What to do about this bedroom layout

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Currently we are in the 1st floor bedroom with en-suite, and our twins share the room next to us (it's bigger than a box room but not quite a double). The second floor bedroom is a guest room dumping ground and the dressing room is DH's office. The twins are getting to the stage where they need more space, and these are our options:

1. We move up to the second floor bedroom, knock the en-suite into the smaller bedroom so twins have a large bedroom each, leave DH's office as it is or
2. Twins share the top floor and DH moves his office into their current bedroom. The "dressing room" is big enough for a bed, has a window and obviously some wardrobes/storage, so it would feel almost like a separate bedroom.

We can't move the door to make the dressing room a completely separate bedroom because of fire regs - that's what we originally wanted to do. It does have a window in it but it's too high and couldn't be moved/enlarged very easily.

We can't move and don't want to.

Just to add - not fussed about the removal of en-suite devaluing the house as we will definitely not be moving for 10 years or more.

Don't want to just move one twin upstairs because it wouldn't be very nice having DH's office attached to it, if you see what I mean. There's nowhere else for him to have an office and he does need one unfortunately.

I think I'd move them up to the second floor. Seems the easiest solution and they'd get to stay together whilst having their own space.

Are you sure about the fire regs? When he had our loft done we had to have an escape velux on the front roof slope, but I’m sure I heard that this is no longer a requirement. A higher roof light will do I was told.

How old are they?

I think I'd move the up to the second floor too. Not sure how old they are but if they're still happy enough to share a room you could make the dressing room a play area/room and then when they're older make it a semi separate bedroom?

Also if you're planning on staying for 10 years I would definitely not remove the en-suite unless you absolutely had to, take it from a mother of teenagers, you will definitely be glad of an extra bathroom within that time frame!

I would probably move them upstairs. Could you put an ensuite in the dressing room? If it were me I would not want anyone having to go up and down the stairs if needed the toilet during the night.

I'd knock a second door into the en-suite so both bedrooms can access and then give them one each. You keep the master bath and entire 2nd floor

They're 7.

We had two separate builders in about separating off the dressing room, but were left with the feeling that it wasn't going to be possible unfortunately.

We could add an en-suite in the dressing room, but I think it would be very expensive because there's no water supply up there at all at the moment. Maybe worth looking into though thanks

Ooooh @NW2SW I like that idea! Why didn't I think of that

If you wanted to be super fair then you could incorporate part of the airing cupboard/en-suite. It's a lot of faff though to gain metre or two.

If they do kick off about unfair room sizes then you could always suggest an annual rotation, but honestly if you get the furniture right and ensure they can both have equal space for friends to sleepover and similar bed sizes then I don't see the fuss - not everything can be perfectly fair (I say this as the sibling who got the bigger room )

Also making them share the built in wardrobes in the larger room is another route to evening out the hand. As twins surely they're likely to steal share their clothes anyway, surely?

I was also going to say knock a second door into en suite, incorporate airing cupboard to make the secon bedroom slightly bigger and look at getting some cool built-in, space maximising furniture in there to make up for the size diff.

If money were no object I would get rid of the 1st floor en suite and make that space part of the smaller bedrm, then add in an ensuite for the second floor bedrm - could maybe put it over the existing ensuite so the plumbing just has to go straight up?

You move up to the 2nd floor, make the en suite a jack and Jill type bathroom with a door from each room.

I would give them the top floor.

Keep them sharing the bedroom and then they have a second dressing/play room area. They’re still together but can get a bit of space if wanted or needed.

I wouldn’t go with the other bedrooms and to give them one each will be unfair size wise, whichever way you do it.

Do they actually want separate bedrooms? Friends spent a fortune when they took in young relatives so everyone eventually ended up with their own space. They assumed their children (not twins but less than a year between them) would want to keep their own bedrooms but they actually really enjoyed temporary sharing and ended up using the spare room as a gaming room for everyone.

They might also enjoy having the privacy of their own floor.