Just thinking through which room we should use as a nursery and would love an external perspective.
On the attached floor plan, the biggest room at the front of the house is our bedroom and will continue to be (not least as our neighbours bedrooms join on either side and we want to minimise noise for them).
So we have a choice of two other rooms:
- Middle room, where I currently have all my clothes
- Husband’s study
Whichever room becomes the nursery, the current contents would move to the spare room in the loft.
Challenges with each room:
’1. Middle room
Looks into the converted side return, so bathroom windows at 90 degrees to the bedroom window on each side plus a glass roof over the kitchen of each house directly below the room - concerns about noise and light into the room.
Not an issue for a long while but once old enough, would there be a temptation to try to climb out onto the wall diving the two kitchen roofs? (Clearly we will have those things on the windows to stop a child opening them far enough to climb out, but later on (eg early teens) it would be just the sort of thing I would have done).
There are two steps on the landing between the room and the bathroom - I’m worried about tripping when carrying the baby to/from the bath.
Baby in the neighbour’s room next door and we can hear crying through the walls - will they disturb each other? The neighbour husband also does his noisy peloton in that room at odd times with no headphones.
Next to our room so good for me for getting up in the night, but noisier for my husband to continue to sleep.
2.Husband’s study
Water tank in the room (can’t be moved anywhere else) and the boiler in the kitchen is directly below it with pipes coming up from that. I’d put a carbon monoxide alarm in the room but are there safety issues?
Next to bathroom so shower/ flushing loo noise. But no one uses the adjoining room in the neighbours house.
Two steps between our bedroom and the room (although I navigate this in the night already to go to the loo!)
Further for me to walk in the night, more difficult for toddler to find us?
My husband’s beloved (and expensive) armchair and desk won’t fit up the stairs into the loft room (although would fit in the middle room).
As you may be able to tell, although I am trying to be impartial, I would prefer my husband’s study but he has just spent two years getting it just how he likes it so I do understand why he is reluctant. I suppose I would like to know if my worries about the middle room are valid or not. My priority is baby and then husband. I really don’t mind where my clothes are!
NB the other option is the loft room but I am assuming a different floor is a bad plan and it is also difficult to regulate the temperature up there.