Fitting 2 toddlers in small bedroom

[Ohlittleone]

We have 4 children and a 3 bedroom house (baby no. 4 was a surprise). The children's rooms aren't very big. For the older two they have bunk beds and plenty of space but the younger children's bedroom is even smaller. It is currently my almost 3 year old's room but our youngest is one and right now in with us but I feel she is ready to go in with the toddler (and we are ready to have our room to ourselves finally as well). They're obviously too small for bunk beds right now so I'm trying to decide whether or not I should get them a double floor bed to share or get another toddler bed, although leaving a gap between them will mean minimal floor space in the room.
What have others done? Are there any options I'm not thinking of?

If you can fit a double bed into the small room then I’d take the small room and give the children the bigger room.

all we do is sleep in the room so makes more sense to give the children the bigger rooms,

I'd go with a double floor bed in the the smaller bedroom for them. You can always put a long pillow divider in the middle so they don't disturb each other. Does the 1yr old sleep through yet or will he/she wake the 3yr old?

The advantage of a double is that you or your dh can bunk in with them if they're unsettled or ill.

That wouldn't be a bad idea but I really don't think my partner would go for it as it would mean our clothes would need to be kept in their room as we wouldnt have space for them in the small room. Right now we have some of their clothes in our room and my plan was to move another chest of drawers with clothes out of their room and into ours to make more space as I would rather their clothes in our room than vice versa.

The 1 year old is still waking up 1-2 times a night but my 3 year old sleeps quite heavily so I hope it won't be too big a problem. I'm starting to night-wean her off the breast too hoping she might start to sleep through after that.

That had also been my thinking with the double bed. My partner works away a lot so I'm often doing bedtimes alone and I thought being able to put them down together in one bed might be easier (I often do this now in our bed and then move the 3 year old through to her room after although have been trying to move away from doing that so she is getting used to going to sleep in her own bed).

I find that my kids have no self awareness when they are sleeping and roll over and around too much to share a bed without me being a central buffer between them. I think a double floor bed would lead to very disturbed sleep.

could you have the Ikea cabin bed with floor bed underneath?

could you have a trundle bed that pulls out from under a normal height bed?
could you have two Murphy beds? (Pull down wall beds)
or two floor beds with raised padded perimeters

I think a single bed with a pullout trundle bed underneath. It worked for our girls aged 3 and 1 .
It meant plenty room during day and easy pull out ready made bed at bedtime.
Their room was small and I put their chest of drawers out in the hall just outside their room,and that worked well too .

I had 5 kids and 3 bedrooms .
I didn't like bunks as when kid in top bunk was sick over the edge it splattered into below bed.
Also top child complained child on bottom bunk was moving around too much and shaking the bunk !

Can you fit in 2 toddler beds in an L shape? So there's more space to move around. Could get underbed storage for them too

Trundle bed, though bear in mind it'll mean needing to be strict about tidying up toys before bedtime or you won't have space to pull the second bed out again. But I'd want them to have space to play while still having their own beds.

Will the youngest be napping in there?

The trundle bed is a good idea. It also means that we would need to tidy before bedtime every night which is a good routine for us to get into I think.
The toddler beds in an L shape could also work, we would still need to take out the chest of drawers to do it but that's not a big problem.