room configurations

just wanted to get some thoughts/ideas. i have two bedrooms for the kids and i wanted to get some opinions on how to configure them once the baby leaves our room.

Option A (lol)
- twin boys in one room
- baby girl in her own room
- toys wherever in their rooms where they will fit.

Option B
- all kids in one room
- spare room becomes playroom

any advice? thanks! :grouphug:

 

Ooh, I'll be watching this thread. I have a 4 month old baby girl and soon to be 3 year old twin boys.

 

I like option B. At least for starters, if it doesn't work, then you can split them up. But it makes more sense, to me at least, to have one room for sleeping and one room for playing.

 

We have four bedrooms, so we are able to split them. My boys are 4.5 and share their room. Annabella, Queen Bee, has her own room. They are both upstairs. Downstairs on the first floor, we have our bedroom, and a smaller room that was an office, that turned into a playroom when the kids came along. :laughing:

 

Depends on how big the rooms are. If you have room for two twin beds and a crib (and eventually a third twin bed) in one room, then yeah, keep them together and use the extra room for a playroom.

If the room is going to be cramped with 3 kids in it, keep the twins together, with their toys in their room, and the baby in the other room with any baby safe toys in there.

We have 4 kids, 3 bedroom house. My older 2 share a room, with their stuff in there, the twins share a room with part of their toys in there. Our living room is our playroom with the train table, bean bags and bigger toys in it. Someday I'd love a playroom, but not anytime soon

 

For us, we've always avoided having toys in their bedroom (other than books & loveys). It just never seemed like an idea conducive to sleep to me. :laughing: We also moved our twins to toddler beds at 18 months so needed an emptier room for safety as well as sleep. Once our little guy is sleeping thru on a relatively regular basis, he'll be moving into the same room as his sisters. All their toys are downstairs in our basement/tv room. It's working well for us right now. I like having the toys out of the main living area of the house so if it is a complete disaster, I don't have to look at it/step over it all day long.

 

You all are tempting me to move my baby in with the boys. Do you worry that your toddlers will 'mess' with the baby? Mine adore her, but maybe too much. :lol:

 

I guess it depends on how your kids play and how much you trust them to have toys in their room. And also, how they behave with their younger sibling. I would do separate bedrooms and include some of their own toys in their own room. But my kids have been good about playing in their room during play time, and leaving it alone at bedtime. (we've had our share of sleep issues, but none were related to playing when they're supposed to be sleeping). But my kids have separate rooms and I like that they have their own space for their own toys and a place to split them up for quiet time if needed. Most of their gender-neutral toys are in the play room in the basement. I may change my opinion though, if the bedroom was my only option for a place to play.

 

For me I think it would depend most on sleep patterns, I wouldn't put all three in together unless I was confident that they wouldn't be waking each other up much. If your baby is generally sleeping through the night and they all wake up around the same time in the morning then it would probably work fine. The next thing I would consider is, as pp's have said, can you trust your boys unsupervised with their sister and the amount of space in the rooms.

Having a playroom is nice so if it will work having them all in one room I'd go with that, but obviously good sleep is more important. You could always give the one room thing a try and if it causes too many disturbed nights then switch to separate rooms.

 

IMO boys in one room, girl in another. It will be easier because they won't have the same sleep patterns for a while, and you'll have to do that eventually anyway (you won't really want 8yo boys in the same room as a 5yo girl for example). I'd just split the toys, with the sex and age difference I don't think they'll play with the same stuff anyway.

ETA: we don't have toys in room here. Our living room is a huge mess but I don't want them to play in their room at night... we'll see in a year or two, lol.

 

Just wanted to add, my 10 yr old boy and almost 6 yr old girl share a room You gotta do what you gotta do. My older kids go to school in the morning, up at 7am. I see no reason to wake my 3yr old twins up at 7am too. Once the twins go to school we'll split the kids up 2 boys/2 girls, but for now, this works. My kids still shower together, it's not a huge deal

 

I'm with Danielle on this one. I shared a room with my two younger sisters & younger brother until I was 12. I have some great memories of that. :good:

 

I would do all kids in one room and the other room to be used as a toyroom

 

I was 10, 1 younger sis, 1 younger bro, and when younger sis #2 came along my parents finally built a bigger house! :lol: The kids had the master bedroom, and my parents had the smaller room. When my sis's bassinet had to sit in the closet my mom knew it was time to upgrade However I have no bad memories of that and since my bro is happily married with an almost 1 yr old boy, I don't think we scarred him :laughing:

I still shared a bedroom with my younger sis, and my bro and other sis shared a room for several more years until my parents finished the basement up.

 

the two rooms are small but one is able to hold 2 cribs and a dresser with no real extra space. that was the room i was going to move the baby into and keep their bigger room as their playroom. however -
the boys are currently sleeping in cribs that turned into daybeds (if that makes sense).
they are definitely going to need an upgrade sooner rather than later, lol. i am not sure if twin beds, a dresser and a crib can fit in the tinier room. thats why i wasn't sure if it was worth it to cram them into the larger room that is currently the playroom and then turn the smaller room into the playroom.

LOL - crazy i know.

 

I have another on the way and have been wondering what to do myself. We have a 3 bedroom house and the twins share a room, the other room is their playroom. However once the baby is here I don't really want him/her disrupted. My girls tend to stay up in their room for HOURS after being put to bed, sometimes they don't fall asleep til midnight! I can't imagine a baby trying to sleep amidst all of that. So I think we are going to do separate rooms.