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[quote=Anonymous]I posted this is the General Parenting forum but they suggested I post it here too since my question is actually more relevant to having teens and tweens.

In your experience, how important is it for tweens and teens to have their own private space?

For background context, we bought our house with the idea that we would eventually put an addition on that would give each of our sons their own room (our daughter has always had her own).

We talked to a contractor today and I was a bit disappointed with the result and how the addition would make the house look in their drawing. We have a dutch colonial and the addition would go on one side over our first floor sunroom, removing one of the overhangs but leaving the one on the other side. I'm having problems visualizing the house this way (and what I'm visualizing isn't good) so we're going to photoshop it this weekend and maybe I'll like it more. But I'm sort of leaning towards not doing it now.

I don't want to spend a lot of money (30k) to make a nice small house look ugly, kwim?

But is that selfish to our sons?

How important is it for them to have their own rooms? I mean, obviously I know that not every kid in the world grows up with their own room. But since we can afford to do it so does that mean we should?[/quote]

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