Pros and Cons? of siblings sharing a room

[Upsadaisy]

Our house is very limited in space. My boys aged 4 and 6 have their own room currently. My youngest is in the box room which is a box I might add and we are thinking of putting him in with his brother.
They both play in each others room constantly and often we have to put them back in their own bed at night.

I work from home and am a student and my dp is also a student. The computer and paperwork and homework is taking over down stairs. I was thinking of both boys in the same room and using the box room as an office/study/ playstation room (playstation is in our bedroom at mo).

If your children share a room or have done in the past, please could you tell me the pros and cons.
It would help me make a decision as i'm not too sure at present.

I think there are only pros No cons and you get an office out of it.I always shared with my sister and it was fine

We tried this, but the boys slept better apart

In your situation I would do it like a shot. A no-brainer.
My children loved it.
They have separate rooms now, butonly so they can each have a room painted in their favourite colour I think. They still go to sleep together.

My two eldest share a room and they love it. In fact, my 7-year old was at a friend's house the other day, who has his own room and ds1 said he was really glad he shared with ds2 or he'd have to go to his room every time he wanted to speak to him. They sometimes even ask to share a bed because they like to be close

The main downside is that they seem to be more likely to mess around when they go to bed. This has been less of a problem as they've got older though. It can be a problem when they get on each other's nerves as they don't have anywhere to be on their own really, but if you can use the other room as a playroom that shouldn't be so much of a problem.

We have a smaller third room, which was (still is i suppose) DS2's room. However DH came up with the bright idea of DS1 &2 sharing a room. All the toys, tv and PS2 were in the bigger of the 2 rooms.
On the down side, DS1 wakes early, all the time, anytime from 5.30 onwards, so he has a tendency to wake DS2, who, if left will sleep longer.
However, the mess they make is contained.

My ds's shared a room for a couple of months when they were 2.5 and 1.

It was lovely for them (and very cute to watch sometimes ) but they messed about for so long at bedtime, and were so tired consequently the next morning, that it wasn't long before we gave up our 'office' to ds2 again!

Oh, and the moment one awoke, they woke the other one up to play rather than turning over and going back to sleep, so they were awake and playing/bickering (very loudly) quite early in the morning!

They may have to share again in the near future, as we are ttc no.3, but by then they will be at least 5 1/2 and 4, so hopefully they will be a bit more sensible at bedtime... yeah right, who am I kidding!

my older girls share, have done since they were 4y and almost 1. It's worked really well for us - they keep each other company when they go to bed (older one goes about 10/15 min later than the other one but she usually waits until her big sister is in bed too to sleep!
I can see some cons when they are older, but even with a 3 year gap ( they are 5 and 2 now) it's all good

I'd def do it in your situation

mine share a room (age 5 ds and age 6 dd).

they love it - they like the security of having the other one there.

A big con is how much they piss about before they go to sleep - I turn their light off at 7.30ish and I reckon they talk, sing and goodness knows what else for at least an hour (unless they are really knackered).

Other than that, it's all positive really.

Thanks for all your replys....you've helped me make up my mind and dp is happy with it so our boys are going in same room.

I'm leaving it for a week or so though we've all had the sickness bug apart from ds2 this week so doing our best to avoid him gettting it. he sucks his thumb so were constantly washing everything down.

Thanks again.

Gosh arn't you lucky, I wish we had separate rooms for our two, might get a lay in until 7.oo. Ohhhhhh to dream