My 9yr old daughter shares a room with her 5yr old brother,problem i have is wot colours should i decorate the bedroom with,sorry i havent a clue lol

Hi

Strictly speaking your daughter is of an age where she needs her own room, but as to colours anything that doesn't lean to far towrd either sex and is easy to keep clean I would say.

Steve

Hi,

It does depend a lot on the room and how much light it gets but yellow is a really good colour for a girl her age and is not girlish... or a lovely apple green...

But you may find that you cannot please both of them.

Angela

Is the room big enough to divide into 2 separate "rooms"? Maybe you could divide it with a net (goals maybe) or a camoflague (spelling?) net. I've seen these used on House Invaders and I believe they are available from an army surplus store. Your children will then be responsible for keeping their own "room tidy

hi thanks for replying,the room is big enough to divide,its the biggest bedroom in the house,but the windows are huge and take up the whole wall,im not sure if i would be able to divide the room,but its a possibilty,ideally i would love them to have their own room,but has i a 3bedrom house and 3 children,my teenage son is 16,i felt best option was for the two younger kids to share

I presume UKstyle user has now gone? Quite a problem this really isn't it. Whilst drinking my tea I thought up the following idea.
Use a hardboard room divider which leaves a gap of say two foot before the window. Then use the nets to go across each of the bed spaces to give the privacy they both will eventually need - if not now. That way they both get access to the exit - assuming the door is at the window end. If not it would work in reverse and you could even have hardwood ends with access doors to the little corridor you have made.
The reason I went for hardboard (or whatever) rather than the net is to give that more definite feeling of privacy.
Cheers
Les

When I was little, we lived in a two bedroom house and we were four kids!! We also had the biggest front bedroom which my Dad partitioned off with a wood frame covered in hardboard each side.He left an 18" gap at the top, required by law for fire safety. We three girls had the largest bit and he made my brother a bed with wardrobes underneath in the smaller bit. I am now 49, my Dad and my brother have since passed away unfortunately. But the partition still stands and my grandchildren now sleep in the large part of the room when they stay at their great-nan's and my Mum uses the small part (now without bed) as her sewing room.
It worked great for us, we shared the large window. My brother did the same when he married, had three kids and ended up living two doors away from my Mum, consequently with the same kind of house. It still works well in his house too. It could work very well in your situation.

Hi Linda
what a clever dad you had to make those dividers, and what a good idea too. Its nice that the idea was passed on. I bet this has brought back lots of happy memories
Jacqui D

Hi Style User,

I dont think that this solution is going to last for long. Your son's should really be sharing a bed room - I know it is tough on a teenager but the sooner he gets used to it the better...

Although having said that - my Mothers cousin had three children in a two bedroomed house and their son had his bed in the kitchen pantry...

Isn't there any room to extend into the loft to give you the extra space?.

Angela

i share the loft space with the two adjoining houses,and i really feel that my eldest who is 16 needs his own personal space,i think the age gap bewteen him and the 5yr old son is too big for them to share a room

Hi All
This is a tricky one. Angela is right in that the problem won't last because in 2 years time or so the eldest will be away at college/uni for much of the year and this would free up his room for the younger boy, then 7 yrs.

As an interim measure then I suggest using bunk beds to divide the room. A sheet of hardboard (or similar) pinned to the frame so that the lower bunk only has access to one side, and the top bunk only access (via ladder etc) to the other. Clever use of mirrors and lighting in the side furthest from the window would turn this into a neat dressing room for the young lady.

Best wishes, Trisha