# Do most kids have their own rooms? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 18, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630 "2012-07-18T15:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630/61 "2012-07-19T19:34:37Z")
My brother was an only for a long time, so he had his own bedroom, but then I came around so they walled off an empty chunk of the basement that was just storage/play/etc. I fought hard for a half bath to get installed in the basement, especially since there was enough room around the existing plumbing down there, but it never happened. > [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](#): > > I was an only child that grew up in a two bedroom house, never shared a bedroom. At nearly 40 I still have a ‘thing’ about having my my own space. I’ve wondered if the two things are related. I think so. I never would have been able to do the dorm thing. My brother was out of the house before I hit double digits, so I had the whole basement to myself, plus it was a farm so I had everywhere outside. I could save a couple hundred bucks a month if I got a roomie, but I’d go nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Silvorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Silvorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silvorange)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630/62 "2012-07-19T21:16:16Z")
I am the second of four girls. We shared one bedroom and two beds in a two bedroom, one bathroom house. We would switch off sleeping partners, and often slept three in a twin bed. When the little ones were still little, we could also fit three in the bathtub. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630/63 "2012-07-19T21:18:28Z")
My brother and I shared a room, and my parents had a guest room and an office they never used. I resented it. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630/64 "2012-07-19T21:31:11Z")
I was one of three, and we grew up in an old house that our great-grandfather had built. I shared a room with my sister for a few years, and then my parents converted the formal living room into a room for me. My new bedroom had gold carpet and a crystal chandelier, and the curtained french doors behind my bed looked into the dining room, but it was all mine! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630/65 "2012-07-19T21:44:23Z")
I didn’t have my own room (last of 4 kids), shared with my brother, but my only daughter has had her own room since she was a baby. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630/66 "2012-07-19T21:50:45Z")
My mom’s sister had 4 kids in one bedroom. 2 girls in one bed and 2 boys in a different one. I think the house was about 900 sq ft with one hall bathroom. It wasn’t a problem because the 4 kids were only a year or so apart in ages. The boys started sleeping on a hide-a-bed in the living room as teenagers, but they continued using the bedroom to keep their clothes and stuff. I had my own bedroom. I guess it’s more common these days with bigger houses. 900 to 1400 sq ft was very common when I grew up. Isn’t about 2000 sq ft average today for new home construction? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630/67 "2012-07-19T23:56:13Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > In English? No it’s not. Yeah, don’t think we’re particularly feminist or anything, but “nephews,” “brothers,” “sons,” “husbands,” etc. never includes the female counterparts, or at least I’ve never heard it that way. Siblings, cousins, in-laws, spouses, yes. “Nephews and nieces” is what you’d hear. ETA: or more likely “nieces and nephews,” since we’re so damned chivalrous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-kids-have-their-own-rooms/628630.md?page=3)