping through (hopefully soon, she's doing well!). It also means they have floor space that I'm not so fussed about.

Doesn't stop the toys from spilling into the living room I'm afraid Although again this may be because it's all to easy to drag your doll's house through when stairs aren't an issue!

Oooh, so not necessarily uncommon then.

Tbh, the whole 'shall we have a second child?' is up in the air as I think secretly we both want to stick to one (however the thought of never being pregnant and giving birth again saddens me).

BUT, good to know that if a little surprise comes along, we could certainly give them the bigger room without it being too odd.

My daughter has the biggest bedroom (and, incidentally, her bed is the double that used to be our spare bed as we couldn't see a reason to get rid of a lovely bed, which cost quite a lot of money, to get a single just because she was a child). We did it partly so that most of her shit belongings could be in there and partly so there wouldn't have to be a huge change around if we have another. Works unexpectedly brilliantly for us as well because it means her room is at the front so she doesn't need a nightlight and we don't find it difficult to sleep with a street light shining in through our window!

I have considered this a few times but ended up having the whole family's clothes i my room - much easier for putting away.

We've done bedroom swapping a few time here.

We have a two bedroom house and three children - it is a bit of a squeeze but we make it work. DS1 is now 18 and for the last three years has used the caravan (within the garden just opposite the side door) as his bedroom which he loves - it gives him a bit of privacy especially when his GF comes to stay.

We have the smaller bedroom (big enough for us as it's 3x4m) and the two younger boys (14yo and 5yo) have the bigger room. What we have done is to put bunkbeds in the middle of the room with the top half blocked off on DS3s side and the bottom half blocked off on DS2's side so they in effect have their own bedrooms within one room - thankfully the room has two windows so they get natural light, we took out the main light and they have an uplighter in each 'room', DS3 has the end nearer the door and has a big curtain to screen off his section when he's in bed. DS2 has the other end which gives him more privacy as DS3 doesn't need to go through his room at all.

Before we had DS3 our older boys shared the room in much the same way as DS2 and 3 do but it was all decorated the same - now each end is decorated differently which adds to the feeling of it being two rooms. We were keen that they should all have some space to call their own as there are big age gaps and DS2 has asperger's and needs time alone and undisturbed.

It works for us.

We have the smaller room. Reason for us is that if we have guests, they can have our room and we doss with 15mo DD. But also because we thought it'd keep her toys in one place. Ha, the naivety.

We put our 3 year old and baby in the bigger bedroom, doesn't stop the toys ending up in the front room though