How To Fit Three Kids In One Bedroom – Large Family House Tour
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So, one of the most common questions I get when people find out we have six children is, “How do you have the bedrooms set up?” Amazingly, I think we live in a culture where people think children need their own rooms. I grew up in a family with three children and I was the only girl, so I had a room to myself. While I did like having a room to myself, I will say I wasn’t a big fan of having to sleep by myself. My kids actually prefer to share rooms with each other. Today, I’m going to show you how to fit three kids in one bedroom. Now, I know that is really not a crazy amount of children to put into one room, but it’s the most we have in one bedroom as of right now. Large family living is pretty fun for us!
Ways to Fit Three Kids in One Bedroom
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So, when you’re trying to come up with a room configuration for three children I think the main thing to figure out is the bed situation. Bunk beds are the most obvious choice. I’ve seen several really awesome bunk bed configurations on Pinterest. I’ve seen triple bunks and bunk beds placed in an L shape.
In our house, we have placed a bunk bed on one side of the room, and a toddler bed on the other side of the room. When my toddler graduates from his toddler bed, we will add another bunk bed to his side of the room and also move our youngest son into the room with them.
My kids’ bunk bed is old. Believe it or not, they didn’t use to make bunk beds with guard rails on top. So, we added our own Safety 1st rail. Yes, it’s seen better days, but it has done its job. He doesn’t get close to falling out of the bed anymore anyway. We plan to get two new sets of bunk beds, but what we have now is working just fine. You know how it goes when you’re living simply. Use it til you can’t anymore!
Currently, we have two dressers in this bedroom. My oldest son uses the small dresser, and my other two sons share the larger dresser. We do have a TV in this room with a DVD player. The kids really only watch DVDs on occasion. I personally hate TVs in kids’ bedrooms, but my opinion isn’t the only one that matters in this house if ya know what I mean. LOL! And we do anchor dressers to the walls! We use these anchors.
We don’t have a playroom, so toys are stored in bedrooms here. The boys have a train table with some storage bins underneath. One has LEGOs and the other that I forgot to show has a wooden train set. They mostly build LEGOs at the train table.
The boys also have road rugs down on the floor that they like to use to play with their cars.
I have some cube storage in this room. The boys display LEGO creations on top of it. One bin has my oldest sons LEGOs and books, another has some random stuff in it, another has their toy animals, and they have a cube for books. Most of our books are stored in the living room, though.
The closet holds nicer shirts, a toy box with larger toys, the boys’ sleeping bags, science kits/snap circuits, Lincoln logs, bike helmets, toy cars, and some miscellaneous linens and hand me down clothes.
And that’s about it. Definitely not a designer bedroom, but it works for us!
Watch the full tour below!
Do you have multiple kids in one bedroom? How do you do it?
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We used to have two kids per bedroom plus a large toy room. It was too much work keeping it all clean so we just moved all four of my boys into the toy room. We have two sets of bunk beds against one wall. They were the exact size of the wall! The ceilings are vaulted so we built a shelf above them that spans the entire wall. There’s a half wall with storage, and a small space for their four dressers. The rest of the main room is taken up with toys and four bookshelves. We turned the old bedrooms into a guest bedroom/sewing room, and an exercise/media room. It is so exciting!
Thank you for sharing about how you have your boys room set up. We also have 3 of our boys in one room. My husband built a triple bunk bed last summer and it gives them a little more floor space to be able to play in there. We did have to attach the bed to the wall and if we ever move it will have to stay, it’s too heavy and cumbersome to try to move.
I also have six kids and love hearing how other moms configure their kids’ rooms! Right now, we have not only our six kids (3 older girls and 3 younger boys) but also 2 exchange students living with us. Since our 3 boys are ages 8, 5, and 3; we have them all in one room sleeping together in one bed! We put a queen sized bed sideways in their room, and it made sort of a short king-sized bed. Our boys love to sleep together; they used to have bunk beds but would all crunch up in the bottom bunk—now they are so happy to share a “big bed”. They also have a train table that they use for legos. Love to be creative with sleeping arrangements. Sharing creates character!!
I’m 14 and may be sharing a room with both my little sisters, as opposed to just one. My dad takes up the closet, there’s a clothes rack for all 5 of the kids occupying one wall, and my youngest sister’s dresser fills most of another wall. We have a triple bunkbed that we’d share. How do we fit two more dressers in there and still have enough breathing room?
I have 4 kids in one room. Size is 10′ x 11′. We purchased a bunkbed with a single on top, double on the bottom and a trundle. 2 kids share the double bed. 2 dressers and a huge barbie house, which sits in the closet. The closet has removable sliding doors so we just keep them off. We also use long flat bins under the bed with pj’s, shoes, and other stuff. The trudle stays out all the time. Most of the toys are in the basement and we bring them up as needed. Although, these kids are 16-6 in age and prefer more electronical games over actual hands on toys. Lego are everywhere here too! My other 3 kids share another bedroom, same size but one of them likes to sleep on a pallet on the floor. Just rolls it up every morning. We also hang a lot of clothes like shirts to cut down on dresser drawer clutter.
Its not ideal but in a 1250 sq ft home with 9 people and 3 cats, it is what works for us. Good post an and love your set up.
We had 9 kids and 3 foster kids and a couple foreign exchange students over the years. We just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. Seeing all these room sharing arrangements brings me lots of smiles and great memories. I love seeing real life solutions. Just so happy that all my kids have great bonds with each other and get along so well. I think it’s because they grew up sharing rooms. Bless all you moms of large families.
Hi Alma
What a lovely letter. If more families would know the benefits of siblings living together closely they would not give them what the world says they need. Of course they need to be up to date as they get older to insure they can build their life. I am 81 yrs young and just love the small houses. It will definitely work with imagination and planning .