Siblings sharing rooms - does it work, shall we try it?

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dd1 (6.5) and dd2 (3.5) currently have their own rooms - but with the arrival of dd3 I'd like to put dd1 and 2 in together, keep dd3 in the nursery room (weeny) and use dd2s old room as a spare room/playroom (with a sofa bed and a tv).

I guess they will have bunk beds, but there is bound to be a huge amount of fussing about 'my side' and 'her side' - any advice? Is it worth it?

the worry is that dd1 is anally tidy and dd2 is, er, not!

malory - but you moved them back?

pamina - mine have an incredible amount of stuff so we'd have to come up with some very clever storage ideas - I think we'd HAVE to have a clear out (cue dd1 having an attack of the vapours and having to be bodily removed from the bin)

sorry but I don't really understand why you want one bedroom and one playroom as opposed to two bedrooms.
My two share a bedroom - DD 4.5 and DS 2.5 - but I was rather expecting that when DD gets to 5+ she will start wanting a room of her own.
is it because you want a spare room?
if so, would it work to get a temporary bed for one dd in the other's room - eg when a guest comes, DD1 or Dd2 goes in a ready-bed - and gives up her usual room temporarily?
that is my plan, to give DD her own room when she asks for it, but put her back with DS when guests come. She will have a trundle bed - so she will sleep in a single bed but i can pull out the other half to make twins for guests.

I put dds1 and 2 in together in bunk beds when they were 6 and 4.5. It was a disaster! They fought so badly that in the end we had to put dd1 on her own in the little room and put dd3 (20 months) into the bottom bunk. This works much better-just depends on characters I think. Isn't your dd3 quite tiny though?

My DS1 and DS2 (8.7 and 6.1) shared until we moved last month. No real problems apart from them being slower to stop mucking about and go to sleep.