DS and DD sharing a room or use the box room

[micegg]

We live in a 3 bed house and have a DD aged 2 and DS aged 7 weeks. One room is big and could easily take the 2 children sharing (I am thinking when DS sleeps better as DD is a light sleeper) and the other room is a box room (about 6ft x 7ft). Those of you that have a boy and girl sharing what sort of age were they when you decided they shouldn't share anymore? If you use a similar size box room as the bedroom could you give me any ideas about furniture, etc? I am thinking of a cabin bed if DS ends up in there instead.

We also have very small boxroom but just have a bed and toyshelves in there. The wardrobe and chest of drawers are in the larger bedroom and both share - it hasn't caused any problems yet, but may get harder as they get older. We thought we would do the medium height cabin bed with storage underneath at about age 6, but ultimately a loft conversion.

My DD(2.2) and DS(1.3) share a bedroom.We only have 2 bedrooms, and their room is the smaller one as a double bed wouldn't fit in there. They are already quite cramped in there with not much room for storage and no room to play but the council do not accept that they need separate bedrooms until DD is at least 10 years old.

micegg - how big is the big room? We divided our third (big) bedroom into two bedrooms and a bathroom, so DS (just 6) and DD (nearly 4) have their own rooms. DS's is quite small, and DD's is even smaller (not much bigger than your box room), but they do like having their own space!

Mine still share at 10yo (ds) and 4yo (dd). DD has a bedroom but doesn't use it, she prefers sharing with ds.

The big room curently has a double bed and fitted cupboards with plenty of floor space but due to the position of the window it wouldnt be suitable for splitting. I think we will let them share until we cn afford a loft conversion. Thanks for input everyone.

DD and DS shared until they were 10 and 7 even though we had the box room and they were quite happy to do so, had to move them ready for when DD went to secondary school so she could do homework in peace.

DS has now shared with DD1 and DD2 in different houses - now he is 6 he has just got his own bedroom... I suspect when we buy our own house they will all have to share... my tip is buy bunk beds as soon as lo is out of cot!!

When I had 2 (and 3) DCs all shared the bigger room. We all had storytime in there and then they went to bed.
They all slept well and didn't wake each other in the night. In fact when one was being sick the others didn't wake.

I would put bunk beds in the box room (not NOW obviously )
and use the big room as a toy/ play room
Mine are 6 and 8, and I wouldn't have issues about them sharing, but they have been used to having their own space.

if you are worried about a girl and boy sharing i think you have a while yet

i suspect that by the time your Dd is about 11 or 12 she might be bothered on " privacy" grounds. MOre likely before that because her brother might touch her stuff or generally annoy her

so if it suits you for them to share a room, why not try it and it see how it goes.

we only have 2 bedrooms and 4 dc's - baby is still cosleeping though, so ds1 (9) ds2 (4) and dd1 (3) all share until we find somwhere bigger. me and my brother shared by choice until we were 12 and 11 , we used the spare room as a playroom.

My DS (5) loves sharing with his sister (nearly 2)so much that when we had a chat about where the new baby (due this summer)would sleep and i said we'd have either a 'boy's together' or 'girls together' room depending on what kind of baby arrives, he said, 'Maybe that baby will go straight to live in heaven so that me and DD can keep sharing.' Not quite what i'd had in mind when I had a chat with him about the baby a few weeks before. They love the closeness and the company which I think is what he was trying to say...