Childrens Bedrooms

tori.k

I would put them together if baby N2 is a boy, i so wish that i did that with mine when they were younger, im suffering for it now... mine always had their own bedrooms up untill last year (14 &12) and now that they have to share space spend half there lives moaning over petty stuff. one even moans his brother make to much noise breathing at night. i think if i had put them together and had a playroom as small boys they would tolerate each other better now.

Curious_George_2

dizziblonde wrote: »

As a little girl my idea of hell would have been a pink room - I had an obsessional hatred of the colour (I wear it now but only the very bright shades) - do rooms have to be as simple as pink/blue? If I ever have a little girl I'll be the one going nuts trying to find non-pink clothes for her!

i could have written that, i also had a blanket ban on anything barbie...
trust me... no matter what plans like that you make....YOU lose! it is totally unavoidable and once your kid starts picking stuff for themselves ... well....
my daughter is nearly 10 and is still the pinkest girl ive ever met

Im another vote for doing the babies bedroom a nuetral colour and using the appropriate gender stickarounds / accessories,
we did our sons room yellow with farmyard stickers / border etc and its already been changed... what you might want for a newborn and what seems right for a two year old can be very different things,

its not an unwritten rule that the older child has to have the bigger room, but... they will have more clothes, more toys, more books and the ability to make a lot more mess,
my DS (2) has a lot of stuff and i wish he had a bigger room than the box room, but my DD has SO much stuff it would be impossible... plus he doesnt play upstairs alone but she does (sorry.. its not "play" its practising dance routines with those elephants)

mumslave

Totally disagree with your OH. A baby arriving in the family is the second most stressful thing to happen to a young child. Never mind a new baby coming and stealing all the thunder...but also pinching his room. Thats just asking for trouble. We had a similar set up to you, had two doubles and a box type room. The box type was perfect for our little man when he arrived october 08. Babies are small, they dont need lots of room. A toddler...the more room the better.

Money_maker

tori.k wrote: »

I would put them together if baby N2 is a boy, i so wish that i did that with mine when they were younger, im suffering for it now... mine always had their own bedrooms up untill last year (14 &12) and now that they have to share space spend half there lives moaning over petty stuff. one even moans his brother make to much noise breathing at night. i think if i had put them together and had a playroom as small boys they would tolerate each other better now.

Mine have always been together - even wanted to be in a tiny bedroom in a caravan on holiday. Fast forward to 3 bed house, still fine to be together until they got to about 11. Now I get the moans etc (one is obsessively tidy, the other a slob!).

Too late anyhow as DD is in bedroom 3 now

fernliebee

I agree with the majority of other posters, I would leave him in the room he is in and decorate the box room if you feel you need to (it won't take long, when we decorated DD's room which is fairly big only took us 3 hours to paint it, then it's just a case of leaving it to dry.)

We didn't know whether we were having a boy or a girl with DD, and I wasn't going to decorate until after baby arrived so we could go with a theme (not pink even for a girl though ) however my nesting instinct kicked in at 39 weeks and I insisted we go and buy paint and decorate. I painted 3 walls buttermilky/yellow colour, and one wall midnight blue. I then stencilled stars on the blue wall in the yellow colour. I managed to get some thick velvet curtains second hand that were midnight blue, and my mum and I sewed yellow stars all over them- they looked beautiful. I then bought the buzz Aldrin, moon lampshade from habitat to finish it off. It is completely unisex, my DD loves the stars and moon, and now we have a second baby on the way who will have to share with DD it doesn't matter if they are a boy or a girl. (not that babies or young children care about what colour their walls are, it's just us adults that seem to get caught up in it.)

Just an idea, but if the room is pale blue, rather than decorate it if it's a girl, could you not just find some girly curtains and other bit's that feature blue in them. Or just go for pink everything else, as pastels go together.

Oldernotwiser

butterflylady wrote: »

In my head again its probably me being an only child I wouldn't want DS and the new baby to share if it was a girl, I'm in the lucky position of having the 3rd bedroom so would want to use it.

Why on earth would you be worried about a 2 year old boy sharing a bedroom with a baby girl?

JBD

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Why on earth would you be worried about a 2 year old boy sharing a bedroom with a baby girl?

TBH that's exactly what I thought when I read this! I really find it strange, this belief nowadays that all children must have their own bedrooms. You hear it all the time on property programmes, as if it's mental cruelty to make 2 children share the same room, let alone boy and girl. I'm sure some people must get into massive debt because of this when it could be easily avoided[not saying the OP comes into this category].

meandmaboy

JBD wrote: »

TBH that's exactly what I thought when I read this! I really find it strange, this belief nowadays that all children must have their own bedrooms. You hear it all the time on property programmes, as if it's mental cruelty to make 2 children share the same room, let alone boy and girl. I'm sure some people must get into massive debt because of this when it could be easily avoided[not saying the OP comes into this category].

Hi,
I'm the eldest of 7 (6 girls & 1 boy ) & my parents had a 5apt house, which only had 4 bedrooms, we always shared & as there was always a baby my mothers bedroom always had a cot in it, how times have changed for all of us.:)
I'm on my own with a teenage boy in a 2 bedroom semi & its bursting @ the seams as he thinks the house is too small, my sister is always reminding him of all of us all squashed up into 3 bedrooms.
My next sister & I didn't get on & still don't she covered her 1/2 of the room in the BAY CITY ROLLERS & I was a big DONNY OSMOND FAN. Anybody of a similiar age group will understand the clashing of that culture.:(:(:(
I think we live our lives very differently now.

JBD

meandmaboy wrote: »

Hi,
I'm the eldest of 7 (6 girls & 1 boy ) & my parents had a 5apt house, which only had 4 bedrooms, we always shared & as there was always a baby my mothers bedroom always had a cot in it, how times have changed for all of us.:)
I'm on my own with a teenage boy in a 2 bedroom semi & its bursting @ the seams as he thinks the house is too small, my sister is always reminding him of all of us all squashed up into 3 bedrooms.
My next sister & I didn't get on & still don't she covered her 1/2 of the room in the BAY CITY ROLLERS & I was a big DONNY OSMOND FAN. Anybody of a similiar age group will understand the clashing of that culture.:(:(:(
I think we live our lives very differently now.

I think we are of the same age group. I had to share with my 2 sisters, I never had a room of my own till I 1st left home at 18. There was no point complaining either. My 2 brothers had bunk beds in the box room until they were virtually adults.My 2 sons still share a room and if they don't like it it's tough. Actually they don't complain or fight too much, they just do it downstairs instead.

onlyroz

For now, at least, the eldest shoud have the bigger room - because all that space is meaningless to a baby, but a child has toys and will want space to play. But if you do move your son, it should be done now rather than after the baby is born.

We moved our son to the bigger room while I was pregnant with his sister - so that we could decorate the smaller room for the baby (he'd been in the smaller room up until then because it was closer to our bedroom). He was fine with the move and liked moving into the "big boy's bed".