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Bedroom conundrum

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MamaDuckling · 14/01/2018 22:09

We'll soon be extending our loft to create two decent double bedrooms (plus bathroom). The kids will sleep up there. My question is this; they'll have been used to sharing a room for about a year by the time we move back into our house... should I assume they'll want to keep sharing? They are 4 and 2 now and seem to like being together. Has anyone faced this and what did yours want to do?? Just trying to determine what kind of storage to specify for the carpenter!

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NapQueen · 14/01/2018 22:10

We are hoping to put our 2bed on the market soon for a 3bed and our two (dd6 and ds3) insist they want to share. We will decorate them a room each but he will get bunks and she will get a double so if they want to sleepover they can.

AJPTaylor · 14/01/2018 22:13

I would decorate and furnish the rooms for them but have a trundle bed in one. They might want to share but not for ever!

Bluntness100 · 14/01/2018 22:15

I'd make them excited now about getting their own rooms and asking how they wish them to be decorated.

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MamaDuckling · 14/01/2018 22:18

I think I'm more excited about the decor than they are - I secretly want them to have their own rooms so I can unleash my interior design dreams in them Grin

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MamaDuckling · 14/01/2018 22:20

I'd like a mid sleeper for him with room for storage underneath

DD has a stokke cot bed which will grow with her for a while. It'd be a bit of a squish to have all that in one room.

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parietal · 14/01/2018 22:20

they may want to share at 3 and 5 but will soon grow older & want separate spaces. my 2 have adjacent rooms & doors open all the time so they are always in & out of each other's rooms but still have their own space.

NapQueen · 14/01/2018 22:22

Look at the Kura Ikea mid sleeper. It can accomodate a second mattress underneath if needed then when they want to sleep alone it can become a play den or somewhere to put all the toys.

NapQueen · 14/01/2018 22:23

Alternatively you could create a massive master suite up there for you and dh and when the kids are done sharing put one of them into your old room?

GreenTulips · 14/01/2018 22:25

You'll want to redecorate when they are older anyway!

Do just beds in one room and do a storage play room for now

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MamaDuckling · 14/01/2018 22:27

That's what DH says GreenTulips... but I have spent too much time on Pinterest!

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MamaDuckling · 14/01/2018 22:30

I think the idea of setting out their rooms now, but with 'sleepover' option in one is perfect.... otherwise there'll be squabbles over who gets which room come the time to separate!
I'd have loved a big master room up there, but someone said something about burglars and the first rooms they come to being the kids - that was my mind made up!

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SkyIsTooHigh · 14/01/2018 22:43

Ours loved sharing but we separated them when our youngest came out of the cot as he wouldn't leave his sister alone and would have climbed bunk beds. He was a bit wayward, I don't think this is a common problem. They took the change in their stride. The idea of a trundle for sleepovers is lovely, but the old cotbed mattress on the floor will do the job for a couple of years, if it's not anyone's main bed. It's also lighter so they can move it about. One proper bed each is plenty! You can move them about. IME children care less about room decor than their parents. Paint the rooms different neutral shades, maybe cream and pale grey, neutral curtains, and use accessories & duvet covers for any theming.

sdaisy26 · 15/01/2018 00:19

Ours shared in our old house (with Ikea Kura hacked in to bunk beds) and loved it (was their choice to share as could have stayed in separate rooms, they started sharing at 3 & 1.5) but when we moved we asked what they wanted & 5yo esp wanted her own room.

Funnily enough a couple of months later she was keen to share again & it was the 3yo who didn't want to!

It works well with them having their own rooms, the toys are spread pretty evenly between (both large rooms luckily) & they go between the 2 quite happily when playing. We were also conscious that as a dd & a ds they couldn't share forever (though would have been happy with it for as long as they both were).

GiraffesAreNotShort · 15/01/2018 06:13

We also did the Ikea Kura as a bunk bed which gave my two the option of sharing even though they had their own rooms.

They were forced to share for around 2 months when we had a kitchen extension built and all the kitchen stuff needed to live somewhere so we put it in the other bedroom. The dining room held the new kitchen in boxes.

The novelty wore off Grin but my two were much older, 10 and 7.

Give them the option of sharing but give them their own rooms and unleash your design skills on their respective rooms.

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