How Should I Decide Who Gets the Bigger Room?

put the younger one right next to you, and then when a new baby comes it will go in there with her when you are ready ( if you are cosleeping it might not be for a while anyway...) A family I babysat for when I was younger had 2 girls and a boy, all about 2-3 years apart and they switched the room arangements from time to time as the kids grew up and none of them were shaken up about changing rooms. at one point the two girls (oldest) were sharing while the boy (youngest) had his own room. later the oldest girl was given her own room and the younger two shared.
It might be different for you because of the age difference, but I don't see that as too big of an issue. I would just want the younger one closer.

oldest child gets the biggest room, its the trade off for not getting to be the baby anymore. Better stuff, bigger room.

Well first, I would definitely say you are planning on getting pregnant! :)

I would give the larger room to your older son. If you have a baby, the crib can be in your room for 6 months or so, then move it into the 3 year old's room, whether the baby is a boy or not. I know several young siblings that are brother and sister that share a room up until they are about 5 years old or so. If you do have a baby, when the time is ready to switch rooms to the larger room to accommodate a crib, it can be a fun time for all.

Ask you son which room he wants....if he is indifferent give them larger room to the child who has more stuff. In this case it sounds like your daughter may have more toys.
I don't agree that the older child should automatically get the larger room. Heck a pre-teen boy doesn't even spend time in his room, he's outside playing, playing video games and getting into sports. He doesn't need a lot of space in my opinion.
Good luck!

I think it depends on how much you think each of them will be using the room. Do they play in their rooms? Will their furniture and "stuff" fit better into one room vs. the other room?

Also, could you let your son pick? Go to the house and take a tour, and say this is mommy and daddy's room, which one is going to be yours?

Have fun moving in!

I say, let your son have the bigger room for now. If you get pregnant then you can change the bedrooms around and let the two younger ones share, no matter what the sex of the new love is. So then your older son can have the smaller room and the two others have the bigger room.

If he throws a fit, you can tell him, its either have your own room to yourself or have the baby in there with you and share.
Pretty sure he will take his own room lol.

Dont fret too much I think you are getting ahead of yourself a bit! Take it one day at a time and enjoy the fact that you have plenty of room for everybody at the moment, and be glad that your getting a house! Yay!
Congrats, and best wishes :)

I think you are worrying about this too much.
I grew up with a mom who was a notorious room flipper and furniture mover.
Let the older child have the bigger room. After all, he is 7 and it makes more of a difference to him than a 2 year old. She's not even in her own room yet.
And, you don't even have another child on the way yet.
You can always change things down the road later if need be.

Congratulations on your bigger house! It sounds like a real blessing for you!

Yep, hon. You're overthinking. Say you do have a baby, getting preggers tonight. You've got almost 2 years from today before rooms become an issue. If you need to move your oldest into the smaller room in 2 years you just spin it as "getting their OWN room", instead of having to share.

But in 2 years, your needs very well may change. You may want the older 2 in one room, you may be planning on moving again, heck... you may decide to put all 3 kids in the master and have it be a giant playroom / kid's bath since you 2 have the whole rest of the house and turn the 3rd room into an office.

give the larger room to your daughter if there is the possiblity that she will be sharing with another sibling in the future. (almost a given if you are using no birth control lol) point out to your son that he doesn't have all the girl stuff. and truthfully he will probably not even notice the difference in size. unless he brings it up I would probably not even mention it.

I vote that you are obsessing...lol. I Would put your older child in the bigger bedroom right now...your little one doesn't even NEED a room right now since she is still co-sleeping with you. When she is ready to move to her own room...move her to the smaller room...she is really too young to care much one way or another. If you do have another baby...I am assuming you may choose to co-sleep for a while so no decision needs to be made about who shares the room with the baby for a while.
I had 3 girls and enoug bedrooms for each of them to have their own...BUT the bedroom in the basement was definitely the "neatest"...since it was like a 2 room apartment down there...complete with a 3/4 bath!!! They swapped around every couple of years....first each had their own room...then 2 decided to share a room and the spare room became the toy room. After they got a little older...the rule was...if you move out....(college etc)...when you come back you get whatever room is vacant at the time...no fair coming in and rousting someone from their room.
Relax...it will al work out well!!

I would focus on the now rather than the late. I would give the older child the bigger room. By the time your daughter is older enough to even care, you should know if you are buying the house, and if you are adding more rooms. If you do not have another baby, your son will be 18 and moving out by the time your daughter is a teen and needing more space of her own. If things change, and you do have another, you can make changes than.

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Older child bigger room, that is how it works.

I think the older kid always gets the larger room, right?

In our home our daughter gets the bigger room because like your daughter, she too has more stuff. She also likes to play in her room and play by herself more than my son does. My son has not minded having the smaller room. We have a baby girl and when she is a bit older she will be sharing the bigger room with my daughter so it has worked out for us. Like others have commented, it isn't hard to change rooms in the future if needed.
Good luck with the move.

My suggestion is to ask your kids which one they want! My DS who is 6 preferred the smaller room over the larger one because it made him feel safer. And just a tip for the toys. My friends have an unfinished basement that they have put down all kinds of carpet remnants and put up all the toys down there. That way they are out of the bedrooms and living room and they can still play and have fun.

I would give your daughter the larger room, since when and if there is a new baby they are the most likely to share. Your son, being the oldest, will then have his own space.

Daughter in the B. room since she has more/bigger toys, son in the small room FOR NOW. If/when you get pregnant, you can reconsider and rearrange. Since you're not painting or doing any major decorating you can easily move stuff around in the future. It's always lots of fun to change rooms and rearrange!

My initial thought was to have the younger child closer to your room. But I like a previous poster's idea about letting him choose.

I find that my girls just have more "Stuff" and more clothes than my boy does. Big dollhouese, doll carriages, and cradles, they take up room! They even have 3 times as amny shoes. My boy does just fine in the smaller room.

I would normally say that the older child should get the bigger room, but seeing how it is closer to the master and that there may be another child to add to the mix soon your oldest should get the smaller of the two.