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bedroom help / 3 kids!

11 months ago

This bedroom has two long closets attached to it (not seen in photo) so all I need help with is how to get 3 twin size beds (if possible) and have the room split in half some way.

I’m thinking maybe use floor to ceiling curtains to dice the space? One side would be for my daughter (age 11) and the other side shared by
My boys (ages 7/9). We dont really want to use bunk beds though.

Any ideas would be great!
Thank you!!

Comments (21)

  • 11 months ago

    We were three in a room most of my life. Two sets of bunkbeds, one dresser. The footprint of three separate beds will leave you no other space so the room will be a sleeping dorm and that's about it. If not already your daughter very soon will only be dressing in the bathroom. I don't suppose there's a walk in closet in that room. Setting it up so the walk in was hers to dress get privacy and have the boys use only a dresser would be helpful. Being the oldest I had one set of bunk beds to myself. At one point I pushed the bed away from the wall, attempting to create a bit of a hall that was all mine. A curtain on the opposite side of the bed would create a screen, cocooning her area.

  • 11 months ago

    It would be more efficient use of space and less crowded if the boys had a bunk bed. It will be important to have separation of the two spaces so each can have their privacy.



  • PRO
    11 months ago

    How many bedrooms are in your house? The floor plan says "primary bedroom" so why 3 kids/2 genders in one room? I wouldn't go through all the trouble of trying to shoehorn 3 beds in that room. You can tell me to mind my own business, but your daughter deserves her own room/privacy.

  • PRO
    11 months ago

    That room at most can handle 2 twins so a bunk bed for the boys and honestly if at all possible a small room for th girl. Where are the closets maybe you can steal space from them ? Sorry there is no privacy when 2 young boys share a space with an older sister.

  • 11 months ago

    It’s a 2 bedroom. If it were 3, she would def get her own room.

    Anyone have luck with a Murphy bed? We may have to put that in the living room and have the kids take the bedrooms

  • PRO
    11 months ago

    No basement or attic?

  • 11 months ago

    No :/

  • 11 months ago

    What’s good is what we don’t need space for dressers or anything as there are two walk-in closets

  • 11 months ago

    I think you are correct in considering a Murphy bed in the living room. She is 11 and in just 7 years she maybe away at college or studying for college in her own room. Give her the smaller bedroom. Put the boys in the bigger bedroom. Time will fly by and before you know it, you will have your own bedroom again. Your daughter is nearing an age for privacy and this may be your only solution for now.

  • 11 months ago

    Can one of the walk in closets be a cozy sleeping cave for your daugher?

  • 11 months ago

    Cozy sleeping cave in a closet? I totally understand the dilemma here and the constraints of budgets. But every sleeping room needs to have exterior egress window or door, per building code.

  • PRO
    11 months ago

    If you would prefer a comfortable sleeper sofa that can be used on a daily basis instead of a Murphy bed, the one from Koala looks nice and seems to have very good reviews.

    Queen size - available in about 5 colours.



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  • 11 months ago

    Just to be clear, this primary bedroom is the largest of the two?

    I agree with auntthelma. Take off the doors of one walk in closet. You can maybe build a smaller bed if a twin mattress is too big.

    Another idea is to get a day bed for the boys and just pull out the second bed at night.

    I grew up with a highriser. It had bolsters and my sister and I sat on it during the day.

    If you go the Murphy route you do want good quality. But, I think the mattress is the key.

    I once slept on one in a hotel and I couldn’t believe how comfortable it was.

    I think it is okay for the next few years to the children to share. Once your daughter becomes a teen you need to reevaluate.

    In NYC people put up temporary walls. Not sure if this could be an option.

  • PRO
    11 months ago

    eld6161 has a good idea with the temporary walls. that could be a solution.

  • PRO
    11 months ago
    last modified: 11 months ago

    Where is the ENTIRE? apartment/house floor plan, INCLUDING THE LIVING ROOM, please. You don't do this concept unless moving in 6 months.

    Biology has evolved over time. There are girls with full breasts at age 12.......menstrual periods as early as that.

    Has to be a better way

    Which might include DAD sleeps with the boys, and you and the young lady take the second bedroom. No I am not kidding. The man bedroom becomes the primary MAN sleep space.




    Not all little girls are still "little girls" at eleven or twelve and they are very young women, discovering/adjusting to very new bodies. They are deserving of some privacy from rambunctious and curious little boys .

    Pictures of the space would be helpful as well.


  • 11 months ago

    If the closets are at the bottom, they appear to be fairly wide. You may well be able to create a decent sleeping nook out of them.

  • PRO
    11 months ago
    last modified: 11 months ago

    "What’s good is what we don’t need space for dressers or anything as there are two walk-in closets "

    Kids have no other stuff. LOL! They don't need a lamp? Seriously? A tween girl has no tween junk.......

    There is nothing "good"! ( for all the reasons I mentioned earlier)

    If you insist on all three together?

    It is bunks with a separation, boys in the bunks


  • 11 months ago
    last modified: 11 months ago

    Can the two long closets create more square footage OR can the two long closets create another room? I would like to see how the two long closets come into play. Possible idea attached without knows outside the perimeters of your posted image.


  • 11 months ago

    Gotta love all the judgment. I apologize there are many here who do not easily focus on the truth that many who come here for help are not in the financial strata as those who 'help'. Two walk-in closets is a good thing. I do not see footage for three single beds. Your daughter's privacy is not dependent on a large space. I think of the tiny tiny store room I chose to transform vs share with my sisters when I was her age and I know space is not what she will need. I did have a basement size window under the eves. In Bev's drawing if you lose the side tables for the bed will two head boards fit on the far small wall with the third bed on the right wall? Unfortunately this does not give your daughter her space as her bed would be in front of the closets and door--and can't be curtained off. Where are these closets? Do they share a wall? Perhaps they can be combined and wardrobes could be enlisted?

  • 11 months ago

    What if you get her a loft bed and curtain off the space under the bed? How cozy!

  • 11 months ago

    Would love to see the floor plan of the whole house and especially of the closets. There may be space available that you havent thought of.

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