Curious about bedroom sharing boy/girl

duffmaker

Hi ladies! I was laying in bed last night thinking about our new apartment (we'll be moving May 1st), and realized that it's only 2 bedrooms and ideally we'd like to have another LO by the time DD is 2. It's a pretty high possibility that we will still be in our 2 bedroom apartment.... How do you make a boy/girl room work? It isn't weird right because they're still young enough for it not to be? They would be close enough in age to be able to share fine right?

I'm just curious, thanks!

mamabirdof4

Our older kiddos are boy/girl and 13 months 1 day apart and they share a room....we actual have a 4 bedroom house so we have plenty of room we just chose to have them together.  They can have their own rooms when they ask.

celiabwatson

Our boy and girl share just fine. We're not big decorators so when we moved into the house we painted the bedroom a nice calm green with grey trim. We also have a guest room and the master so theoretically down the road they don't have to share, but we want to keep them together as long as possible because all our family live far away and we want to keep the guest room available. 

My general rule is probably going to be that when they're old enough that they aren't bathing together (either by their choice or mine) then they're old enough to need their own room. Or we may have more kids by then and separate by gender then. 

SweetBaby2004

We have a 4 bedroom house and currently have our two oldest (DD#1 and DS) share even though we don't need to.  Our one bedroom is downstairs and the rest are upstairs so we don't use it for sleeping right  now.

They have been sharing since they were 4 1/2 and 3 and they are now 7 1/2 and almost 6.   It has worked out great!  ItWe will be separating them in the next six months but DS will probably move in with DD#2 (who is 2) then and DD#1 will share with DD#3. 

In the next year or so, we will move DD#1 downstairs, give DS his own room, and have DDs#2 and #3 share.  Or we will move (if we are still not comfortable having one of the kids on a different level of the house from us).

wendyll64

 My cousin's children are 17 months apart and they share a room.  It's cute- each wall is pink and blue.  Her biggest issue? getting them to calm down and want to sleep. They love sharing a room.