I've asked questions on this subject before, I know. But I guess I am just looking for opinions/advice on the following...
Right, DP and I live in a two bed house rented through the council, and we have 3 children: DS1 (2), DS2 (newborn) and DSD (7). It's a biggish house to say its a 2 bed and I love it. DS1 and DSD share a bedroom at present and obviously as DS2 is a newborn he is in our room with us.
I have been doing a lot of thinking about the bedroom situation, and I am thinking of asking DP if we should give our room to DSD for when she stays with us. She stays 3/4 nights a week.
I have thought about this for the following reasons:
- DS2 will be moving in to the kids' room in about a years time so the room will be crowded.
- DSD will be nearly 9 years old so I am conscious that she will start wanting her own space and not want to share a bedroom with two little boys under 5.
- I really really really want to decorate the room as a boy's bedroom and I feel so sorry for DS1 that he doesn't have his "own room". It's a bit different if he's sharing with his brother as they are the same gender and there's not a huge age gap.
Our room will be very easy to change and make in to a girl's room but not all princesses and things like that, as even now she isn't in to all that. Also as there are some days in the week she isn't here, we will keep our bed in that room, and we will sleep in there on the nights she is at her mum's, just obviously putting her own bed sheets on on the nights she's with us. And we have a sofa bed in the living room now, which would do perfectly when she is in our room (which by then we will be calling it her room!)
This is obviously until we can afford a 3 bed house either through private rented or getting a mortgage. I am in a job that could in a few years give us that opportunity so it's not completely off the cards. But for now this is the solution I think might work.