Would you let your dc have the big bedroom and you have the box room?

[Pawslikepaddington]

Sorry for anyone who was on the bed thread last night! Our house isn't big enough for dd to keep her toys in the lounge, as it barely fits a sofa, table and chairs, but her room is a box room, so they don't fit in there either. Her friend came to play yesterday and said her house was too boring , as all the toys are stashed in the loft. My bed would fit wall to wall in the box room, but I only sleep in my room, so would I be best giving dd the bigger room (even though that is hardly huge) and me the box room? Has anyone else done this?

From your post, is it just you and dd at home?

If so I would be tempted to do this. Not to appease judgemental friend, but to make your own life easier by having readily available toys for your dd.

I'm not doing it to appease friend, I just felt bad as dd has no toys, and is really into sylavians etc, that can't really be packed away. It's just me and dd, so no one else would feel the squeeze!

God I sound like a ratty woman today, sorry!

yes do it.

i have dd's in main bedroom, dh and i have 2nd bedroom and dd4 will have the box room. in my old old flat, i gave dd's the big room and i had the small room there as well

God yeah swap rooms, you dont play in yours and she needs space so go for it.

Get some decent storage stuff as well, DS has storage boxes that go under his bed, and Ikea storage system which is fab.

Not at all!

I would do it because:

-toys available = happy dd and happy you

• if you had anyone to stay, would be easier for her to give up room and bed in with you in the smaller room than for you to move into smaller room with her (given that her smaller bed would be there).
• you would gain a playroom/2nd reception

Could you get her a day bed (Ikea have some) for her room which would be almost like a sofa during the day and a bed at night?

Seems like an OK plan to me.

We are in the box room and ds1 is in the large front bedroom. Our bed takes up the entire room and we have to climb over ds2's toddler bed to get to it!

It's partly because I don't sleep well at the front of the house, any noise wakes me up whereas ds sleeps through it, but also I think he needs a bit of space in his room now he's 11. He spends a lot of time in there and we just sleep. Dh grumbles about it though.

We haven't put ourselves in a box room, but dh and I do have by far the smaller bedroom - just room for our bed, with two sets of drawers squeezed in. Ds has what is I suppose the 'master bedroom'. We specifically did it that way around when we moved a few months ago. It meant that his toys could go upstairs (he's nearly 5 now) and his bedroom is also a sort of playroom. Works well for us. If you really only use your bedroom for sleeping, then I would use the larger room for your dd to sleep and play - as pooka says, not because of her friend's comments but because it makes sense to use the space that way.

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The second one is brilliant. Was drooling over it at ikea on monday, because you pull out the bottom to make a double bed, and still has storage. Downside is that you'd have to get 2 relatively think mattresses (not sprung for example) which would knock the price up to closer to £450, which is quite a hike. But I loved it.

The first one is very pretty, and a friend has it. Room underneath for a mattress, or trundle, or storage boxes.

Brill.

We did this (before we had two more dc's and moved) and it worked really well. Like you, our bed just fit but it turned out that we actually preferred it that way and were much more comfortable in that room.

Ooh, am really excited about it now. The White Co have a storage bed down from £550 to £300 and it is so beautiful-way over my budget tho . It's a bit like link no 2 pooka

I would say give DD the bigger room, that is what I have done with DS and what we will continue to do once we move into our new permenant home in january (we are living in temporary accomodation at the moment).

As you said, you only sleep in your room, whereas DD could have all her toys and everything if she had the bigger room.

Do it.Get yourself a cool bunk bed or Captains bunk and you can pretend you are 15 again yourself as well as saving space (as you can put storage underneath Everyone wins!

Or less excitingly for you..could you get DD one of those..like a raised bed with cupboard space underneath as an alternative to you having the small room..

Yes I would. I have friends with 3 boys who haev just moved into a 2-bed house (financial downsizing required). She and her DH are in the moderately large master bedroom and her 3 lads are in the box room. It made me quite cross with her actually.

Will defo give her the big room, but if I am I am not giving up my double! !

I would because you have the whole house to be in and your dd can have something that is hers alone. (Since the boys arrived we only use our bedroom to sleep in (before that did a lot of reading there, face masks etc., dh would play on his computer, TV watching .....). But when they're awake we're "on-call" all the time.)

Yep, we're abou to do the same. It'll mean having to climb onto the bed from the bottom end, but it means that the 3 dcs get more space = they'll spend more time in their bedrooms (they share 2 between them) = fewer people in the living room at any one time = more space for me+dh. So it's a selfish move, really !

Right, the move is happening at the weekend-we are room-switching! !