Kid's bedroom on same floor as you

[Anonymous]

We are on different floors.
The seven year old is downstairs, as in the master bedroom. The five year old is in a bedroom upstairs. It hasn't been an issue except for the fact that it seems like such a pain to schlep his clean clothes upstairs!

[Anonymous]

The only dealbreaker for me would be if one of the bedrooms I needed for a kid was in the basement.

[Anonymous]

Kids on ground floor or in basement with adults on a different floor is a deal breaker for me at any age. It seems like a pain when they are young and would also make me (irrationally) nervous about kidnapping. And I think it’s a big gamble on how trustworthy the kids would be as teens.

I’ve seen many split levels where there are bedrooms on both the second and third floors (so parents would be a half flight above or below some or all of the kids, but no one is on ground floor) and those are okay with me.

[Anonymous]

Mbr on main floor is so common in some areas. I have three different friends who live in the suburbs of houston and all have that and love it.

I would like it now too.

As far as resale I think this is probably really regional. I have been in some houses where bedrooms are all on the main level and the kids' rooms are super far from the master bedroom. There was a time when my kids were young that that would have bothered me too.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in a house where my brother and I were on the upper floor, parents on the lower. I now live in a townhouse and absolutely insist that my kids be on a different floor. I do not need to hear voices coming down the hallway in the morning when I'm trying to squeeze in an extra 45 minutes. The house has sprinklers, carbon monoxide alarms, and other safety and security systems so I don't see what would happen that would make living on the same floor materially safer.

[Anonymous]

I remembered this story from a few years ago where a toddler died when the heater malfunctioned and the upper level overheated. https://www.womansday.com/life/a60816/danger-kids-sleeping-separate-floor/ The article recommends a temperature-monitoring baby monitor to avoid this issue if you have young children. (I probably remember it because I lived in a two story condo years ago and my heat pump malfunctioned in the middle of the night, waking me up to 95 degree temperature in my upstairs bedroom in January. The downstairs, including the downstairs bedroom, was much cooler since the condo had cathedral ceilings, so I could have slept through it if I were downstairs and had a child upstairs.)

[Anonymous]

Would be a dealbreaker for us. My kids are 3, 8 and 11 and we check on them every night. Youngest runs to our room multiple times per day.

[Anonymous]

Pp again. My boys were in and out of our bed/room at night all the way to age 7. Only when the baby was born did they stop coming into our room at night.

[Anonymous]

DD is 7. I don't think it matters unless like other pps said their bedroom was on the main floor.We have alarms on our windows and smoke alarms in her room. I'd be fine with it.

[Anonymous]

I want my kids on the same level. That said I would consider them being in the second level if I was on the first within easy distance. I would never have my kids on the first level alone, or be on a level above them.

[Anonymous]

Our 4 year old has slept in basement bedroom since she was almost 3. We’re on main floor. It’s fine for us but I realize now that it wouldn’t work well for every kid. Didn’t realize the resale implications of bedroom arrangement when purchasing our house. Would probably purchase again as it’s a good fit for us. Good luck OP!

[Anonymous]

I want my bedroom to be on the same level as kids AND be positioned between the front door and my kids’ rooms. So, I wouldn’t be comfortable with rooms on a different floor or a room where someone wouldn’t have to walk past my room to get to/from kid room. My kids are 8-14 now but this has always been the case. Need my kids close at night.

[Anonymous]

I have all my kids on my floor.

[Anonymous]

I've never lived anywhere that hasn't had all rooms on the same floor, but I've never purposely sought that out.

My friend who builds/sells houses for a living says this is a major issue. Her family lives in a house with master on first level, kids rooms upstairs, and she said they were having trouble selling because of that. But it never bothered her at all to live there, even with babies. She said it just wasn't a big deal to walk up steps to put the kids down, and she liked the separation so adults could stay up and be close to kitchen and the rest of the house at night and in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All bedrooms on the same level. All windows have alarm even on first floor.

Wasn't this girl Jonbenet ramsey killed in her home and her bedroom was on a different floor from her parents. Sorry, but cannot be a careless parent.

I mean...it's widely speculated that her parents were the ones to kill her, specifically the mother. So not sure how that influences the floor plan.

It was her brother and it was accidental. Her parents covered it up. Floor plan didn’t matter.

+1

Elizabeth Smart, on the other hand, was kidnapped while sleeping on a different level than her parents. But let's not pretend like this is a predictable consequence of a home's floor plan.