Anyone here have 2 toddlers sharing a room?

[wdw1991]

We have one DD who is 21 months and are thinking about when we want to have another. We only have 2 bedrooms not box rooms but not huge and are wondering how we could make it work...our room is bigger so we thought about switching but our king size bed would just about fit in DDs room 😕 any ideas I’d love to hear 😊

[Floridatilly]

My sister and I shared a room, it actually made us very close.
My friend has two children, 2 years apart, boy & girl. They shared a room for a good few years. It was fantastic how she did it, half boys style & half girls. Now they are older, high school, they had a little wall built and an extra window fitted in what was the master room. My friend & her husband are now in the smaller room and they use the airing cupboard in the landing as their wardrobe so only have a chest of draws in their bedroom.
Her house is gorgeous and she never wants to leave so it was a really good compromise.

[Floridatilly]

Originally Posted by Floridatilly

My sister and I shared a room, it actually made us very close.
My friend has two children, 2 years apart, boy & girl. They shared a room for a good few years. It was fantastic how she did it, half boys style & half girls. Now they are older, high school, they had a little wall built and an extra window fitted in what was the master room. My friend & her husband are now in the smaller room and they use the airing cupboard in the landing as their wardrobe so only have a chest of draws in their bedroom.
Her house is gorgeous and she never wants to leave so it was a really good compromise.

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Just to add, my next door neighbour have two girls and a three bedroom house. The girls have always shared a bedroom and the smallest bedroom was a playroom type room and now the girls are older it’s their dressing room. Even now they are teenagers they still want to share.

[vampiress88]

We had the same as you. Two bedrooms but the smallest was bigger than a box room.

We had two toddler beds in it when they were 3&4.

We have moved house now so have their own rooms but if we hadn’t we would have stayed with the toddler beds then moved onto bunk beds.

They still like to sleep in each other’s rooms now but they are giddy when they do so whereas before it was the norm so used to just go to bed together and were really good about it.

[Love*my*hols]

We made our dining room into our bedroom so the children had their own room .It worked well for us .

[Pumpkin Pie]

Our two sons shared a room for most of their childhood even though they could have had a room each. They liked sharing until they got to around 12/13.

[Taffy1959]

We had 3 boys in one room which wasn’t great as there was 5 years between DS1and DS2.
We thought about moving to a 4 bedroom house as we also have a daughter but then decided to have the attic converted to a 4th bedroom which the youngest 2 had.
They shared until DD moved out when the youngest was 14.

[Dazed]

My 5 big kids all have their own rooms now, but when they were small we had a 3 bedroom house. The 2 toddlers (1yr apart) had 1 room with their cots either side, then toddler beds either side of the room. My older 3 had a triple bunk in their room (double at bottom, single top, then single bed size trundle underneath that they could pull out.

You will make it work. If the room is big enough you can have both cots/cot and bed in there with pullout drawers underneath for storage and/or clothes. You can keep their clothes in your room if short on space/storage.

The way I saw it was that bedrooms were just for sleeping when they are small and there was plenty of room downstairs for us all. As they got older it wasn’t as easy but we then moved to a bigger house. My younger 2 still shared for years out of choice. We had a double bed and single in their room and the one that didn’t sleep well used to get out of his bed in the night and jump in with his brother. He liked the comfort of being with him. They didn’t separate into their own rooms until 10/11yrs old.

[DisneySarah]

I think it would be fine - your DD will be at least 2.5, perhaps 3 when her sibling is born? And then they would presumably sleep in your room for the first bit? My two (now 2 and 5) have the same age gap, and while they don’t share a room, I think it would be absolutely fine if they did!

[ERICSMUM]

My 2 great nephews are 3 and 6 so a bit older. When they were toddlers they had a cot and a small bed in one room and now they have bunk beds. Their mum often finds them in the same bed in the morning.

Their clothes are tiny so they fit in a tall chest of drawers. Toys in boxes under the bottom bunk.