Split bedrooms / home floor plan

wedbliss5 · August 2013

How are your bedrooms arranged and how will this impact your plans for where LO is going to sleep? If you already have children, does this impact your current situation?

HeartOverMind · August 2013

Right now, we are living in a two-bedroom apartment (not ideal), we have plans to move as soon as possible. We have plenty of room for LO, and she will sleep in our bedroom for the first couple of months. Then, we will move her to her own space when we get the hang of things.

SweetPeaKate · August 2013

Our master bedroom is upstairs, and the other bedrooms are on the first floor. DS has slept in his room downstairs since he was 6 months old. We are switching him to the other bedroom on the first floor to make room for this LO's arrival. Everyone thought it would be weird, and to be honest I only worry now thinking that sooner or later DS is going to be able to open his door when he wakes up and gets out of bed.

wedbliss5 · August 2013

Like I put in the co-sleeping post, our master bedroom is down stairs while all the other bedrooms are upstairs. After having DD1 sleep with us for the past 2 years, it makes me extremely nervous to put her in her own room upstairs since she's not old enough to safely get out if there was ever a fire. Now with DD2 on the way, its going to be an ever bigger issue and yet I'm still not sure how to deal with it. And to add, I know neither DH nor I are going to want to stroll across the house, up the stairs, then back across the house every night to deal with middle of the night feedings and diaper changes. And I don't want to spend the next 2 years with DH and I sleeping in the office or media room instead of our bedroom.

Any suggestions? Stupid split bedroom floor plan. humpfh.

Jmattis · August 2013

We have a one bedroom apartment, and LO will be sleeping in the PNP with us for 4 months until we move and he can have his own room.

moosebaby2011 · August 2013

Our bedrooms are all upstairs. Master bedroom/bath and a larger bedroom to the left of the stairs, bathroom in the middle, and then 2 smaller bedrooms to the right of the stairs. Currently DS uses one of the smaller bedrooms, and I plan to put the new LO in the other of the smaller bedrooms. The larger bedroom is noticeably bigger than the other 2 rooms, so I don't think it's fair for one kid to have a huge room and the other to have a small room. We're going to keep that one as a guest bedroom/study.

mrsjenni · August 2013

Our house is a split-level type house, except it has 4 levels, all separated by about 5-6 steps. Hard to explain, but you walk in to the "second" level where we have the living room, dinning room and kitchen. Downstairs on the first level is the family room, bathroom and laundry room. Then from the living room, you go up 5-6 steps to 2 bedrooms and another bathroom (this is where my kids sleep!) and then you go up another 5-6 steps and the master bedroom is at the top. So, while we're on different levels, I wouldn't say we were really on different floors, if that makes sense.

Our house is up for sale now, but we plan to take it off the market in October/November to prepare for the baby (we put it up before we knew we were expecting... surprise!) and we'll redo the kids bedrooms. The boys will share and DD will keep her room, unless this baby is a girl

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vstevens · August 2013

We have a 2BR condo (which is big by NYC standards) so no plans to move. The bedrooms are separated by the living/dining area, so I still use a video monitor with DS to hear him during the night.

This LO will be in the room with us for the first 3-4 months. After that, the kids will share the second bedroom. Knock on wood this LO is a good sleeper like his brother!

sugarland726 · August 2013

3 bedroom house with nursery directly across the hall from master. Guest bedroom is down the hall (closer to living room/rest of the house). DD is still in the nursery but she will move to guest bedroom. Baby will take the nursery.

LexGator · August 2013

We have twin masters, one up, one down. We sleep upstairs and made the downstairs master a playroom. When we were looking for a house, I was adamant that the master be on the same floor as the other bedrooms. I know first floor master is appealing to some, but not when you have little kids.

