Have Your Kids Double Up and Create a Playroom We talk all the time about siblings sharing bedrooms in small homes, but perhaps you have enough room for each child to have their own bedroom if they wanted, but your family decides to do something else with that extra room. This beautiful bunk bed set up allows what would have been a bedroom for one child to become a shared playroom instead. Many kids actually prefer to share a room with a brother or sister and this seems like a win-win. They may change their minds when they're older, but by then they will have outgrown the desire for a playroom, too. We spotted this room in a worth-the-visit gallery of kids' room design at Canadian House and Home . (Photograph: Ted Yarwood for Canadian House & Home) Comments ( 18 ) While I had my own room as a child, I'm sure I wouldn't have minded sharing with my sister if we got a special play room! My kids share a room and the 3rd room is just toys. Everyone loves it, and it makes cleanup easier to keep all the toys in one room. Someday we'll have to adjust since we'd like to have more kids, but for now, it's great. posted by elizarock on August 23rd 2010 at 1:18pm view elizarock's profile How do playrooms work, really? I never had one, and I don't quite understand the concept--do you send your kids off to play there while you spend time doing your own thing? Maybe it's because my husband and I both work, but when we're home, we want to be WITH our kid. So, we keep many of her toys and activities easily accessible and neatly stored in our common space (living room/dining room). Right now we only have a 2 yr old (and a baby on the way), so we couldn't really send her off on her own to play anyway, but I think I'd still prefer the idea of the kids mostly hanging out in common spaces with us anyway, and going up to their room(s) if they needed some alone time/privacy/whatever. FWIW, our baby on the way is a boy, so we do plan on the kids having separate rooms. I don't think a mixed g

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