Trish I would recommend getting 2 cots & having one in the nursery & one in your room, & putting them in together overnight. That way you've got your second one ready to go when they're ready to have their own space, & you can use the nursery during the day.

Basinettes are lovely, especially if you have a family heirloom, but of course they'd need one each.

I use normal cot sheets. I find when they're little I never use the top sheet because we swaddle them. I put a towel over the waterproof side of the mattress to make it easy to wash & more comfortable, then a fitted cot sheet, then a thick cotton bunny rug, then a cloth nappy folded in half for under their head, then firmly wrapped baby, & if cold celular blanket over that. My babies chuck up a lot, so in one day we'll change the cloth nappies a few times & the bunny rug, & hopefully get more than one day out of the sheet, lol.

Now that we've stopped swaddling them (can't remember when that was :-k ) they have nothing over them if it's very hot, or just a flat cot sheet, or just the celular blanket. I only use the flat sheet in Angus' cot if he's not having any blanket on him because it's hot. If I try making up the bed with a sheet, he just trashes it & it gets tangled up.

We've been given sleeping bags for the twins which I'm looking forward to using next winter. I've never tried them before, and I was always up & down to tuck Angus in last winter so he wouldn't get cold.