Shared Kids’ Room Ideas

Siblings are a blessing and a mess. What if the time has come for your child to share a room with a sibling?

We know that some of our readers face the task of making one room for children to share. It happens for many reasons. Some decide to transition their children into one kids’ room to form the special bond between them, other – due to squeezed sleeping arrangement options. Whether for a downsizing reason, or out of preference – the time has come, and we, the FurnitureCart team, are here to give you a few ideas on how to enhance the room for the little ones and encourage you.

In nearly two-thirds of American homes with at least two children under 18, the kids share a room. Many of them choose to have 2-3 children tucked into a single bedroom, leaving the other bedrooms empty until guests come for a visit. Evidenced by Chicago Tribune, the average American home sizes are growing, still, spare bedrooms are used as alternative rooms (for home offices and playrooms) and guest rooms.

Why?

Sharing a single room is good for developing a tribe mentality from sharing a lot of things – both tangible and intangible, from toys and bunk beds to ideas, thoughts, emotions, as well as parents.

What Is Good About It?

Sharing the room will teach children how to negotiate, how to work out conflicts and compromise. After all, these are important skills to develop. And they will definitely develop a closer bond with time.

Will It Work?

With the basic success rules and creative thinking, you will find out that things are even better than they seem when you put those two together in one room.

If you’re on a stage of designing a shared space – the kids’ room – you’ll definitely want to keep even the most reluctant roommates happy. Here are the key rules for a happier room shared:

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Personalize the space for each of them. As all privacy disappears, it is also important for each child to have their own respected space within the kids’ room to put their personal things. Consider buying 2 of everything (2 beds equal beds or a bunk bed, 2 dressers, 2 nightstands, etc.), and create a separate area of the room for each child. In the future (or now), you will have to think about the best way to insert study stuff (a kid’s home office) for the older one and to keep it right within the borders of a shared room.

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Settle the sleep schedule. If the kids are of different ages (for instance babies and toddlers, and even preschoolers) you will have to settle the schedule for each of them separately until they grow up into the age of “chatting before going to bed”. If one needs to go to bed around 8 p.m., and the other won’t fall asleep until 9-9:30, you will have to put your baby to bed first, and use extra time with your older child for extra bed-time reading, longer bath, and even cuddle time. Shop for Baby Furniture

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The room sharing gets easier with time. Though the shared-bedroom sleeping arrangements probably seem not an easy process at first, with the months and years to come it is getting easier. You will see what you need to be improved, organized and changed due to the needs and characters of your kids. And you will find out that once they get used to sharing a room, they can’t sleep any other way.