So, we have a 4 bedroom house. At the moment, one bedroom is DH and mine, one is DS1's, one is DS2's and one is a study/office.

The house isn't particularly big - as in, they are perfectly adequate but not spacious rooms.

Master bedroom is staying as is.

Study is staying as is (it has desk, filing cabinets, exercise bike, cross trainer, etc).

The lounge/dining room doesn't work as a play room.

There is a back room which we kind of use as a play room ... it has bookshelves, a dining table made up as a change table, storage table, hallstand, etc. We also generally have airers out there drying MCNs, and then it has a billion toys and books which magically climb out of their homes and go all over the floor every time you leave the room.

So decisions: DS2 is about to go into a big boy bed, and we're deciding whether to put the boys into a shared room and turn the other into a play room.

One of the bedrooms is considerably (maybe 40-50%) bigger than the other one. At the moment, it has an identical chest of drawers, identical built in robe, comparable bookshelf, but has a cot and a nursing chair as opposed to a single bed. We could easily fit two beds in there, and have a little play room (and later a study nook for the boys when they're at school) or a bunk bed into the small bedroom, and have a reasonable sized play room.

Part of this is because I like the thought of having a dedicated play room, and part is because it really bothers me that the boys' rooms are such different sizes. Now that DS2 isn't feeding, it feels like favouritism (even though I know it's not, and that the boys are *way* to young to notice and be jealous about such a thing).

But then I think that it would be good to have the exercise bike in the back room instead of tucked away somewhere meaning we hardly use it, and I actually would want the boys' computer (when they're big enough to need and have one) in the back room, not tucked away somewhere behind closed doors, and so we want their toys and stuff elsewhere, and not in their rooms for sleeping.

And then I go back to thinking that we're just being really silly, and it's way too early as they as itty bitty boys still, and school is 2-3 years away!

What do others have and do?

What works well about it? What doesn't?

The boys are 20 months apart in age, and the study wouldn't work as a bedroom - it's a similar size to DS1's room, but has no built in robe. A cupboard would fit, but would considerably reduce the usable space, and we'd have a similar issue again.