House too small...

skintchick

I used to have a friend who was 21 and shared with her 14 year old brother. Why can't the OP's children just share?

Oh and this was in 1994 so not donkeys' ago!

Jowo_2

Mid 1980s - 3 bedroom terrace - two double & one single bedroom.

Husband and wife in one double, Mother in law in the single, 4 children (3 girls, one boy) aged between 5 and 16 in the other double (bunk bed and double bed).

laurel7172

If your OH is in the building trade, could you get an extension/loft conversion done cheaply?? You might have to save up for the materials if you can't get credit...

olly300

One of my neighbours use to put her daughter in the living room and her sons in bedroom 2. And this was in the last 2 years.

To put it bluntly OP people have always managed in spaces that are too small. It's only now that people are expecting separate bedrooms for kids.

tabskitten

My two sisters and i shared a bed room with bunkbeds until my parents could afford an extension,i actually remember that it was really fun and we missed sharing when we got our own rooms- on one to giggle with!!

jackieb

I have 3 boys and 1 daughter. We had 2 bedrooms until my daughter was 5, then we converted the loft (she shared a room with her dad and me). My youngest son and daughter still shared a room until he was 13 and she was 10 (fortunately they didn't fight). By that time my eldest moved out and youngest son moved upstairs so daughter had her own room. (We now have 4 bedrooms and eldest son is 26 and has moved back while saving for a deposit).

It's not the end of the world if they have to share. Really, it's not. I knew someone who had 4 boys (2 sets of bunks in 1 room), 3 daughters (double and single bed in other bedroom), and they, the parents, on bed settee in the livingroom.

Fire_Fox

We had three double bedrooms most of my childhood - there were two parents, a paying lodger and two children that hated each other so much sharing was not an option! I slept in the second reception (off the kitchen) until my parents divided the master bedroom into two. Twice a year we had one or other set of grandparents to stay so us kids would both sleep downstairs. We never knew any different and had friends who shared with a sibling so don't recall feeling hard done by by not having my own room.

lincroft1710

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Originally Posted by lincroft1710
Over 50 yrs we had neighbours who had a small 3 bed (2DB, 1SB), 2 recep pre 1914 terr house. There was mother, father, son (late teens), daughter (20s) plus a middle aged male lodger.

Please don't ask because I don't know what the sleeping arrangements were!!
Mum and Dad in db1. The lodger in db2. One of the children in sb. Other child in one of the reception rooms. Other reception room as sitting room.

Sorted!

I didn't say I couldn't work out what the sleeping arrangements might have been, just that I didn't know what they actually were.

SazM030306

We have DS7, DD5 and one on the way and we live in a 2 bed front terrace. It is a squish but we can't afford to move for at least two years when the loan will be paid off.
The cot is going in our room for probably 6 months, then who knows, we'll have to deal with it when the time comes.
We only have a living room and a small kitchen downstairs, no extra rooms, but, outside our bathroom is an extra 'space' which could at a push be used as someone's 'area' not necessarily for sleeping in as you have to walk through it to get to the bathroom.
We will manage and there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel.
xxx