My boys are 6 & 7. They had the option of moving into separate bedrooms but they didn't want to so the bedroom that was meant to belong to DS2 is now a spare room. There is nothing wrong with sharing with a sibling. People all over the world do it without any kind of emotional damage. In fact I think that some people would argue that sleeping in a room all alone is less natural than sharing a room.
If you want to extend just make sure that you're buying a house that it won't be too troublesome to extend.
Thanks so much for the advice guys, we have started looking at 2 bedders so we can at least get something. Still looking at 3 but the 2 bedders we have seen have much bigger living areas in our price range.
Yeah easily can extend before teenages. Thanks for all the different thoughts. Much apprecaited!
Totally do-able and good luck with the property hunting!
We have two (21 months apart) who share a room generally as there are only two bedrooms upstairs (ours and theirs). However, you might need to be a bit flexible depending on the phases that they go through. We had musical beds/bedrooms for a while. DS2 was in with us, then in with DS1 but then they were waking each other up and so we were moving DS2s cot into the loungeroom each night. And for a while DS1 was on a mattress in our room. My point is that you can totally make it work!
Now with No 3 on the way, I think we will be back to musical bedrooms for a while! We've even contemplated putting a cot in our large ensuite! LOL.
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