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Master - which would you use?

Would you utilize the official master bedroom on the first floor of a house, or use a suite of rooms on the second floor which really is extra space, as your master? Option 1 puts the master next to the full bath and the two kids rooms on the first floor. Option 2 puts the kids on the first floor alone, and the extra room that was the master would then be a guest room/ extra space for kids stuff. (Kids are 1 and 4).

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Re: Master - which would you use?

  • With kids that age, I would want my bedroom to be on the same level as theirs. Me + navigating stairs in a rush in the middle of the night to get to a puking child = disaster waiting to happen.
  • Personally, we wanted all our our bedrooms upstairs. We wanted the family living area on the ground floor and then the kids upstairs at night.
  • I'm a put all the bedrooms on one floor kind of person.  I've seen a few houses with the master on the first floor and additional bedrooms upstairs.  I just don't get the concept.  Why wouldn't you have all of the bedrooms on the second floor if it is a two story house.  Why would you want a bedroom taking up living space on the first floor.  I'd be apt to make it a den/guest room.

     

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  • It's a brick Cape Cod built in the 1950's - that's just how they built houses then.
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  • I would put everyone on one floor for now and then when the kids get older, either move yourself or the kids upstairs.
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  • Parents with kids.

    Sickness, bad dreams, emergencies, storms, fires, intruders...that's my short list for wanting to be close by them.

  • I would put the kids rooms on the second floor at least when they get older and keep the Master bedroom on the first floor that way you can monitor if they go in or out late at night easier.  Your children are a little too young, but in about 8 to 10 years this could be a problem.
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