Ideas for splitting the main bedroom so two daughters have space

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Have two dd 4 and 9 sharing the largest bedroom in our house. Dd9 needs her own space due to fast approaching puberty. Ds2 is in the box room and needs his own room due to interesting sleeping habits. Me and dh in second bedroom. Need ideas on how I could split the master bedroom, maybe divider or curtain? Not practical to move or for us to sleep downstairs due to money and open plan living room/ kitchen. Any ideas welcome!

What are the measurements? What’s your budget!!

There was a similar thread a while back and room dividing bunk beds were suggested

This kind of thing https://funkybunkbeds.com/product/room-divider-bunk-bed/

https://funkybunkbeds.com/product/room-divider-bunk-bed/

this is the idea but you can obviously do it cheaper!!

Great minds!

I think there are tutorials online to make them if you are at all handy

Sorry dimensions are 4.1 by 2.6 metres, so very tight. I can fit a 'normal' bed along the width but not a bunk or ladder style bed due to the frames being too large and effectively blocking the whole width of the room.

Would something like this work?

Possibly, would need to be custom built and intersect the window leaving very narrow rooms, but its something I could measure up and consider, thanks

Any option for a side window? If so a horizontal split would be better usable space.

Going up into the loft not an option? Would be more expensive but a better long term solution.

https://amzn.eu/d/01hJo4iz

something like this? One would have the window but if they let light through that should be ok?

Ok I can’t post a pic so will have to describe.

id do divider bunks as others described, bang in th middle of the room with the long side parallel to the long wall. This splits your room into two long skinny pieces; the walkway beside the bunks would be about 65cm on each side which is actually ok to stand in and dress etc.

as The bunks are 2m long you have 2m spare
length in the room. Allocate 1.2m at the window end so your girls both have a decent desk 1.3m wide under the window (slim partition between or kallax if storage needed).

this leaves 80cm walkway in front of the built in wardrobe for both girls to access the wardrobe and the girl further from the door to reach her area

To add I would use ikea kallax and hack it for the bunks. Buy two (you can buy second hand) and use the second one to boost up the base high enough for drawers underneath, opening on both sides. If you get the ikea nordli modular drawers, two sets @ 80cm wide and one set @ 40 cm wide for perfectly and you could do this on both sides for the two girls.
i actually have built this and it looks great.

This sounds like a great idea, thanks. No option to add windows as terraced house. Long term we want to extend and add a bedroom downstairs but with 2 in nursery and me working part time atm its just not affordable for now. I was hoping they'd last a couple more years sharing but my eldest seems to be developing early!

Like this but use nordli drawers underneath. As I said we have 80,40,80 cm wide and two drawers deep (about 50cm total height). You could do it facing out on both sides so each child gets a set of drawers (Pinterest https://pin.it/6kywH19nI)

you can easily board off on side of the lower bed and use the remaining bits of the cannibalised 2nd Kura to build a support for screens round the top bunk.

The 2 year old will hopefully sleep better soon. Will it be better to wait till then and let the two youngest share in a more traditional day up and give the eldest the small room? It’s quite a big age gap and will only get worse as she hits her teens.

Facepalm I mean Kura bunks, not kallax

So the problem is ds goes to bed about 6pm and dd2 about 9pm, shes a night owl and he's an early bird! It might resolve but hard to see it, but its an idea certainly

I'd consider that ideal for the youngest 2 to share. Your DS can go early, settle to sleep and then DD can go to bed later. You can do all the night prep, undressing, read stories etc, in your room. If longer term you're planning to extend, this will fit the younger 2 for at least 3-4 years before you need to give each child a room.

Something like this so a curtain can be drawn across the room for privacy when needed?

https://amzn.eu/d/01oargbd

This is the room atm, wondering if I could do the bunk bed idea using what i have already. Husband is very good at diy

My parents split our bedroom just by having our chests of drawers going down the middle, one opening one way, the other opening the other side. Doesn’t really help with privacy though - just delineates sides ! Didn’t bother us but we were closer in age.

I'd move the window bed to where the toys are, declutterand put the toys in the space under the bunk bed and put up a room divider

Of you rotate the bed to come out from the wall. Put some wood behind the ladder to block it off and then could fit a mattress the other wise (preferably rises on slats) then you have created two spaces.

A curtain could cover the ‘doorway’ area.

To bring light into the darker half near the door, could you get a sun tunnel https://www.theskylightcompany.co.uk/a-guide-to-sun-tunnels/

Oh that looks really nice. X

When I was a teenager we had L-shaped bunks, with a curtain for the top bunk that was in line with the bed but hung from the ceiling, and a curtain on the bottom bunk (so bottom bunk person’s feet stuck out from the curtain but the curtained bit included some of the floor space that’s under the top bunk. Created some privacy.

you could do that with the beds you have already I think by placing part of the high riser over the single bed, in an L shape. Though I wouldn’t do that at the window end if it was possible to avoid that.

We bought a house that has the type of division that you are talking about. There was a partition from the window right up the middle of the room, with a door on each mini-bedroom. Because the window wasn't quite in the middle and one mini-bedroom had the window, the partition had a large window in it with frosted glass so there was some light in the other bedroom.