Anyone with unusual bedroom arrangements? - Page 2

[Smokering]

We have three bedrooms - one's DH WAH office, one is our bedroom (me, DD and DH), and one is for our flatmate. It's different from our last house, where we had heaps of spare rooms - I had a sewing room, DD had a bedroom she never used - but I vastly prefer this house. It's open-plan, not poky and the bedrooms are a good size (well, not DH's office).

It will become a problem soon though. We want to TTC next year and I don't want to cosleep with a baby and a toddler - we wouldn't fit, for one thing! I'm not sure we could fit asingle or even a toddler bed in our current bedroom. I've considered putting a toddler bed in DH's office, not as DD's room as far as clothes and toys go, just somewhere for her to sleep - but I'm not sure DD will be ready for that by next year and I don't think DH wants his office taken over! The other option is to kick out the flatmate, but that would give us less money and give DD a ridiculously large room - for which, again, she might not be ready.

I don't want to move again; I love this house; but it's a looming problem. *Maybe* DH could move his office (just a desk, chair and computer, really) into the lounge or our bedroom?

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My house was originally a three bedroom + den/office that could be used as a small bedroom house - the three actual bedrooms were the master and two small rooms. At some point, two additional bedrooms were added at the back of the house - but to get to them, you have to walk through one of the two small bedrooms. The people who lived here before us used the walk through room as an excercise room. We use it as a toy depository (was supposed to be a playroom, but no one ever actually plays there ). My oldest is in one of the new bedrooms, and my daughter and younger son are in the other. The part of our arrangement that most people find weird is that dh and I have separate rooms. I sleep in the master, and he sleeps in the last small bedroom. This works best for us for lots of reasons, but mostly because dh is a violent, loud sleeper (by violent, I mean snoring loudly, tossing, turning, yelling in his sleep - not that he punches me or anything ) and I sleep much better in a different room.

[Paxjourney]

We have a pretty "normal" set up. Each girl has her own room and DH and I share a room.

My SIL is a single mother and she has a 2 bedroom apt. Her two older girls have the "master" bedroom and then she has the smaller bedroom that she shares with her baby.

Whatever works for you is whats right.

[BCFD]

We don't have the "typical" set up. Our house is a 4BR (one is the office at the front of the house that has double doors and really would make an AWFUL bedroom!). We all co-sleep in the very, tiny (and I mean like 12x13!) master bedroom. We have a CalKing turned sideways and a twin bed so it looks like one huuuuge bed. Me, my wife, and our 3 kids (ages 5, 4, and 3) all sleep in there. We only have room for a small bookshelf, hamper, and an Ikea dresser that holds our 47" flat screen.

We are currently using our "formal" living room as a toy room with a small TV for the kids. They like to play in that room and it's perfect for when we have guests with kids over. That way the Polly Pockets and Littlest Pet Shops (that live in the bedrooms) aren't being carried from room to room. Our family room has a hand me down TV that has never been turned on. We spend most of our time past 8 or 9 pm in the bedroom watching TV together.

The other two "bedrooms" are set up as bedrooms with their beds and, I kinda chuckle when I think about it - makes us look pretty typical. Most of their toys are in those "bedrooms" and they do occasionally take naps in there. I guess to the innocent by-looker they would think we were pretty normal. However, when they spot the "biggest bed in the world" I always tell them proudly that we still co-sleep!