1 bedroom 1 playroom, or separate bedrooms?

[jellybean88]

How did you go with boy girl sharing a room? Ds is 18months but prob be 2 when dd moves in with him and dd 6months

[willow5]

I had a bedroom and a toy room for DS1&2 when they were younger and it was great! If you didn't get toys tidied before bed it was no problem either, the bedroom was always tidy and ready for sleep. You can just shut the door to the toy room so you don't have to see the chaos when there's no time to clean it. I had friends who's kids liked to trash the beds every time they came over and the toy room kept the beds clean and intact too

[LimeSlice]

I had a bedroom and a toy room for DS1&2 when they were younger and it was great! If you didn't get toys tidied before bed it was no problem either, the bedroom was always tidy and ready for sleep. You can just shut the door to the toy room so you don't have to see the chaos when there's no time to clean it. I had friends who's kids liked to trash the beds every time they came over and the toy room kept the beds clean and intact too

This is undoubtedly the biggest advantage of the dedicated toy room - closing the door when you can't be arsed!!

[willow5]

This is undoubtedly the biggest advantage of the dedicated toy room - closing the door when you can't be arsed!!

Absolutely!

[Phteven]

My experience has always been that the boys want to be where I am. Play rooms just don't work because if I am in the lounge they just bring all their toys into the lounge.
I tried putting a sofa in the playroom so I could lounge and read while they played but I never really used it so our play rooms have always been the least utilised rooms in our homes.
Funnily enough they do play in their bedroom....

The advantage of 2 bedrooms if you don't have a spare room is that you can turf a child out so guests can have a room.

[Heaven]

I have both my girls in one room (they are 4 and 2 yrs). We have a play area already, and a study, and a spare room, so they don't actually have to share because there's an extra room, but I wanted them to. I think it's good for them. At their ages I didn't think they needed a whole room to themselves. They get along very well and they like being in there together instead of alone. I would do it!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Children living with parents is love? What a sick, sick mind you have. Boarding schools. Now that is love. Share the experience.

Tempting as it is to have children sharing and a guest room, I think I may have to do separate rooms for Liebs and Stormy. (Although Liebs has stated repeatedly he wants to share rooms when the time comes...) See, I'm not helpful too, right Nutter?

[HotI]

How did you go with boy girl sharing a room? Ds is 18months but prob be 2 when dd moves in with him and dd 6months

i have a 21 month gap, girl/boy pair. at this age, there is no issue with gender differences. i see in the future, them wanting/needing separate rooms but for now it works fine.

[Doing my best]

There is 21 months between my 2 (girl eldest), and so far there hasn't been any dramas.. I know, prob in the next few years, I am going to have to separate them, but at this age, i think it is fine.. The do most things together, are really good friends most of the time, so sleeping in the same room seemed the natural thing to do.

[MantaRay]

My boys are 19 months apart - and are now both at school. When we moved into a house with more bedrooms we offered them the choice - share a room still and have a separate playroom or separate bedrooms. They looked at us horrified - please don't make us sleep in different rooms they said. So shared room it was And they still wouldn't be apart!!

[fionas]

I have 4 bedrooms plus a study. The girls currently share a room, we have a dedicated play room and a guest room. Prior to that they had separate bedrooms and XDP had his own bedroom.

Getting the toys out of the living room into the playroom has been great. I've also put a sofa bed in there so that they can have sleepovers in there when they're older and/or I can have people over for dinner and the kids can watch a movie in the playroom so that the adults can actually have a conversation

It's also much easier getting them to sleep in the same room rather than in separate rooms. Obviously, we have nights where it all goes to pot but generally, they're pretty good.

[squeezles]

I only have one child at the moment, but I love having a play room! I would try and have them room together, but if they were keeping each other awake maybe move them?