Brainstorming / Exchange on the house for the "Weekend Patchwork" family

Hi, the "Bett Raumtrenner" is something. The problem is just: As long as they are small, great, but at some point, not always both kids come at the same time, but each with their own partner. And then the beds are too small . . . Olli

... more likely they generally do not get to sleep regularly anymore. And much later with a partner: not as a sleep guest due to a regulated calendar and not together. A double bed can eventually be taken apart again.

As a student, I had a design where two single mattresses were sewn together. So that you could stack them on top of each other when you only needed one bed and unfold them when you needed two sleeping places. During the day, it proved to be a lounge sofa. The design served well for many years and I would do it the same way again today if I had the need.

or completely. Wouldn't the first ones be the ones who move from the mother to the father during their T-rodent phase.

I just find a sleeping option in the guest-work-iron-gamer room too little. I have already seen solutions where a room was separated by floor-to-ceiling cabinets. That offers flexibility. Now, later, alone, with a partner, weekly not at all.

Yes. It is really an exciting topic. We tend towards a solution with a room that is somehow divided. Such a bed, for example, can also be a "real wall." In the end, a cupboard that can be used from two sides or something like that. Then we have a flexible room available later.

I would also build two fully functional but smaller rooms. Plan the electrical system and so on from the start in a way that they can easily be combined again later. A lightweight partition wall in between, and that's that. Everyone has their own room, no one is disadvantaged, and the children at that age will surely understand that it doesn't have to be a huge empire for 2 days every 2 weeks. I would also talk to the children about it beforehand and consider their wishes. They are your children just like the youngest one, I would be careful and make sure they don't feel like second-class children in your household. That's why: participation!