Toddler moving rooms when new baby comes

[Emma2803]

This may not be the right place to post but I'll go for it anyway. Expecting dc#2 at the min. Dc1 is in the room closest to us at the min and is still decorated as "the nursery" spare room will need decorated for new baby (just white at the min) and it is on the other side of our room but the door is further away.
Plan on getting toddler a new big bed, curtains, duvet etc anyway as will need cot for baby.
Should we just do up the new room for toddler and leave his room the way it is for baby seeing as it's already done and is closer to our room (by a few feet) or would it be upsetting to toddler to be giving his room away? He will be 2.9 when dc2 arrives. I wasn't planning on painting his current room if he stays in it as the paint is still fine.
Any opinions?

We have kept the nursery as it was and moved dc1 into a new room as it made sense as dc1 wouldn't need all the baby stuff. Dc2 is due any day now and will obviously be in our room for 6 months anyway but we moved dc1 into the new room a few months ago so that she didn't connect her moving rooms with the new baby arriving. She is settled in and I don't think she even remembers she used to be in the other room. She is 15months

If the rooms are roughly equal sizes and you're intending them to have the same rooms as they get older then I really wouldn't shift the toddler. It will be enough for him having to share his home and parents with a new baby, so I'd be inclined to keep as much the same for him as possible. Baby will be in with you for some time in the early days anyway.

I moved dc1 well in advance, billed it as an adventure. She was in a big bed already and took all her own furniture with her, so she wasn't being kicked out, just moving house, as it were. Meant she was settled there before dc2 arrived.

NB there is nothing wrong with a plain white room for a baby!

Yes they will that's right, just like to get everything organised and rooms ready. D
Had ds room ready a few months before he was born. Rooms are both the same size (double rooms) and he has started calling the spare room the baby's room. He is probably too old in that he would remember it was his room and everything was exactly the same!

Lol Mrs badger by white mean undercoat!! Lol. As most of our house still is since we built it a few years ago!

that's still fine, can promise you the baby won't give two hoots

I'm planning on moving my DS, just turned 2, to a new room and putting the new baby due oct in his old one.

Plan was to move him fairly soon so that he has a while to get used to it and doesn't associate the change with the baby. Also going to get him a new bed and some new thing for his room to make it exciting for him! Fingers crossed it goes smoothly

We moved DS into his new room well before DD was due. It took a while to persuade him into a big bed but we had plenty of time and eventually he made the transition without upset.

We kept ds in the nursery when dd arrived (he was 19 months at the time). When he was 2 we decorated his now bedroom as a 'big boy' room but didn't move him into it straight away, just let him get used to it. At around 2.3 we moved his cot into the room and let him chose whether to sleep in the cot or bed. Then we moved dd into the now vacated nursery when she was 1.

We moved DTs about 4 months before the baby arrived. But they needed the slightly bigger room as they were going into beds and they wouldn't've fitted in the nursery room. Particularly as the baby was in with us for 6 months, by the time the baby was in their old room, they really didn't remember.

i doubt either of them will care how their rooms are painted..