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?

The youngest 2 share until the DD is probably 9.

Can you split the largest bedroom into 2? There are some amazing ideas on how to do so using platform beds and glass panels to share the light.

We had 3 bedrooms with 3 children, when I was a child. DSis and I shared DB had separate room. Cousins had 3 girls sharing, boy separate.

If your dd1 is happy to share, I'd go with that for now, but agree that things may change in a couple of years.

If you're house hunting, consider 3 beds with an extra reception room downstairs that could be used as a bedroom - they'll be more affordable than 4 beds.

I don't think the younger two will need to have seperate rooms till they hit puberty, so you might be able to get away with doing it when they hit secondary school. By which point your older daughter can be given the option of leaving if she doesn't want to share

Our DTwins are 4, and they have shared from birth. I think they'll share until about 7, boy twin is very clingy at night and simply wouldn't sleep if he noticed his sister wasn't in the room too. Eldest is a teen. Has his own room.

We have a 4 bed (but all large double or "triple" rooms) so plenty of room for everyone. We're looking to move to a much bigger 4 bed, and there's also a 5 bed just come on to the market but the bedrooms are smaller than our current ones.

I'm one of 3. My brothers shared the second biggest bedroom despite the age gap.

I'm one of 3. We had 3 bedrooms until I was about 15, then our house got extended which created another 2 bedrooms. When we moved into the house me and DB shared a bedroom (less than 2 yr age gap), I was about 6. DC3 was only a toddler and had the box room to themself, I assume as they weren't as good a sleeper and was and early riser then so my DPs didn't want them to disturb me and DB. Then when I was about 9-ish they moved me into the box room alone so I had my own space and DB and younger DSis shared. Then when I was 12 they moved DB into the box room alone and me and my DSis shared then until we all go out own rooms. I hated sharing with DSis which makes me apprehensive as we will have 3 kids in a 3 bed soon ourselves.

We have five bedrooms but they all seem to end up sleeping in with us at some point in the night.

We moved to get 4 bedrooms (and more living space).

We have DD1, DS and DD2 with 5 years between DDs 1 and 2. We had various permutations of who was sharing a room, but eventually the two DDs shared. It worked mostly ok until DD1 went to secondary and then it was very apparent that (if we were able to) we really needed to move to get them separate rooms.

We have a 3 bed rental and we don't make it work. Currently youngest (nearly 3) is still in with us.

We have a 10 year age gap between oldest and middle too then a 33 month age gap.

My two boys can't share (they rough house and injure each other badly if not constantly supervised), My youngest boy and girls can't share (they fight over everything and SCREAM the house down), My oldest and youngest get along better but can't share because he is a teen boy and she is a toddler girl.

We are looking to buy a house and will be splitting the biggest bedroom in two with a stud wall so each has their own room.

I have 3 children (girl 6yrs, boy 4yrs, girl 2yrs) in a 3 bed house. Currently all three children are in the same room as my son got lonely in his own bedroom. I suspect they will be sharing together for a few more years yet and then it will be the girls in the bigger room while their brother is in the box room.

We have a larger ground floor than first floor due to an extension so we've got plenty of living space. We have a living room, kitchen/diner/family room, and a smaller reception room that used to be the original dining room. In the future we plan to change the smaller reception room into our bedroom while the kids have the upstairs. We have a bathroom downstairs.

My kids boy / girl shared until the eldest was 12 and youngest around 9. That said dd was in bed most nights but officially they shared then I moved downstairs to what was their playroom and they had a bedroom each.

Kids are 12, 9 and 5 and we've got 4 bedrooms.
We were in a 2 bed until DC3 was 2. He was in our room in a cot and DC1 (boy) and DC2 (girl) shared bunkbeds, so until they were 6 and 9. It was OK but only because we had a big living room for all their toys so their (small) bedroom was only for sleeping. It's a lot easier now they all have their own space, especially when DC1 wants to be up quite a bit later than the others.

DC are 3,3 and 18 months. 4 bedrooms but in reality only 2 are use. DTs share a room, 1 room is a junk room and the nursery is unused because my delightful 1 year old only sleeps in my bed…..

I thought DTs might want separate rooms when they start school in Sept but now seems unlikely. They sleep with their beds pushed together and often in the same bed.

Your younger two could share for a few more years at least. I would expect your older child to share given the age gap.

We've got a 3 bed and DD17, DS12 and DD9

DS and DD9 shared until he went to high school and then we moved DD17 downstairs to our garage conversion so that they could have their own rooms.

We had a 2 bed ,DS DD sharing,was a long time before we could afford a 3rd bedroom, another £50k and moved counties. 3 bed,2 DS 7 year age gap, DD single room,till she left home. My DD private renting,Surrey borders,hughly expensive rent,DS DD shared 10 years,all their lives. Moved counties,3 bed,DGS unable to sleep on his own for months. Found in sisters room every morning.

We had 3, so the boys shared the 2nd room, until the oldest one turned 13. Then we converted the garage into a bedroom so they could have a room each.

I have 4, my kids argue to much to share rooms.

6 of us here (2 adults 4 children) in a 3 bed