How big is your house?
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Topic: How big is your house?
Posted By: EthansMummy
Subject: How big is your house?
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 11:47am
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We are renting a two bedroom house at the moment (rent it off family so cheap rent and don't want to move). The baby will be in the basinet in our room for as long as possible and will then move to the cot in the room with Ethan. I just wondered if anyone else had a toddler and a baby sharing a room?? How did it go? I guess we could move if we needed to but with rent at the moment is not something i want to do. ------------- ** MUM TO ** Ethan 29/08/2006 Brooke 22/09/2008 |
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 12:02pm
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We don't have a toddler but do have lil Phoenix. We live in a 2 bedroom unit in a large complex and it's quite small. We definately have plans to move out soon as bubs already looks big in his portable baby bath. I couldn't even imagine him learning to crawl here. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 12:22pm
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Our house is tiny (1 bedroom!) but are living rent free at the moment so are trying to stay as long as we can and save money.
We have had DD in our bedroom since she was born. She has her own corner which we have decorated just for her and have curtained off for privacy. And very soon we are going to be squeezing another baby in there too....eeek!! I dont mind too much sharing my room and its all DD has ever known. I find it easy having a small hous because there is less space to mess up and I can watch DD all day without having to move around all the time. We just have to be really creative with space - Once the baby is out of her basinette we are planning on putting in little bunks. I'm very nervous how its all going to work but I guess you just make it. I have seen people living even smaller and they seem to be quite happy.  ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 12:31pm
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We have quite a big house (altho it doesn't seem that big when the gremlins rampage thru it!), four bedrooms so Maya has her own room and the gremlins share. I'm using the fourth bedroom as an office/spare room so will turn that into a nursery for baby at some stage before it's born. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: BellaBoo
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 12:37pm
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We live in a shoebox.... but a lovely cheap shoebox and that is why we won't move just yet. It was originally a large one bedroom but we banged up a few walls to make a nursery. We rent off family for a measly $60 a week which allows us to save for a deposit to buy a house when the market is more of a "buyers market". ------------- http://lilypie.com">   http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 12:45pm
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We are in a 3brm Villa. The living room is quite small, but it will do. The kitchen however is big, not sure why we don't spend alot of time in there actually.
Cooper is in with us for the time being. It's fine. Mind you with Dh's snoring and Coopers sleepy noises sometimes I wonder if I should move out to the lounge! Not sure what we'll do once he's older. We don't want to move as we love our house and the rent is way below market rent for our area. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 1:03pm
I wish we had cheap rent, I pay more in rent than a lot of people pay in mortgage  ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: AliaDawn
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 1:22pm
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We have a small-ish 2 bedroom flat - the lack of a back-yard gets me more than anything... We're TTC, and baby will be in with us until we get around to moving somewhere. Seb is a light sleeper, so we'll see how he is when older. -------------  
 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 1:30pm
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3 bedrooms here although we'll have the babies in 1 room for a while I think and keep the spare room as it is. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: EllenMumof2
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 2:05pm
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4 bedrooms here and love it all the kids get there own room -------------  
 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 2:46pm
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I have a 3 bedroom place and its great. The boys have a room each. The only down side it that we don't have a dining room so the boys don't eat at the table at night for dinner. We so brought at the right time when we got this house. I had to go into the bank and get some mortgage stuff for the army (so they can give us more money) and our mortgage isn't that bad ($520 a fortnight), if we were to rent around here we would be paying about the same if not more for what we have. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 3:34pm
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Our neighbours have their toddler (3) and baby (1) in the same room. It works fine except if one is awake, they are both awake. IYKWIM!! -------------  
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 3:38pm
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DD is a very deep sleeper and sleeps through almost anything, I'm just hoping she'll stay like this when the second one arrives. -------------
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Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 3:41pm
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We are in a four bedroom house. Currently we have a relative living with us, but she will be going before bubs is due. The only downside for us is having rellies come to stay, w now have no where to put them!! LOL ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 3:46pm
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We have a four bedroom ones a computer , then spare for when family comes down, one for James and one for us. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 5:21pm
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We have 3 bedrooms + 1 for our boarder + 1 which is our study. So Hannah and Briona are currently room-sharing. We have had a variety of room-sharing tries, including when we were in a 3bdrm when Briona was born.
