How close is your bedroom to DC's? Is it on the same level?

ppants

We're looking at building a new home.  A lot of the floor plans have the master on the main floor and the other bedrooms up/down stairs.  Right now we have a 1.5 story and all the bedrooms are upstairs.  Any problems with your current house layout?  TIA.

firefightersgal

We have a one level home.  Our bedrooms are down the hall from each other with a bathroom in between.  It works out well that they are close, but since they do not have shared walls, there is still privacy.

 Our third bedroom is at the back of the house and is quite removed from everything else.  It is our computer room for now. 

 The problems with the kid(s) bedrooms are that they are very near an exit.  Great in case of a fire, not so great when they get older and might get the urge to sneak out!  LOL. DD's room is right next to the front door and the other room is right next to the back door. 

oparcm

In my old house, we had master down, dc up so I moved my bedroom up to one of the regular bedrooms so I could be near her.  In the house I built, we are all on the same level.  I didn't like have dd on a different floor.  FWIW, my parents had master down and all of us upstairs but there were 3 of us, so we weren't there alone. 

AnnapolisLari

We have a 1959 ranch. All of the bedrooms are off one hall. Front to back = DS room, DD room, hall bath, linen closet, master bedroom with bath.

Bedrooms on different levels was a deal breaker in our house hunt.

belle204

A's room is right outside of mine & they are connected by a Jack-n-Jill bathrom. I'm not a fan of it being so close but it's a townhouse. I still prefer that it is on the same level.

peekaboo716

I would not want my kids rooms on another floor. That will be a dealbreaker for me.

DevonPow

DS's room is on the first floor and DH and I are upstairs. No problems at all in terms of being on different floors - although we need the monitor to hear him so we will use that a lot longer than others might. My only issue with our layout is that DS is too close to the living room and it makes it more difficult for us to have get togethers with a lot of people after he is in bed (due to the noise).

j-w

All of our bedrooms are right next to each other.  Bedrooms on different floors was a dealbreaker when househunting.

JOEBunny

Until DD was 3, we had our master up and the kids room down.  DD slept in the nursery off the master bedroom though, her actual room was downstairs.  We decided to turn our master into a media room (it has a sort of flexible layout that is hard to explain in a post, so this works really well), and move our bedroom downstairs.  We could have done it with DS in the nursery though, it would have been fine.  DD was OK with being downstairs by 3, and comfortable navigating the stairs on her own.  I would not build a master without a "nursery" type room off of it on the same floor.  Ours is 8X8 and has 3 windows.  We currently use it for a store room because my DH won't get rid of JUNK, but it could be a really nice office or craft room. 

cokt

We have a ranch with a finished basement. Right now we are on the main floor, so is the nursery which DS just moved out of for the new baby, and then we moved DS into what used to be the office which is also on the main floor. There is a huge bedroom in the basement, but I was not comfortable having him on a different floor of the house when he is this young. If we are in this house for a long time then I will eventually have at least one of the kids in the basement bedroom.

ShufflerChick

We have a master plus nursery on the main floor, and 3 more bedrooms upstairs that we're currently using as guest and storage space. I like that the nursery is attached to the master, with a door in between. I do NOT like that I have to go through the nursery to get to the master bath.

I initially didn't like the idea of having kids bedrooms upstairs while we're downstairs, but now I'm warming up to the idea. DD will be right overhead when she does move eventually (after 2yo), so we'll be able to hear everything anyway (darn post-war flimsy construction!). And it's great when kids are older to have that separate space. Plus, it's better to have her upstairs, away from the main living area.

I remember when I was about 12 I made my parents convert their downstairs office to a bedroom so I could be on a separate floor. So I'm not opposed to separate floors entirely.

Mrs.Saxy

we have a one story and DS and the guest room is down the hall from the master.  between the master wall and ds's room there's the guest bathroom.  the living room is right off of the two bedrooms.  I wish the bedrooms were opposite the living room.

dh's boss's house is awesome.  It's 2 story and the master and all living areas are downstairs.  Upstairs is 3 bedrooms and a bathroom.  the kids rooms are on top of the study, foyer, and dining room, so if the kids are tromping around it won't disturb the master bedroom. 

VTSKIBUM

We have a 3 bedroom. The master & 1 bedroom are upstairs and the 3rd bedroom is on the main level. DD is upstairs with us and the nursery will be on the main level. I feel this is going to be easier for us. I will be staying with the baby for a while and this way we won't disturb DD.

josie402

Our bedroom is on the main level and the other 3 are upstairs.  I like having it that way, but my only concern is DS trying the stairs at night (and DD once she's in a bed).  Right now, we have a gate at the door to DS' room.  We still use the monitor to hear him.  When DD was born, she stayed in our room for a couple months until she was sleeping better...it was just easier in the middle of the night!  I would like it more with older kids, but it works for us.

LanaM

While the kids are little I really want all of our bedrooms on the same level.

Right now we live in an old cape cod, two bedrooms upstairs and two downstairs... so the two bedrooms downstairs are used as an office/guest room and a playroom. The two bedrooms upstairs are ours and the boys. I can't imagine being on a different level... I get up too many times most nights (still).