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Aménager une chambre partagée entre frères et sœurs : deux enfants, une seule pièce – et toujours assez d’espace
Children Need Space to Play
A children’s room is much more than just a place to sleep. It is where children build, draw, read, run around and invent something new every day.
Especially for younger children, free play is an important part of their development. While building, drawing, doing puzzles or playing with figures, they naturally develop creativity, motor skills, concentration and the ability to occupy themselves independently.
That is why free floor space in a children’s room is so valuable. A rug for building, a small den for hiding or a cosy reading corner does not require much – but it does require space.
Screens are also part of everyday family life today. And of course there are moments when a phone or tablet gives parents a short break. That is not the point. What matters much more is that children have attractive alternatives available in everyday life: toys, books and, above all, a place where they can start playing immediately.
Because a children’s room should not be planned according to how much furniture can fit inside – but according to how much space remains for the child to play and explore.
Planning Storage in the Children’s Room Properly
Designing a Shared Sibling Room: Living Together, Growing Together
A shared children’s room can be much more for siblings than simply a room with two sleeping places. It is where they play together, talk, laugh and sometimes argue. Shared routines and many small everyday experiences are created there and help connect children with one another.
Younger siblings in particular can benefit from spending a lot of time together. They learn to be considerate, share, compromise and respect each other’s boundaries. At the same time, spending time together can strengthen closeness and connection.
Nevertheless, each child also needs something of their own in a shared room: a fixed sleeping place, personal belongings and opportunities to retreat.
This is where the challenge of designing a shared sibling room begins:
- Two children need two separate sleeping places.
- Both need space for their personal belongings.
- There should be opportunities to retreat.
- And as much free space as possible should remain for playing together.
Two traditional beds placed side by side may solve the first problem – but they permanently take up a large part of the available floor space.
That is why, especially in a shared sibling room, it is worth thinking not only in square metres, but also in levels.
Two children need two separate sleeping places – but not twice as much space.
By using the room cleverly, you create space for sleeping, playing and growing up together.
Creating Two Sleeping Places Without Losing Play Space
Two children need two separate sleeping places. But that does not automatically mean that two traditional beds have to permanently take up a large part of the children’s room.
With the IKEA KURA bed, the existing space underneath can be used. NestUp Base creates a second, clearly defined sleeping area there, while valuable floor space elsewhere in the room remains free for playing.
This is a major advantage in a shared sibling room: instead of filling the room with additional furniture, you use space that is already occupied by the bed anyway.
However, with a sleeping place close to the floor, there is another important point to consider: air circulation underneath the mattress.
During the night, the body releases moisture. If a mattress lies directly on the floor, air can circulate underneath only to a limited extent. That is why the mattress on NestUp Base rests on a slatted base with a 2 cm gap above the floor.
This allows air to circulate beneath the mattress and moisture to escape more easily. It supports a more comfortable sleeping climate and can help prevent moisture from building up permanently underneath the mattress.
This means the space under the IKEA KURA bed serves several purposes at once:
- A separate sleeping place for the second child
- A slatted base instead of a mattress directly on the floor
- Air circulation underneath the mattress
- More free floor space for playing
This creates two separate sleeping places without taking away the children’s room’s most valuable free space.
Foire aux questions
How do you design a shared sibling room to save space?
Use existing areas for more than one purpose wherever possible. The space under a loft bed, for example, can provide a second sleeping place without taking up additional floor space in the room.
Do siblings sharing a children’s room need separate sleeping places?
Yes. Even when children share a room, each child should have a fixed sleeping place of their own. Shared play areas, on the other hand, can be used by both children.
Why shouldn’t a mattress lie directly on the floor?
Air cannot circulate as well underneath a mattress that lies directly on the floor. A slatted base creates distance from the floor and allows better ventilation from underneath.
How can you create more play space despite having two sleeping places?
Instead of placing two beds side by side, the existing room can be used on different levels. With the IKEA KURA bed, for example, the space underneath can be used as an additional sleeping area.
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Good to Know
A shared sibling room does not have to become larger to give children more space.
What matters is how the available space is used.
By planning sleeping places on different levels, valuable floor space can remain free – for playing together, creativity and movement.
Because two children need two good sleeping places.
But they also need space to be children.
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Zone de couchage inférieure NestUp Base pour lit IKEA KURA
An additional sleeping place without losing valuable play space.
