My DH and I have a very large bedroom and our 3 DCs (5, 4 and 2) share the two smaller rooms (each half the size of our room). The girls (5 & 4) share and DS (2) has his own room.
I had a bright spark of an idea last week and can't decide if it was clever or sheer madness - and that would be to move all three into our big room, which would be enough room for them to have beds and play room (currently they don't play much in their rooms on the whole), and DH and I would move our (large) bed into one of their rooms, and have the other room as a clothes/sewing/reading room/study.
The advantages would be the kids might play more upstairs instead of in my face downstairs all the time , they get to share together, which at this age should be good fun, the whole family would gain a 'quiet' room where I can do my sewing, DH can do his marking, and eventually the kids can do their homework.
The disadvantages would be that our bed is only marginally smaller than the room we'd move into (like half a meter at the end and on one side of the bed), we'd both have to cut down on our crap and clothes beloved belongings to squeeze in. The actual moving of furniture might lead to divorce too :o
So, thoughts please!