So some little glimses for you: I have found it hard to room H & B because Hannah wakes far easier than Briona. As a result she chats a lot particularly first thing in the morning and Briona gets grumpy. It's a personality thing, B has always been that way! Kryssi has a far easier going personality and she and Hannah have roomed before, quite successfully. She's about to move out of the cot which is why we have halted that for a while. When Kryssi was born I kept her in our bedroom until her night sleeping had settled somewhat, then moved her in with Hannah (then 3) who didn't wake when I went in for feeds twice nightly. Last month we went away for a week-long holiday in a two bedroom house, so all the girls went in together. They loved it and Kryssi even learned to scream until the older girls came to bed as well LOL It's certainly worth a try - keep baby in your room for the first month (in bassinette) if you can, then move them in together and see how it goes. Because your older one is so young he'll probably settle into it fairly easily; if not you can make the moving decision then. ------------- |
Posted By: shaz
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 7:18pm
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We have 3brms upstairs and a self contained one bedroom flat downstairs which my Mum lives in.
Natasha used to share a room and the smallest bedroom we used as a playroom. Now Natasha has the small room and Alex has a double bedroom. Alyssa is still in our room and I think eventually it will be Alyssa and Alex that share as Natasha doesn't wont to share with Alex. Also Natasha coughs ALL THE TIME!!!!! which drives everybody nuts. Alex can sleep through anything but they fight if they have to spend too much time together so putting them together will only make that worse (for me). So even if Alyssa wakes during the night Alex wouldn't wake up. Now I want a bigger house, I'm over this one as we have been here 9 years done renovations etc which were planned before we thought about Alyssa so didn't think we needed another room. But I love this street and the girls have friends that they play with all the time so maybe in a few years we will think of moving. ------------- Mum to Natasha Aroha 9/12/1995, Alexandra Makareta Waimarie 22/4/1998 and....Alyssa Frances Hopaea 18/03/2007 
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Posted By: BabyOnBoard
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 7:28pm
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I know a family in a two bedroom house and their 3 kids share. It works for them but they have done it from day dot and the kids have grown with it ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: aussiegirl
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 7:52pm
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We are currently in a 3 bedroom house, but will be moving before bubs is born into a 2 bedroom (very small!) rental while our new house is getting built ( 3 bedroom + office).
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 8:02pm
| big house and yet still not enough room here...4 bedrooms, and ella has her own ensuite on her bedroom as we all do....not sure we will ever have enough room reallly. |
Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 8:30pm
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Ok, we don't have kids yet but our PLAN is...we have just bought a 2 bdrm plus conservatory house. We are going to open up the conservatory into the master bedroom, and use it as an office, and a nursery when needed. It's big enough for a single bed as well. The second bedroom will stay a spare room until the kids are a little older, and if we have two in that house, the older will move into the spare room while the younger one is in the "nursery" and then they will share when the youngest is a little older. Or that's what the plan is! If there's a 3rd, we would have to move, no doubt about it LOL
Then again, it might not work well if our children turn out as stubborn and independent as I am... |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 8:38pm
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We have a 3 bedroom place and on the back of our garage is 2 extra rooms plus a kitchenette that use to be kind of a flat and we find this place too small sometimes! lol
DH use to own a 2 bedroom town house type thing and I told him there was no way that I would raise kids in that house, it was too small. |
Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 8:48pm
| We have a 3 bedroom villa, so no room to expand really. We're thinking of converting our front room (which is the dining room) into an office for all the crap and computers to go in, the middle room will be the spare room, the back room is the babys and the front bedroom is ours. We have a big garage should we ever need more space, but we hope to build at some point over the next 10 years, so we wont be here forever. |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 12 February 2008 at 9:55pm
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My friend used to nanny for a family in parnell somewhere.
They had 3 boys, and a 7 bedroom house, but it wasnt big enough , so they are building one with 8 bedrooms, apparently the mother needs a house with four spare rooms, for her sister that comes and stays once a year.
Seems to me some people have more money than sense. Im living with my parents in a four bedroom which is fine(ish) but i want to get out on my own so DP and i (plus his current flatmate) will get a 3 bedroom, will be easier with the rent divided 3ways, and 3 bedrooms the rooms and garden tend to be bigger |