3 children how many bedrooms in your house?

[Mamabearrr83]

Pretty much what the title says, if you have 3 children how many bedrooms do you have and how do you make it work if only a 3 bed?

Preferably people with similar ages to me (DD9, DD2 and DS1)
How long realistically can the 2 younger share or the 2 girls share a bedroom?

We have 3 dc and 3 bedrooms. However, downstairs we have living room, kitchen and second smaller reception/dining room, all accessed from main hallway...and a conservatory off the living room.

We use the conservatory as a dining room instead and the second reception room as bed 4 so the dc have one each (eldest is downstairs and a teen).

If you look to move in future I would always recommend looking at both 3 and 4 beds...depending on the layout a 3 bed can be just as suitable. And they're often cheaper and in far greater quantity than 4 beds because people often have a total aversion to a downstairs bedroom.

We have 4 bedrooms. Did have 3, but did an extension for extra bedroom and bathroom.

Youngest was in with us for the first 2 years probably, but still comes in every night 😂

Oldest 2 were close in age (less than 2 yrs but opposite sex) and they shared for about 4 yrs

We have 4 but feel life would be much easier with 5 so good luck to you sorry.

I think in your situation the younger 2 could share until your middle child is 7 at least

3 bedrooms. DS 15 in the smallest room. DS 5 and DS 2 in together.

Thinking by the time the younger two are getting fed up of each other in their space, DS1 will have moved out. Or we might move somewhere bigger.

We do live abroad though with bigger bedrooms than the UK, so the smallest bedroom would fit a double in. The younger two's room is long, like 2.5 x 5 metres I'd say.

3 bedrooms, would love an extra one or 2! Three boys 15 year old has own room 14 and 11 year old share.

Two bed-house. I have three girls and they all shared until they went to university. They were relatively close in age, roughly 18-21 months apart.

I have 4 bedrooms. Mine are older now but similar age gaps and sexes to yours. I have DD1 (17) and twins DD and DS 11.

The twins shared until they were 8 (they were happy to do so) and then we moved them into their own rooms. We knew they’d need their own room eventually. We felt the age gap between dd1 and dtd was too big for them to share really.

I think if I had 3 girls, or a smaller age gap between the 2 girls it would be easier to get them to share but having a girl and boy close in age I wasn't sure what age they would need their own rooms

We have 4 bedrooms but it meant we lost our spare which is a pain.

To counter this we put double beds in all rooms so if we have guests our youngest sleeps in with us and the guests have his room.

I grew up as 1 of 3. We had three bedrooms. I was the only DD so always had the box room and my brothers shared (7 year gap)

3 bedrooms, 3 boys. Hoping to move before they're teens, but if not they'll have to keep sharing. I'm sure they'll live.
You've got a good few years yet before your youngest will need their own rooms, I wouldn't worry about it yet.

My 9 year old would love to share a room but as she gets older I'm not sure how long that will last with a 7 year age gap between them, and having a girl and a boy I know eventually they will need their own rooms too, 4 bedroom houses are just so expensive though!

If she’s happy to share now, it might be worth a try. It’ll be easier to make the move now and for her to get used to it rather than asking her in 5 years when the girls will be 14 and 7.

My eldest dd has asd which we also factored into our decision.

As a teenager I preferred sharing with my toddler brother than with my teenage sister. We used to swap the rooms round for different combinations every year or two.

The problem you’re going to have OP is if your DD1 is probably going to be an early teen when she starts sharing for the first time (same as I was) and that’s a really tricky, resentful time. I was 12 or 13, peak hormones, and really upset about it. I’d advise making sure she’s always aware that that will be the case, or changing earlier.

Incidentally, my little brother once told my mum “I know why you have 3 children, it’s because you’ve got 3 wombs”, my mum started explaining about 1 womb and lots of eggs, and he said “no! You’ve got 3 wooms- my woom, yours and daddy’s woom, and Dsis1 and Dsis2’s woom!”

We had three bedrooms and then moved to a four bed when my eldest two were 10 and 8. It was the impending secondary schools that nudged the shift, the kids still enjoyed sharing a room at that point and I think they missed chatting until they fell asleep. At 17 and 15, I think they prefer having a bit of privacy but they are in rooms opposite to each other and often leave their doors ajar and chat across the hallway 😁

Fwiw, I was one of three and shared a room with my younger sister until I left home and that was fine too. I think there may have been benefits, we have a really good bond despite the age gap, I was able to see things she was struggling with early and flag that she needed help quicker than would have been identified if we didn't share that space and, when I left home, I found house sharing a doddle partly because I was already accustomed to living in a tightly packed house.

At the moment she is more than happy to share but yes I'm well aware that's going to change that's whats making me really unsure! We're renting a 3 bed at the moment but the 2 bedrooms are tiny and looking to buy our own house, (will definitely look for one with bigger bedrooms) a 4 bed is way out of our budget and we need to move in the next year but I didn't want to jump straight and buy a 3 bed and regret it very quickly!
Oh bless him 🥰

Can you change rooms and split a room? My friend moved into a traditional old 3 bed semi (so good size rooms) and gave her two youngest (boy / girl - same age gap as yours) the master which her tradie husband and his tradie brother split into two rooms. They took the second bedroom. Older dd was in the box room.

Ive just noticed youre renting so splitting rooms is out. But certainly something go look for the possibility of when buying

Mine are now DS1 17, DD 15 and DS2 13.
until 3 years ago the 2 boys shared a room, we then moved and felt it was necessary for the 2 boys to have thier own rooms as DS1 was approaching mid teens and exams etc

There were only about 5 four bedroom houses in our budget, and luckily one of them was suitable in terms of location - it is an excouncil house that has been extended which I know some people turn thier noses up at but it’s solid and spacious. (Although even the ‘roughest’ part of our town is better than the best part of many cities! )

2 bedrooms and a boxroom which just took a single bed. 3 dcs. Dd2 and Ds shared while he was little until he took over the boxroom and dds shared even as young adults. Wasnt ideal, but we got there.

Only renting for the next couple of months so looking for a house to hopefully buy rather than renting again, yes this was my original sort of plan as long as I can find somewhere with big enough bedrooms :)

Mine are older now but we had dd, then a 13 year gap, then dd2 followed by ds (18 month gap)
Dd1 had her own room and the younger ones shared until dd2 was 3 and ds was 18 months.

Luckily we have 2 downstairs living rooms so made one into a bedroom for dd1 and gave the younger 2 a bedroom each.

I have 3 in a 2 bed but they are 6, 6 and 5 and all girls so they are quite happy to share a room and hopefully it works for a while.

Having grown up with a lot of siblings and always sharing rooms, I would say it's usually not a problem for mixed sex siblings of a similar age to share until the eldest is about 9/10. After that it can work but it's not ideal anymore. But it will depend on the personalities of your children.
I shared with my brother when we were 10 and 8 and it was fine, we got on and kept to ourselves. We shared again briefly at 16 and 14 and it was not fun.

4 now as we built an extension but at one point there were only 2 and it was quite a squeeze.

we have 4. I wish we had 5 as needs office upstairs. currently using bedroom 4 as office and our son co sleeps with us who is 5

The younger 2 could share until they were 8/9 ish.

I have 3 and have lived in 3 and 4 bedroom houses. They were primary school aged when they shared.