Our house is small. About 1200 square feet. We love it and have made it our own, but with the upcoming addition of another baby in March, it's beginning to feel smaller.
Our house has two small kid bedrooms on the main floor, and soon we will have three kids. The plan is for Sophia, who will be 5 when the baby is born, and Cassidy, who will be 27 months, to share Sophia's current room. The baby will acquire Cassidy's. Sophia likes the idea of sharing her room, and with some rearranging it will just barely fit two junior beds. We'll have to put the bookshelf in another room (baby's room?). I'm annoyed about that. I want the books in the big girls' room. But it's really the only feasible solution. We thought about bunk beds for two seconds and then the vision of daredevil Cassidy swinging from the rafters of the top bunk slapped us back into reality.
Into our house, small house that it is, we will welcome another wee one. I think we can make it work. We'll be ever so cozy.
Congratulations! How exciting for you and your family. As for the house, bunk beds? A few of the moms in my moms club said that's definitely an item they could live without.