KimberlyTX · August 2013

Our bedrooms are all upstairs, with the master on one side of the house and the other two rooms on the other side (separated by our den). DD slept in our room in a RnP until she was 4 months old and sleeping 4-6 hour stretches at night because I didn't want to trek across the house every time she needed feeding. We'll be doing the same with this LO, although I might use a PnP this time so I can just change him/her in our room (with DD, I'd take her to her room when she needed changed).

PBP2002 · August 2013

We have a ranch, but with split bedrooms (the master being on the opposite side of the house as the kids rooms). Right now, it's not a big deal since DS sleeps through the night 99.9% of the time. I don't think it will be awful nor awesome to have to walk across the house to deal with things in the middle of the night, but I figure in the grand scheme of things, that phase is much shorter than having older kids that don't need me right next to them.

wedbliss5 · August 2013

wilburbud said:

I would HATE to have my bedroom on a seperate floor from my children. Hate it. From a safety standpoint, it is scary to me. If there was a home instrusion, or a fire, the thought of not being on the same floor with them is terrifying to me.

As for bedrooms, my oldest has her own bedroom. these two youngest will share a bedroom.

Yup, which is why I am constantly kickin myself for not thinking about this when we bought the house, even if we got an awesome deal on it. So there ya go, thats why we bed-share with our almost 5 year old. (But the cuddles are still fabulous, so at least there is that!)

2BWEDN2007 · August 2013

We live in a 3 bed, 2 bath Gambrel so most floor plans are identical. There is a living room, dining room, kitchen and bath on the 1st floor and 3 bedrooms and a bath upstairs.

When we were looking at houses (before kids) we looked at houses in a development near us that were all built by the same builder and were split level. The bottom level had a family room and bed/bath combo and the upstairs had living/dining/kitchen and 2 beds. We never even made an offer on those houses even though they were newer and in a better development because of the fact that one bedroom was on a different level. I wouldn't mind so much if we bought one with teenagers, but I would never sleep on a separate level than my babies/toddlers/young children for safety reasons.

MrsGraham06 · August 2013

We have 3 bedrooms upstairs. DH plans to turn the attic into the boys' room, but we're a LOOOONNGG way from that! DD's room is also partly the "nursery", since there is a connecting door. But, we might have the crib in our room to start, we haven't really gotten that far into planning.

purplepenguin2011 · August 2013

We have two bedrooms upstairs and one down. Right now DD is in the room next door to us, and she's going to have to share a room with the baby for awhile. i just can't put her in the basement at 2. she's too little!

Armyratt · August 2013

We have a three bedroom and all rooms are upstairs. Baby will be in our room and our two older have their own room.

Jen4033 · August 2013

We recently built & moved into our new home this year & I insisted on 3 br on one level. We weren't PG yet nor planning to be when we started construction, but I knew it would come up soon. I couldn't stand the thought of sending my 2 yr old to a basement bedroom away from me.

fredtheredhead2 · August 2013

All of our bedrooms are upstairs and fairly close. LO will sleep in a bassinet in our room for the first 2-3 months and then go to her crib. We will put her down for naps in her crib as often as possible so she gets used to it.

brideandbreve · August 2013

Our house has 4 bedrooms upstairs - our master bedroom all the way on the left-hand side, with DS' room to the right of it, then a full-sized bathroom, then DD's room to the right of that, and then the 4th bedroom which is being utilized as a guest bedroom.

LimeDrops · August 2013

We are all grouped together on one floor. If any kid were under age 5 or so, and we were separated, I would combine whoever I had to to get us all together in some way. After that I might be ok with a master being separated... But I would hate to separate one of the kids, it just wouldn't seem fair.

Jackapatamus · August 2013

We live in a cape cod- with 2 bedrooms down and 2 up. Currently, we are all downstairs. When lo arrives, my DS will be moving into a bedroom upstairs, and lo will take the nursery. But I completely agree with @wilburbud, he can't be up there by himself, so my DH will be sleeping upstairs too! (Secretly, we all are excited about this, because DH and I hate sleeping together!! ).

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