What bedroom situation would you do? Clicky
My family and I are moving into a new house soon. The house has 4 bedrooms: 2 upstairs and 2 downstairs. There is a full bath downstairs and a half bath upstairs. All of the rooms are pretty similar in size, although the 2 upstairs are a tad bigger. Right now we live in a one-story 3 BR house and each girl has their own room. I've never lived in a 2 story house with kids before, so I'm wondering if we should keep them both downstairs or upstairs.Should we put them both in their own rooms upstairs or downstairs? Have them share a room? We'd like to make one of the 4 rooms a playroom. We were thinking of making one of the upstairs rooms ours and the other one the girls'. Then downstairs being playroom and the other a spare room/office, but that isn't totally necessary.
This shouldn't be that difficult, but I wanted to get some opinions before we decide (so we can paint and decorate!). What would you ladies do? TIA!
Re: What bedroom situation would you do? Clicky
This. Also very paranoid! Plus I think it will be easier when it's bedtime and so on.
This exactly. I live in a house that is three main floors and a basement (which is finished - we use as family room). I am totally thinking of moving DD#2 in with DD#1 on the same floor as us. I am paranoid about a fire, break-in or (God forbid) something along those lines and I am sick and tired of trekking up and down the stairs in the middle of the night for DD#2 when she's sick, teething, etc. Keep them on the same floor as you for now using one of the other rooms a play room and as they get older and would want their personal space, you can nix the playroom as they won't need it anymore and give them their own rooms.
I would probably start with the girls sharing a room on the same floor that you and DH are on. I would go into that knowing that when they got older maybe they would want to split and then you could move one into what had been the playroom.
My parents house has 4 bedrooms - 3 up and one down. I was 7 when we moved in - my younger brothers were 5 & 1. They had the boys share a room for the first year and a half while youngest brother was still in the crib and used the downstairs bedroom as a playroom. When the boys got olders and had to be seperated (they were too silly together) - I moved downstairs and the rest of the family upstairs.
The bathroom situation has me puzzled on which way you should go. If there was a full bath upstairs I would say use that for the bedrooms - that way if you were pressed for time on cleaning for company you could just ignore the whole floor. That is kind of how I looked at it when we lived in a two story.