Those with bedrooms on different floors

[greenbananas29]

Do you mind it? Do you have children downstairs and you upstairs or vice Versa?
Not sure how I feel about it and looking at a potential dream property.
Any advice welcome! Thanks

We are just about to do this - having a loft conversion. And we haven't decided whether to put 2 children up there or us up there and all 3 on first floor. Mine are all primary age at the mo.

I'm interested to hear too therefore.

Bit different in that we have all been on one floor up to now but teenage daughter going to be moving to a bedroom on another floor shortly. I used to be very anxious about it but now not so much. She cannot wait, maybe that's part of it!

When I was very little I wanted to be as close to my parents as possible. In fact their bed was my ideal bed of all time. Right in the middle. Right in between them was the perfect spot.

As a teenager I wanted to be as far away as possible as they were insufferable enough during the day I want my peace at night.

now as an adult I occasionally visit with my kids. I want to be as far away as possible as my kids are so noisy.

For a potential dream property I would prefer the bedrooms to be on different floors but then again it depends on the age of the children. Especially since you refer to them as children I assume they are quite young. They would benefit from being as close as possible. Climbing through the darkness at night from a different floor just to get to mummy sounds terrible.

We had ds on floor below us and dd from age 2.5 to now. Tbh it was awful when he was young but brilliant now he's older. I think ok to have children on a different floor to you as long as they're together which was the problem for us.

We have a loft conversion and moved in when DS was 3. He's 10 now. It's worked well. When watching TV in bed at night we aren't worried about the noise or any other noises for that matter!

When he was so young, I used to pop him in my bed while I showered in the en-suite.

The only downside, if you're bothered by that, is we used a baby monitor for way longer than most. Until he was about 8. But that was just so that we didn't shout through the house, he could just let us know he was awake in the morning or the rare occasion he wanted us in the night. He never got out of bed, just asked and one of us would go down to him.

We have a spare room on the same floor as his bedroom which will be made in to a study for him when he's at high school, so that he doesn't have tech in his room still. I like having this space between us for privacy, and I never have to share my bathroom with him.

DS sleeps downstairs at both ours and his dads house. He’s 9 and no issues at all.

Until last year we had a townhouse new build over three floors. DH and I were in the master bedroom on the top floor and DS was on the floor below us from 6 months old. Personally I hated it - felt really odd being away from him and I worried about the implications of being on a different floor to him in the case of fires/break ins (slightly catastrophic thinking there!) It didn't bother DH at all apart from the faff of having to go up and down stairs in the night to settle him rather than just popping next door.

We've since had another child and moved (to another three storey house!) but all the bedrooms are on the top floor together and I much prefer it. In fact one of my essential criteria for the house hunt was having all bedrooms together. Having said that I don't know if it would bother me as much if my kids were older ie teenagers. Growing up I had friends who had downstairs bedrooms and my sister is currently looking at having a loft conversion to get a master suite away from her young dc 😂

What does your gut say OP? I think only you can know if it would bother you.

Very small kids I wanted is close by. When they were 11&8 we had a rebuild abs they're in the upstairs level (converted bungalow) with two windows each they can use as fire escapes in their bedrooms /bathrooms plus another fire escape velux in the other upstairs bedroom. Master suite is downstairs.
We love it ... so do they

DS (15) is on the ground floor and I'm on the 1st floor. It was his decision though. Not had any issues so far.

We live on the first and second floor of a property, dh and I sleep on the first floor and the dc are in the two rooms on the second floor.

Once they are teenagers we will move them to smaller rooms on the first floor, and we will take over the attic entirely.

Oh and we've been that way since the dc were 4 and 7.

We've been on the top floor since moving here just before youngest was two.
Never given it a second thought.

We live in a town house. We sleep on the second floor and my 7 year old and baby sleep on the first floor. My oldest has never minded being on a separate floor to us. My noisy cat sleeps on the ground floor and we can't hear him two floors up :) I do worry about him sometimes though!

We're in a dormer bungalow and have two girls 16 months apart. When they were tiny we all had rooms downstairs. When they were 3 and 4 we moved them upstairs to a shared room. Like a PP said, we kept a baby monitor on for longer than normal because we wanted to hear them in case they called out in the night. Now they are 5.5 and 7 the monitor has been gone for about a year and it's great! Not sure I'd be so keen on them being downstairs and us upstairs, but only due to irrational thoughts about an intruder coming in!

Sorry for jumping on here @greenbananas29 but I was in the middle of writing a thread about exactly the same! We’ve bought our dream home and knew the bedroom situation would annoy us I. The end…..

there is one room on the 2nd floor and our toddler will need to go there when the baby is born… anyone got experience of a toddler being on his own on a different floor? He will need to move rooms to accommodate a new baby… also thinking of putting the baby straight up there instead to avoid change for him. Thoughts?

Our daughter is on the second floor and we're on the first in a Victorian semi. She's been there since she went into her own room at 4 months old.

It's never been a problem at all, even with going up and down 2 or 3 times a night during some tricky sleep patches. I honestly prefer having all the child paraphernalia contained on a different floor of the house!

We had dd on the ground floor with us - she was 3 and ds upstairs, he was 7

Worked fine and he liked his space away from his sister

Before that they both shared the ground floor bedroom