Baby and toddler sharing a room

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I have a 2yo DD and 7 week old DS. Currently DD is in her the nursery and DS in our room. Once he reaches 6m the plan was originally for DD to move into a different bedroom and DS into the nursery.

Currently the room earmarked for DD is full of 'stuff'. Plans are afoot for extra storage to be created in the house so we can move this out but realistically I'm not sure it will be done in 6m. I really don't want her moving into a room which is half storage.

Also DD currently wants me/DH to sit with her while she goes to sleep, which can take a while. I'm hoping this phase will have finished in 6m but who knows. It's often just me doing bedtimes so would be helpful if I could do them together.

As a result of the above I'm considering having DD and DS share the nursery once he reaches 6m, at least for a year or so until the other room is ready and/or each of their bedtime routines are efficient enough that I can do them one after the other without it taking forever.

DH is a little less sure as he's worried they will wake each other up in the night. He also has not entirely positive memories of sharing a bedroom as a child.

Obviously it's a few months off but we kind of need to decide so we can plan when to start prepping the spare room. Can anyone share their experiences of young children sharing? Is it bad enough that we should just pull out all the stops to get the spare room ready?

Can your DD stay in the nursery and the baby go in the spare room? They'll be less bothered if is still full of storage (our DS room was the junk room until he was about 2!)

@mynameiscalypso yes that could be an option. My main issue with it is that knowing my DH, if we leave any of this stuff in the room when it becomes a bedroom then it will stay there forever! Also we have got a double bed in there now and no room for a cot as well, it would be a big job to swap them.

My 2 share but from 8 months and 3.
My toddler sleeps through any of his brothers wakes and bedtime is a lot easier they both get the same story use the same night light etc.

I was also skeptical the only problem we have is baby thinks 5.30-6ish is wake up time so generally he comes into our room at that point

My DD was 2y2m when my DS moved in with her (when he turned 6m). I was endlessly worried about him waking her up, as she's such a good sleeper and he's absolute not. But it turned out to be nothing to worry about. She sometimes wakes up when he cries, but if so then she just rolls over, pops her thumb back in and ignores him. Occasionally she's needed a quick kiss and a "go back to sleep", but occasionally she genuinely seems to sleep through it all too. I have to be honest here though and add that she's always needed a lot of sleep, and slept through the night from 8 weeks. My DS actually sleeps much better in their room than he did in ours too, so doesn't wake up as much as he used to (maybe one night in 3 now).

When we hear him wake up, we go in quietly and take him out the room, change him and feed him in our room, then plop him back into their shared room and he falls back to sleep fairly quickly. As long as disturbance is kept to a minimum hopefully you won't have too many problems.