Social Housing and Adequate Space

delain

Try the Homeswapper website, you just join it and anyone interested in swapping with you just emails you via it.

ormus

3 bedroms is more than adequate for 5 peeps.
and never mind social housing for space, have you actually ever seen a new barratt house?

claire1234

at my mums my sister had the "box" room and mum got one of these folding doors so that there was room for a bed and wardrobe,
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7014288/Trail/searchtext%3EFOLDING+DOOR.htm

if you cant do anything with the box room id consider putting a double in the back bedroom for the adults and a bunk bed & single in the master bedroom for all the kids,

we use to have one of those bunk beds where it has a double on bottom & single on top & that went in the front bedroom, we currently have the back bedroom for us & the front bedroom has 2 single`s for when/if the step-kids coem to stay (plus some fold away beds incase they want friends over) and the box bedroom is a office/computer room,

hth

Becles

My two year old daughter is in our smallest bedroom. Due to the position of the door and a raised box that covers the stairwell, and a radiator under the window, there are no free walls to put a single bed on.

I bought her a daybed, which is bed with a raised frame round three sides. You can put cushions against the back to make it into a sofa during the day. It's against the wall with the radiator on, but the metal frame means she can't roll into the radiator and burn herself.

When she's a bit older, I'll buy cushions for when she has her mates round and they can all sit up there.

Would something like that be of use?

hermum

You can also get sliding doors so that you don't lose any space in the small bedroom. You could remove the cupboard in the 2nd bedroom have all 3 kids in there & use the box room for the kids storage, if all 3 could be in one room. Although the box room doesn't soud too small to me, it will just need a little planning, building a cabin bed with storage under would probably be the best solution. A friend of mine has a guest house & her 20 year old daughter's bedroom is something like 5'2" X 6' yes it's not ideal but she goes to sleep in it & needs to store her clothes in it. Could you afford to have rads moved, to gain a little extra space?
What ages-sexes are the kids?
Unfortunately social housing is so difficult to get now that depending on where you are a mutual exchange will be the only way you will ever be able to get bigger rooms.