How to fit 2 babies in a box bedroom

[Mummy2823]

We live in a small 2 bed house with a double bedroom and a box room.
DD is 9months and now pregnant with #2. New baby will be in our room until around 9 months so they won't need to share a room until DD is around 2 years old.
How do I fit a 2 year old and a 9 month old into a box bedroom.
Can't have bunk beds as top bunks are 6+ and struggling to think of any other idea. Share a small double? 🤔😫

Or a rollaway bed that pulls out from under the other bed.

Can you swap bedrooms and you have the boxroom?

A cot and a toddler bed should work. You can get space saver cots.

How big is the box room? My DC shared the smaller of our 2 rooms and we could fit 2 toddler beds in there.

Keep the baby in with you until you move house?

You might be alright with a kids mid height bed, one that has a tent on top type of thing and then put a cot/bed below it. It depends on the 2 year old is. She might be okay with it.

For different reasons we used a futon mattress on the floor.

(We had twins and they had a tendency to fall off anything).

What's the plan long term? Just to see if this is a temp fix or life.

Swap bedrooms all adults need is a bed and a shelf on the wall as a night. Mist box room will fit a double bed or even a king just with accessing the bed at one side.

You can’t really put a 9 month old in a double bed. But if you can fit a double in there then you could have that room and DCs share the bigger bedroom, then there would be room for a proper cot and a toddler bed.

You might need to get someone in to do something bespoke.

I'm one of 3 and growing up we had 2 doubles and a box. My parents moved the wall between the box room and the second room to make it slightly bigger. After the wall move it was 6ft 8 by 6ft. All bought furniture had to be cut up and when I had it they had some built in wardrobes put in and my dad built the bed.

What are you hoping to fit in the room just beds or wardrobes/drawers too?

Have you/could you reverse the door so it opens out? If you do you could look at doing a giant floor bed in the room for them to share.

We rotated who was in the box room. Before the wall was moved all 3 of us shared the biggest room. At 13 my eldest sister had it for the longest until she was 21 and moved out. Then my little sister had it from 11 but only lasted a year she didn't cope very well in it and she felt caged in. She has endless energy and she needed space. I then had it for 6 years and loved my little room! My parents went out one day and I got fed up of my sister's complaining and just generally being difficult to live with. So we moved rooms and by the time they got home we had pretty much completed the swap. My sister chilled out instantly and her random rage stopped.

It's hard to tell now but just something to consider as they get older. Some people find the small space cosy and others its a cage. Thankfully two of us found it cosy!

You put a bed in the box room which you sleep on, put the kids in the bigger room with all your stuff. If you can't move before the oldest is 6, swap when they can use bunk beds. Or keep the second in with you.

ideas

https://www.digsdigs.com/26-delightful-shared-nurseries-baby-toddler/

We fit two cot beds facing each other into our box room. There's nothing else in there but it's fine. They're 4 now and really need bigger beds but depending on size of your older one, you might be able to keep it a bit longer. Then get low rise bunks.

They're awesome but I think you missed the BOS room bit

You couldn't fit a double in our box room . How large ore people's box rooms if they're fitting a double bed in?

All the kids need is a bed too tho surely? Where would you put the adults clothes? Much better to retrieve the kids clothes from the adults room even if one is asleep then vice versa

Toddler bed and space saver cot?

Like this

https://direct.asda.com/george/home/kids-nursery-furniture/compact-cot-and-mattress-bundle/060004359,default,pd.html?cmpid=ppc--geor-------_-dskwid-_dc&utm_campaign=pla:Home_BAU-_Performance_Max&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsvWrBhC0ARIsAO4E6f-rbz5jTVEAe9ClMQEBHfcH32aDrZWV7iGeljPSBAyOJcFZ5IwXNGQaAjA7EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Can you fit two cot beds? Or put them in a single floor bed together?

If it fits anything bigger than a single bed then it is not a box room.

You can get low bunks with the bottom bunk on the ground but I'd still want to keep the baby in with you until the elder was three rather than two.

You can get bunk bed cots/toddler beds, with really big safety rails. I'd keep the baby in with you a bit longer and then go for one of those.

Or is there any other room you could use as your bedroom and then have the kids in the double and use the box room for something else.

Top and tail in a single?

Lotto win for a three bed house?🤞

We just kept our youngest in with us until we could move to a bigger place. She was in a cot bed in our room until she was 4. It wouldn't have fitted in the box room with dc1's single bed.

we had 3 in a 2m x 3m bedroom for a while, until youngest was 2 and the oldest almost 6.
the oldest was in a toddler bed. dc2 on a matress beside (matress under bedframe during the day) and dc3 in a cot (with ghe side taken off as they were a bloody climber.
there was also a 2 door wardrobe in the room which contained all their clothes and a drawer of toys.