How do you decide which child get which bedroom?

[Brambles35]

We live in a 3 bed house and likely to stay here for a while so want to get this right. I have a (20mo) son and soon to have a daughter. We have decorated the good sized middle bedroom for my son to go into and the small box room for the nursery/daughter. This decision was based on child age, I.e. Elder child getting bigger bedroom.

But......MIL has told me that I should give the bigger bedroom to my daughter as girls need more room and their bedroom is more important to them than boys?? (She had 2 boys so not sure where she got that!)

Wondered how others decided?

Our DD2 does resent the fact that she has the smallest room. It was the same for me and I don't go into the argument with her as we've had it too many times already.

We have already decided that when (if) DD1 goes away to university, DD2 will go into the biggest room. She's counting down already... 4 years to go.... :)

Previous house based on age, DS got bigger room. This house DS offered DD bigger room as "she has way more stuff" - he is right, she does and it's a good job he offered!

I think DC1 gets the bigger room unless they're sharing, in which case the sharers get it.

I'm DD1 in our family but DSis always got to choose which really pissed me off!

we moved house when I was 13 and my brother was 10. He got the bigger room because he needed it more. He was still at the stage of playing in his room.

I've never understood why older children are seen to have more right to the biggest room purely because they're the oldest.

mine is like this: 17 year old has meduim down stairs room. it seperates her from the younger ones a bit.

i have meduim room upstairs to be closer to the kids. 10 week old is in with me.

dd 4 and ds 8 share the large room because they have lots of toys and play alot.

12 year old ds has box room because he does not have much stuff and he just like its little bit of own space.

In our case, we opted for the two kids to share until they are about 8 so that we could use the extra room as an office/spare room. No need for young children to have their own rooms in my opinion. I need the space more than them!! (It helps that I am a toy minimalist -- regular clear-outs of toys).