Bedroom configuration

[Anonymous]

Move into the room with wife or basement

[Anonymous]

We have a very very similar situation. Kids are all 1 year older (DD8, DD6 and DS3).
We kept DD on top bunk for now and 6 year old on lower one. Guest room is empty with desk for work (DH). I work in our room on a small desk.

My eldest asked for her own room, but she is also a little scared to be in her own (for now) so it works…
Good luck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 yr old and 5 yr old share. Oldest gets smallest BR by herself.

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Anonymous wrote:2 yr old and 5 yr old share. Oldest gets smallest BR by herself.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 yr old and 5 yr old share. Oldest gets smallest BR by herself.

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Op here - I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe that is an option. But 2 year old is still comfortable in a crib and I want to keep him in there for as long as possible. Oldest dd was in crib till she was 4!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Help me figure this out! 4 bedroom house and 3 kids. Both parents work from home partially (DW 4 days a week and DH 3 days a week, most weekends and a lot of evenings).

Oldest DD1 (7 years old) wants her own room. Right now she is sharing a room with DD2 (5 years old) and on the top bunk. DS (2 years old) is in a small room by himself and still in a crib. Oldest DD is on the top bunk of shared room and has been starting to complain and cry that she doesn’t like being on the top bunk. Room might fit two beds on the ground but it will be super tight.

4th bedroom is used as an office for DW and a guest room.

Do I try and put the top bunk on the ground and keep the girls together? Or give all the kids their own room and move my office to the unfinished basement? I am at a loss.

5yo and 7yo can have a month of rotating who is in which bed. At the end of the month, there are several options:

1. 5yo and 7yo continue to share the room and: (this is preferred, as there's no room changes)
a. rotate the top bunk
b. 7yo decides she prefers the top bunk
c. 5yo likes the top bunk

2. 7yo gets the smallest room, parents have the largest as bedroom and office, second largest is for 2yo and 5yo, third largest is guest bedroom and office.

3. All kids and toys move into the largest bedroom, smallest bedroom becomes an office, second largest room is parent's bedroom and office, third largest is guest bedroom. (If a room change is required, this would be my choice. Kids can figure things out as the girls get older, including hanging sheets as curtains for privacy. It also encourages the kids to figure things out among themselves.)

There are other options, but without dimensions of rooms and furniture? Those are my suggestions.

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Anonymous wrote:Help me figure this out! 4 bedroom house and 3 kids. Both parents work from home partially (DW 4 days a week and DH 3 days a week, most weekends and a lot of evenings).

Oldest DD1 (7 years old) wants her own room. Right now she is sharing a room with DD2 (5 years old) and on the top bunk. DS (2 years old) is in a small room by himself and still in a crib. Oldest DD is on the top bunk of shared room and has been starting to complain and cry that she doesn’t like being on the top bunk. Room might fit two beds on the ground but it will be super tight.

4th bedroom is used as an office for DW and a guest room.

Do I try and put the top bunk on the ground and keep the girls together? Or give all the kids their own room and move my office to the unfinished basement? I am at a loss.

5yo and 7yo can have a month of rotating who is in which bed. At the end of the month, there are several options:

1. 5yo and 7yo continue to share the room and: (this is preferred, as there's no room changes)
a. rotate the top bunk
b. 7yo decides she prefers the top bunk
c. 5yo likes the top bunk

2. 7yo gets the smallest room, parents have the largest as bedroom and office, second largest is for 2yo and 5yo, third largest is guest bedroom and office.

3. All kids and toys move into the largest bedroom, smallest bedroom becomes an office, second largest room is parent's bedroom and office, third largest is guest bedroom. (If a room change is required, this would be my choice. Kids can figure things out as the girls get older, including hanging sheets as curtains for privacy. It also encourages the kids to figure things out among themselves.)

There are other options, but without dimensions of rooms and furniture? Those are my suggestions.

Just saw that the 5yo refuses to go on the top bunk. No way would both girls get to throw fits about this in my home, and a 5yo should be capable of climbing a ladder safely. They can figure it out for a month, whether that means asking me to move the top mattress to the floor and rotating, rotating who is on the top bunk, or choosing to share the bottom bunk. After a month, they can talk to me again and let me know *together* what they want to do about sharing a room, but the preference is for them to share, either just the two of them, or all three kids in the largest room.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2 yr old and 5 yr old share. Oldest gets smallest BR by herself.

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Op here - I hadn’t thought of that. Maybe that is an option. But 2 year old is still comfortable in a crib and I want to keep him in there for as long as possible. Oldest dd was in crib till she was 4!

Will the crib and a bed not fit in the same room?

[Anonymous]

we have this bed that 5 and 7 year could use???

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/slaekt-bed-frame-w-pull-out-bed-storage-white-s19239450/

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Anonymous wrote:Finish the basement. I’d make the girls keep sharing a room. They can trundle bed.

???
So finish the basement and OP gets her office downstairs? And the other bedroom stays just a guestroom? And keep making the two kids share a room?

Why? Seems unnecessarily cruel to make the kids share a room if you have the extra bedroom (which they would if they finish the basement to use as an office like you suggest.)

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Anonymous wrote:2 yr old and 5 yr old share. Oldest gets smallest BR by herself.

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[Anonymous]

I would give up the guest room and office. Can't you set up a desk in your own bedroom? And you dd will move to siblings rooms to share when guests come and they'd stay in her room.

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Anonymous wrote:Give up the guest room/office. DH works from our bedroom with a standing desk and I work from this strange alcove off the living room. We have a nanny, a toddler, and a preschooler home (aside from school) all day and it still works.

This - we have three kids and 4 bedrooms. DH works from home 2 days a week and is finishing his dissertation. His "office" is the laundry room / mud room / entrance alcove. My "office" is the dining room table. If the weather sucks and all kids are inside, I have a desk in our bedroom (also use that when I need to make private calls). We make it work. Each kid having a space and having a place to get away from the others has made pandemic life MUCH more tolerable for all.