Dividing an awkward room

[UnlawfulBananaPeeler]

I’m starting to plan for a 3rd child but we love our house . Currently daughter (3) and son (2) share the smallest room and we have a very large front bedroom with a large double window right in the middle . Our room is at the end of a corridor.

I was thinking would there be a way to temporarily divide the large front bedroom (rented house) so that we would have 3 rooms? I was thinking heavy curtains . Like on Pinterest but nothing every turns out right from there haha.

Has anyone had any experience of this or do I just sound crazy

You could also try using furniture (wardrobes, bookshelves, IKEA Kallax) as dividers. This article demonstrates a few of those ideas.

www.apartmenttherapy.com/design-solutions-for-shared-kids-bedrooms-168800

The bookshelves as room divider idea was something I saw at a friend's university years ago where rooms in halls were shared. They probably don't do it now but it really clearly delineated the room. Friends have built in raised beds in pods for theirs kids who share, but they don't rent so have been able to do whatever they wanted.

You won't need a third bedroom for at least 18 months.
I would spend that time looking for a more suitable house.

Look at the karalis room divider from b&q www.diy.com/departments/karalis-room-divider/1012710_BQ.prd (the picture shows two of them)

When I lived in a studio I used shelves to divide the room into a living and sleeping area. It worked quite well.

I used Ikea shelves and cupboards.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys not what I asked. As stated I love my house

Think I’ll look at the Ikea kallax I have a small one in their current room.

TheodoreRobinson love that idea and very affordable!

Before you use free standing furniture with small children take a long long long hard think after you read this www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2934936/Distraught-parents-young-children-killed-falling-items-furniture-TV-sets-rally-raise-awareness-tip-deaths.html

It's a very very dangerous idea

The kallax comes with a bracket for mounting with one end on a wall

Who would you be putting in the half separated room though? If the dc just leave it open. If you and a dc would it really provide enough separation? To me any furniture you use like kallax in a bedroom for very young kids would just be a dangerous climbing frame

As stated I love my house
I understand, but you currently love your house with 2 children in it.
Will you love it when you have 3 sharing a room and you and your partner are in the small bedroom?

I would obviously be securing it to the wall if I used kallax ect.

It would be the kids in the larger room. I was thinking of sepetating it if I had another girl or boy, so girl/girl or boy/boy on one side and then whoever on the other.

The smaller bedroom is probably a double so it doesn’t bother me. We don’t realk spend time in our room.
I’ll have a think.

It’s frustraiting that my house is so big everywhere else (downstairs, bathroom, large bedroom) it could have easily been a 3 bed. I think some on our street actually are but it’s like it’s been split up wrong!

Any scope for an extension into the loft or something?

No scope for extension. It’s a very old house. The loft is heavily lagged too .