how big is your house & how many live there?

reddevilled

We have a 3 bed and at the moment it's me, my wife and a 9 month old. We certainly want another child and maybe a bigger house but at the moment that is more than fine for the 3 of us.

Threebabes

We have a 3 bed house and 3 kids, DS who is 14 has his own room and the girls 10 and 6 1/2 share, theyve a reasonable sized room. We could move to a bigger house but it would be about 60k to be in the area we want and we cant afford it. As the kids get bigger their stuff gets smaller so we manage fine. We also live very tidily and everything has its place so that helps. We have a conservatory as a 2nd sitting room which the kids can use with their friends as they grow up if the girls have trouble sharing a room.

tiamai_d

Gosh, someone dares to mention they are planning children, and 4 at that and they end up getting !!!!!ed at for making plans and wanting a bigger house than certain folk think they need. There's a surprise!

Spendless

2 adults, 2 kids in a 3 bedroomed semi. Here my style of house are 2 double bedrooms and 1 single. The single is not always a 'box' room but very difficult for 2 kids to share plus have space for clothes, toys etc . There are 2 women I know with 4 kids 2 boys then 2 girls and 1 has managed to squeeze 2 kids into the smallest room, the other has put a double bed that will just go in the smallest for her and hubby and given the 2 bigger bedrooms to the kids. If you do have 4 it would also depend on how your mix goes boy, girl, girl, boy for example and you'd have the 2 with the largest age gap sharing when they were older, depends on how long you think it would be before you could make the move to a larger place.

My husband works from home sometimes so to accommodate for that plus DD still having bulky toys and the smallest bedroom we built a summer-house that doubles up as office/playroom. To get round needing the extra living space we built a conservatory and then we were able to move the WM and TD from the cupboard under the stairs (have very small kitchen) and turn it into dowastairs loo.

If you put your thinking cap on though you can always come with ideas. I am about to buy DD a wardrobe that has drawers in it so it has a double function but takes no more floorspace than just a wardrobed. Both my kids have beds where you can push toys under them in storage boxes. I used to hang nappies in a home made hanger from a peg on the wall and so on.

Chinkle

We too! But none are painted as nurseries waiting for occupants.

seven-day-weekend

My sister brought up four children in a three-bedroom house.

Three boys in the largest bedroom room, girl (youngest child) in box room, parents in second bedroom. However, if they had had two of each this arrangement would not have worked as the third bedroom (box room) only had enough space for one.

We had a three-bedroom house with one child, so enough space but sometimes we had a lodger too.

blue_haddock

I've got a 3 bed house - main bedroom, decent second bedroom and a long thin third bedroom.

Having said that there is just me living here so it actually works out as bedroom, dressing room/wardrobe and computer room!

pigpen

FATBALLZ wrote: »

Quit your job and go on the dole. Say you have a bad back and are depressed. Then you'll get a bigger house each time you pop one out.

And you'd know all about that from experience? Yes???

Or, did you never get a council hovel so are a wee bit bitter?

Most councils don't have houses more than 4 or occasionally 5 bedrooms so that is actually a complete falacy.. be nice if it was actually true.. I'd have a mansion!

Maybe you should try reading something other than tabloid comics!

pingua

5 kids and 2 adults in a 3 bed - hubbies bother.

rosalie-lavender

We have 5 bedrooms and there are two adults and three teenagers. One of the teenagers is now at university and spends 30 weeks of the year away. We extended our three bedroomed house mostly because my DH felt we needed more space. He was an only child and had a room of his own and lots of space to himself. I was one of 5 brought up in a 3 bedroomed house so I felt the house was big enough. After we extended and had enough space for the children to have a room each the boys asked to share! It is only now that the eldest is 19 they have decided to have a room each again. We still have bunks in the 17 year old son's room and his 15 year old sister has been known to take up residence in the bottom bunk if she gets nervous about anything. They all have their own rooms but still sometimes share.

What is really useful for us and if you have four children will definitely be helpful is that we have two showers and more than one toilet. Having more than one room downstairs is useful too, I don't have to sit and watch the endless television my OH watches, I can go elsewhere.