Options for bedrooms?

This isn't too much of a concern just yet, but I'm just looking for some
opinions on our options that will be a concern in a few months...

Right now, we're maxed out with the bedrooms in the house. We also rent,
and we're not looking to move just yet. We have, so far, each child in
their own room, then we have the master bedroom. DD (11 months) has the
smallest room. DS (5) has the middle sized room. We have the biggest room.

We're now wondering where on earth we're going to put this next baby. To
start off, we plan to put her in a basinette in our room beside our bed.
That will hold off a couple months, anyways. We've then decided that the
only option, and obviously smartest thing to do, is put the girls together
in the same room. Makes a lot more sense than to put a girl with a boy. DD
and the baby will be 15 months apart in age, so they're close enough in age,
and of the same sex.

I was thinking that there's a good chance DD, at 15 months, will still be in
her crib. By 17-18 months, when this next baby is 2 or 3 months old,
there's still a good chance DD will be in her crib, but if not, her crib is
one that converts into a toddler bed. We do have a second crib, but even
with my wild imagination, I cannot think of any way that 2 babies will fit
in DD's current room. Our room is pretty big - but... We have a king sized
bed, 2 dressers and a TV on a stand in our room, with 1 bed side table. I
have my hope chest shoved into our closet. There's no way a crib will fit
in our room, and to be hoenst, I'm not at all interested in co-sleeping (had
issues with it with DS and just don't care to have baby room with us for
long) I can part with the TV in our room. I don't think DH and I can
manage with one or no dressers.

The only option we can think of as far as making this work is for us to
switch rooms with DD. DH and I would take the smallest bedroom, put DD and
this baby in the biggest room. Haven't measured yet, but I really don't
think our bed will fit in DD's room! Going out and buying a new bed really
isn't an option - it could be fairly costly, and our bed is in fine shape
and not that old, and the mattress we paid an arm and a leg for under 2
years ago. DH says our bed would fit (tight fit) in DD's room. Dressers,
he's not sure of. I do not want to have a home where there's dressers all
in hallways or in rooms that they don't really belong in (like keep one or
both dressers in what would be the babies' room. The closet in DD's room is
also a single closet, and it is fairly small. I thought maybe invest in a
wardrobe closet maybe for DH, use the closet for myself and look at finding
a smaller dresser for me that could fit in the small closet - I can easily
part with our current dressers, assuming we had something else for clothes.

So, basically, my question is... What do you think about this situation?
Switch rooms with the baby and put 2 babies in the big room or try and shove
2 cribs, change table, dressers, basically 2 babies in the smallest bedroom?
It would be a pain to change rooms, but probably less of a pain than having
absolutely no room for another baby. DS is NOT old enough that we'd trust
him to have a room in the basement, and I think renovating and making a room
in the basement would be the biggest pain ever.

Any ideas? Suggestions?


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