I forgot about trundles! Maybe that third bedroom could fit three after all.
I love trundles! If you don’t need it for a bed yet, it’s still fantastic for clothes storage. The biggest challenge for fitting multiple children in a room is often storing clothes. Three of mine shared a room with a very small closet and no dresser, so I store the out-of-season clothes and the hand-me-downs-in-waiting in a trundle. No one (except me!) is able to shove stuff under the bed because of the trundle.
Clothes storage is the tricky part. We mainly hang everything in closets. Dressers and baskets for things we can’t possibly hang (underwear, socks, that kind of stuff. One closet by the back door is just for shoes. Off season clothes are boxed up and stored in the shed. at a previous house we had a very large laundry room that we used as a huge closet. We hung the off season clothes there and I kind of miss that now that my kids are older. At the time it was awful because they were all under 9 and it was a constant mess with them pulling things off hangers as they searched for their clothes and then leaving them in the floor. Now most are big enough that wouldn’t happen.I love trundles! If you don’t need it for a bed yet, it’s still fantastic for clothes storage. The biggest challenge for fitting multiple children in a room is often storing clothes. Three of mine shared a room with a very small closet and no dresser, so I store the out-of-season clothes and the hand-me-downs-in-waiting in a trundle. No one (except me!) is able to shove stuff under the bed because of the trundle.
If you are planning on adding a half bath later, I would at the very least try to have a place for it already if you can (accessible to plumbing etc). It can be expensive to add one later (having to break flooring to get plumbing through, etc). Also, depending on whether you are septic or city water, there could be other repercussions. We were looking at adding a full or half bath to our house and there was a lot to it (that added up in $$$ too).
That is exactly what we are doing. We do not necessarily need it now, so it will be a storage closet with plumbing for a half bath, unless we are just flush with money and go ahead and finish it out. But the kds are not old enough to do anything but the oldest pee on his own, they do not need their own yet lol.
5 kids–we had 3 boys in one room and 2 girls in another room–and we have one bathroom. Big enough–I always tell the kids even if we were to move to a larger house I’d still have them share a room–I think it’s been good for them–I think the 2 older girls are closer for it. Sometimes I think a second bathroom would be nice.
I am one of 9 kids. We had about 7 bedrooms.