Comments on: How to fit more kids in one room

By: Dawson

Dawson — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:54:59 +0000

I share a room with two brothers and my little brother is getting to big for the top bunk i have a high loft and am bout to be to long and heavy for it and wecdont have the room for 3 twins and we are all almost to big for our beds
I know this website is for moms but im 14 my step brother is 14 and my little step brother is 11 or 12 forget he lies about his age to much
I would realy like to know what to do
I already talked to my mom and we dont have room for Murphy beds but i though it was the solution

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:34:23 +0000

I am a single mother of two girls we live with my mother and grandmother… I feel i have too stay here to help with my mom and grandmother but me and two kids in the smallest room of a three bedroom singlewide is killing me right now I have my bed and a crib in my room my oldest daughter who is four sleeps with me my youngest is two and she sleeps in the crib I am scared to death that she is gonna hurt herself because she keeps climbing out! I also need to get my oldest one out of my bed and into her own! Any Ideas? I have hardly any room because our closet is full of clothes along with two dressers so it is a tight squeeze!

By: lora nassif

lora nassif — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:58:39 +0000

we have a small room and we are three children we want to have three seperate beds but not superpose what can we do if anybody have an idea plz send me a message on this email:chien.chiot@live.com i will be verry happy if sombody send me picture

By: lora nassif

lora nassif — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:55:26 +0000

we have a small room and we are three children we want to have three seperate beds but not superpose what can we do

By: Jessie

Jessie — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:01:14 +0000

Here is a loft bed idea that I totally love: http://www.thehandmadehome.net/2011/08/how-to-build-a-loft/
You could make it whatever size you need, and you could either have storage underneath or bottom bunks underneath depending how many kids you have in the room. In the one in the blog, they used a twin mattress and a toddler mattress, and that just happened to fit perfect, but you could get creative to custom make a mattress for whatever size loft you made. I’m thinking out of foam (especially if you can get it secondhand, then it’s very affordable) or I found this tutorial for making pillow mattresses, http://southerndisposition.blogspot.com/2011/06/pillow-bed-tutorial.html, and I was thinking you could make them out of king size pillows and fill up the loft with that, it would be awesome. I already made one out of regular size pillows and it’s totally easy and comfortable.

By: Deanie

Deanie — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:54:58 +0000

Hi,
I am moving into a small house my 4 boys will share a 3mt by 6mt room, (we are in australia sorry about measurements) their ages are 13, 10, 3.5 and 2…

I want some ideas that provide a bit of “ME” space but also keep them in the same room.

http://clotheslinetinyhomes.com/blog-2/, there is a loft bed with storage under here, but i am not sure about the head height you need to be comfortable…

Any ideas would be appreciated…

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 24 May 2012 03:12:54 +0000

I have 3 boys sharing a room and just now googled a way to use the space more effectively for them… I love the pics and ideas. My youngest son was 3 when he went happily into a bunk. I wont put the next son into one as he seems to fall out of his bed alot, so he’s on the bottom bunk and my 11yr old is on a mattress on the floor. With my youngest son now almost 6yrs, I fold a blanket and put it under the mattress on the outside of his bunk (it has no rails)…this gives the mattress a little bit of a slant to the side and he doesn’t roll off… and he has never fallen out of the bunk.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:09:38 +0000

We have three ages 3, 2, and 7 months in one TINY bedroom. A friend custom built bunking toddler beds for us. They take a crib sized mattress and the top bunk is only 3 feet off the floor. Now they all fit and our 3 year old can be on top.

By: Ebba

Ebba — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:43:59 +0000

@bridgette I’m facing the same problem, due in July with my third. I will have a 21 month old son and 3.5 year old daughter at the time. We are going to put the two oldest together. That way we can still have the traditional nursery….rocker, changing table, baby stuff. Plus, the baby probably won’t be sleeping through the night and I wouldn’t want to wake the other kiddos. This way the toddlers can have all of their play things in one room, and They are also on more similar sleep schedules.
We are thinking of doing the pbk loft bed for our daughter so there is room for our sons toddler bed, and she can have her kitchen underneath the loft. We can just do bedding that coordinates well for both boys and girls.
When the third is out of the baby phase then we will probably move them into either the “boys” or “girls” room depending on what we have. Hope that helps. Congratulations

By: Bridgette

Bridgette — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:09:09 +0000

I have only 2 kids right now, with the 3rd on the way. I have a boy and girl now and they each have their own room, but when this baby gets here 2 kids will be sharing a room (planning to group either boys together or girls together, depending on what gender baby 3 is). BUT, on the bunk bed comments — My son has a bunk bed in his room, and has for a year, because my niece stays a lot. He won’t be 5 until June. So he’s been sleeping on the top bunk since he was 3 1/2. I was really concerned because he tosses and turns a LOT (more like he falls asleep with his head on his pillow, then ends up horizontal or upside down in his bed). But he does fine, great even. We just have this bunk bed from walmart, that has a rail along the edge. As long as you make sure to buy a mattress that is made FOR bunk beds, so that it is lower than the rail, it shouldn’t be a problem. Also making sure the child is old enough to climb up and down on his or her own, and knows not to stand on the top bunk. That depends on the child of course. Hope that helps!
Now my issue that I’m facing, is how to fit the “belongings” of an infant into the bedroom of a toddler (my daughter will be 2 1/2 when the baby is here) or bedroom of a 5 1/2 year old. The kids’ rooms are not that big as it is, and I’ve worked hard on the organization that we’ve finally worked out in there. Now I’m looking at starting over, and making not only another person fit in there (sleeping arrangements) but also, at least for a while, a crib, changing table, and probably even a rocker. Not sure how to work that one out. Putting all those things into our bedroom isn’t going to cut it either. As it is, our bedroom doubles as an office AND homeschool space. They should make a version of a bunk bed, but a lot shorter/lower, and it should be toddler bed and crib combined. HAHA.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:53:52 +0000

The ceiling is 7ft 8in tall. The bunks are small and thin width wise. But its perfect for kids. The big kids bunks measure 67*28 and 5inches thick. The little kids is 55*24 and 3inches thick. I custom made the mattresses with foam I bought at Joann’s and then I sewed up a mattress cover for them. One mattress is on the floor on each side of the bunks, and then we just put the middle bunk in the middle of the vertical space that we had to work with. The hardest part of this was finding the studs in the wall. We wanted to make sure we didn’t wake up to squashed kids!

By: Jessie

Jessie — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:53:07 +0000

Laura, those custom bunk beds look cool. Can I ask what the height of the room is? Wondering if we could fit a triple stacker in my boys’ room.