Semi-detached house with rather small children's rooms

So, I also think that 2 children in one room is not a good solution!

I like the ground floor. We have another appointment with the architect next Thursday. I will definitely post his result here again!

My husband grew up sharing a room with his brother. I'm just wondering if it harmed him...

Maybe not your husband, but possibly your children, because they have to do without a properly sized private space, since "it all used to be like that." But they surely only play in the living room and spend the whole day outside, and that will remain the case during their teenage years.

Well, I also think that 2 kids in one room is not a good solution!

No, I probably wouldn't do that either, unless I only had 1 child in the next life. The upper floor would rather be like in #18 if I had to decide.

I like the ground floor. We have another appointment with the architect next Thursday. I will definitely post his results here again!

Cool - let's see what he squeezes out of the small floor plan.

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Two children in a big room is quite an unnecessary compromise in my eyes.

A solomonic question to both children: which one of you wants to be shot so that the other has more space? – seriously: before the demographic dip there were no such discussions. This is a philosophical luxury problem of one- to two-child families. My school days are now long enough ago to evaluate the outcome: the comrades with shared rooms have gotten just as far in life as those with single rooms. None of them ended up in the loony bin. But I agree: removing the wall between the children's rooms would not have occurred to me as a therapeutic approach for the floor plan.

I would always build a room for each child if I have the possibility. If then two prefer to live together in one, they are welcome to do so. The free room can then be a playroom.

I no longer find it appropriate to impose a shared room on children in our culture in new buildings without compelling reason. "In the past people used to" and "it didn't harm us" have never been good advisors. People used to live in caves and died in their mid-thirties...

I also don't think a shared room harms if it can't be solved otherwise. But in a new building, where so much money is spent anyway, I wouldn't "save" on a partition wall and an additional door.