Bedroom arrangements

[socialworkmamma]

If this is in the wrong forum, I apologize, I'm just looking for some mamma input. We are in a communal living arrangement with my elderly parents. We added on and finished the walkout basement of my family home about 10 years ago. We are now out of room in our walkout basement and are getting ready to "trade spaces" with my parents. We will be leaving around 1500 sf for around 2800 sf. The problem is the arrangement of the bedrooms. The main living space has 2 bedrooms with a bathroom in between. The upstairs has a bathroom and one large, long room that could easily be divided into two bedrooms. DH and I really don't know how we should set up our sleeping arrangements. Right now our 2 bedrooms are right next to each other. DD is 8 next week and has her own room. DS is 4 the following week and currently is in our room, we took off the closet doors on one side of the double closet and he has a daybed crib set up. We re-atttatched the doors with a brace of wood on top to give him a partial wall and his own "room". He still nurses some at night, some nights sleeps in his own bed all night. DD co-slept until really the last 2 years when one of us layed with her until she fell asleep. This October she started having us tuck her in and she would go to sleep her self. Anyway, we're thinking of making one of the downstairs bedrooms DD's, the other one a playroom and using the large upstairs bedroom for the master with DS's bed still in our area, he would just have his own closet and lots of space. I just don't know if I like being on a different floor from DD. She would likely be upstairs quite a bit at first, which would be fine. I've even thought of doing her room up with all her stuff and then getting bunkbeds for the other side of the master and having both kids just sleep upstairs.
If you made it this far thanks, I would love input!
Thanks,
Pamela

[Nolamom]

I'd try to be forward thinking and set it up how you picture it in a few years. Does your dd expect to have her own room? At 4, will your ds want his own room in a couple of years? Something to think about, anyway. We have 3 bedrooms - dd's, ds's, and mom and dad's. Ds sleeps in our room most of the time, but I expect him to move to his room in the next couple of years. Even though he rarely sleeps in his room, I like the fact that he has his own space - like everyone else in our family.

[Kyyrah]

Instead of trying to tell you what to do, let me tell you what we're doing...

Our DS is 2 and DD will be 1 shortly.

She still sleeps with us; DS has his own room. DD will have her own room in March, when we finish the basement and move our office stuff down from the third bedroom. We are probably going to be pretty fluid with sleeping arrangements. There will be two sleeping areas in each of the kid's bedrooms. One regular bed for both of them and another mattress that is more or less a daybed with pillows and stuffed animals. When and if they want to sleep in the same room, they can. When and if they want to sleep separately, they can do that as well. And we have a mattress in our room too in case either wants to crash there. But each kid has a room of their own for their own stuff and with their own decor.

Heck, my DH sleeps in different places around the house depending on his mood as well. Sometimes DS sleeps in his crib and sometimes in his big boy bed, so it's kind of whatever the mood is at the moment.