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What is the situation with bedrooms in your house? Are they all on one level? If they are not, who sleeps in another level and is that a basement, ground floor, etc? What kinds of problems/concerns does this make for you?
The reason I ask is that we are in a 3 bedroom split foyer. We are debating moving (still - it's been 7 years  but we're a lot more serious now) and finding affordable homes with 4 decent sized bedrooms all on one level has been difficult. We *really* want to be able to put two beds down on the floor instead of *having* to bunk (just safety issues in our minds...if we have the choice). We could stay here, and put a fourth bedroom on the lower level w/ no bathroom, but that seems to present it's own problems in this house (plus we'd have to bunk as all bedrooms are small and/or awkwardly designed).
So just curious how the bedroom situation works for all of you. Thanks for humoring me - I'd hate to make a huge moving decision and THEN realize I was crazy to buy a house with a basement bedroom (or whatever). 
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We have a 1 1/2 story home. Upstairs there are 2 bedroom, where the oldest 2 sleep. The ceilings are too short for bunks. Eventually each of the 2 rooms will have a full size bed and 2 girls. I will let the girls choose who will share a room. The twins sleep in a downstairs room (sharing a twin bed), they still wake up and need me sometimes, so this is easier because we are also on the main level.
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We have a split entry with 2 bdrms up and 2 down. Our room is upstairs along with son's room. DD's room is downstairs. They love having separate rooms during the day, but she sleeps in her brother's room most nights!
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We have lived in a variety of two-level homes, our current home having the master bedroom on the main floor and then 4 other bedrooms upstairs.
Advantages:
*when people come to visit, no one can see the kids' rooms and so they assume the house is clean 
*the children identify this as "their" space, and so assume a little more ownership and responsibility for it
*we don't always hear all the middle of the night noises, which is good when they are older, and not so good when they are younger
Disadvantages:
*returning laundry to rooms, cleaning, etc. all require multiple trips up and down the stairs (this is actually good if you are trying to squeeze in more exercise! )
*it's harder to keep an eye on playtime activities if they are playing upstairs
*I have always been concerned about the height of the upstairs windows, so we installed window guards.
*I'm not sure about this, but I think from comparing notes with friends it costs more to heat/cool our two-story home, and I know the temperature of the house is not very uniform. It can be really cold on the main floor and quite hot upstairs, even though we have two thermostat zones.
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stellamaris wrote:
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This is THE #1 reason I want a colonial. 
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We the two children's bedrooms upstairs. I like that we can close them up and no one can see the stuff. I don't like that I don't make it up there enough during daylight hours to see how much mess there is until later in the week.  I don't like hauling things (and sleepy kids at night) up and down the stairs. Now that I haven't been pregnant in a long time that isn't as big of a deal. We use bunk beds for our kids,but they do have big rooms.
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Our teens are in the basement. We just moved them down there this spring. Our basement is huge, and we were able to carve out 2 rooms while still leaving plenty of room for our other needs down there. We have 4 bedrooms upstairs, so now everyone is in their own room.
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I once vowed (although I've gone back on that before) to never again live in a two story home [main floor with master bedroom + kids usptairs] because:
1. It was always way hotter upstairs.
2. It was not easy hefting the squirmy 18 month old upstairs twice a day for bedtimes while being nine months pregnant.
3. Not sleeping well because I was always nervous something would happen to one of the kids upstairs that I couldn't hear downstairs.
4. My stepson slept above us and would rock himself to sleep in the middle of the night.
5. Upstairs bathroom overflow into dining area. 
6. Kids (and sometimes adults) falling down stairs.
7. Having to move furniture up and down stairs.
Okay. I'll stop. I'd forgotten how much I appreciate a (mostly) one level home.
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