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? 🤔😫

Definitely a floor bed, whatever size mattress fits in there on slats. Worked perfectly for my twins.

We got these guys in they werw amazing
https://www.kubbiko.com/all-furniture/child-youth-bedrooms/

The bedroom is the width of a double bed, so a double literally fits with no room at the side.
I will have a look at the links people have sent!
@Vettrianofan looking for a 3 bed currently, but not a lot around at the moment! Lottery win would be lovely tho

I'd keep the baby in the cot then cot/bed in my room with me and DH until they were 3. Then a low bunk and truckle bed that rolls out with a mattress on floor until you can afford to move. You might be able to afford to move earlier.

We had a 4ft bed (had a 3ft bunk above it, which was used from about 5) - So, a small double - against the wall in our box room and topped and tailed, starting with the kids in their sleeping bags still whilst young, moving to a duvet each as they outgrew them

You swap bedrooms. My boxroom can fit a double bed with a tiny bit of floor. You keep everything else in the other bedroom. We just sleep in there after all

Two small cots that turn into toddler beds? Or swap rooms and the children have the biggest?

So it's about 1.5m by 3m or something with the door on the other short end? What about the window and radiator?

The width of a double bed, so about 135cm wide? That will fit a 60cm wide cot and a 70cm wide junior bed side by side, and your older one can get in over the end of the junior bed.

Alternatively something like this where the toddler won’t fall out? https://www.wayfair.co.uk/Harriet-Bee--Asfrith-European-Toddler-80-x-180cm-2-Drawer-Standard-Bunk-Bed-V211130236-L1074-K~U100029125.html?refid=GX666876058002-U100029125_997201829&device=m&ptid=293946777986&targetid=pla-293946777986&network=g&ireid=243724316&PiID%5B%5D=997201829&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADgW2yIJ2iBd3mlEc_kd-AR8rdWxA&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsvWrBhC0ARIsAO4E6f__A6-y5DSqThXO2cM-il_55X1BY97UewJu_nkUK924MouOa8wqfrAaAuKmEALw_wcB

Our DCs (4.5 year age gap) shared a box room for years. To start with they were in a single bed (DS1) and a travel cot (DS2) until DS2 was old enough for a bunk bed.

Ah are you that misleading estate agent round my way who keeps lying that flats have "Two DOUBLE bedrooms" when the second bedroom is five or six feet wide and no reasonable person would describe that as a double? If so, stop wasting people's time with those stupid misleading listings that they're not going to buy because it won't fit their lives.

FYI it's not a double bedroom if it's not big enough to fit two beds (not mattress widths. BEDS). The national standard is set out below. There's no such thing as a size definition for a box room. HTH.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6123c60e8fa8f53dd1f9b04d/160519_Nationally_Described_Space_Standard.pdf

Toddler beds (or toddler bed and large cot) are far smaller than single beds and should fit in.

I put my eldest two in bunk beds when the eldest was probably only 3 - she was pretty sensible, a very good climber (for ladder), hadn't fallen out of bed in over a year, and had a top bunk with a really good barrier. And cushions on the floor for the first few months, just in case.

I’d swap bedrooms. Just need to have a bed in your room. Then can keep wardrobe in the kids bedroom where they can have a bed each.

Trundle bed? With a bed guard on the actual bed so your older child doesn't fall out onto the younger one.

Then when you're eldest is a bit older you could get bunk beds - they do low/mid height ones.

2 full size cot beds next to each other? Take the sides down on the elder childs cot when ready.

I would consider a boxroom to be smaller than their definition of a single bedroom. Mine is smaller than this.

c. in order to provide one bedspace, a single bedroom has a floor area of at
least 7.5m2 and is at least 2.15m wide

Neither of them will need a full length bed for some time. Could you put them one at each end of a single bed and create a divider of some kind to go over the mattress? Or get a bed frame built fitted into the length of the room, with one end having cot bars - 9 months seem to be too little not to have something to stop them falling out). Two cot mattresses on the bed frame? Use cot bedding for both? And drawers underneath would be good. Might last until they are long enough and old enough for bunk beds

You and dh in bunk beds in box room
Let your children you've chosen to have have some actual space.
2 kids in a box room is ridiculously cramped

If you're actively looking for a 3 bed which it sounds you are I'd just plan to have them in with you and then see how it goes. Definitely not bunk beds at that age, but you'd probably get away with 2 toddler beds strategically placed.

A 6 month old and a 2 year old don't need lots of space though (and they wont even be thinking about sharing until those ages which is a way off). OP has said they're actively looking for a larger house, do you feel better though for being pointlessly pathetic?

I wouldn't even give it head space for at least a year to 18 months. Baby will be in with you for the foreseeable future. You might be planning to move by then or you will have a better idea if low bunkbeds could work once you know how DD sleeps independently.

That’s only the standard required for new social housing or flats converted under permitted development rights and is far more generous that the vast majority of existing housing stock. Or new build private housing!!

It isn’t a standard that dictates what sized rooms estate agents can advertise as doubles.

The easiest way would be to keep the baby in with you until they're 3, and then get a bunk bed for the box room for them to share.

Agree with @Peablockfeathers. Really not sure what you get from being unkind to strangers, but that’s probably something you need to address privately with a trained professional. In the meantime, please don’t pollute supportive spaces with your own spite.
For what it’s worth, OP, I’m grappling with similar issues and found this a helpful thread. I also think it’a absolutely fine for young children to be together and in small spaces. My experience is that they are happier and sleep better in more child sized spaces and with someone else that they love close by.