<p>We have the opposite, both boys have small bedrooms and the guest room is larger with a double bed. My older son came home from school freshman year insisting he could no longer sleep in his tiny twin bed so he sleeps in the spare bedroom and uses his old room as a dressing/storage room so both rooms are a big mess. Fortunately, the younger son who is a freshman still seems to fit just fine in his old bed because we have no more rooms. He is several inches shorter than his brother though.</p>
<p>Yes, D2 moved into D1’s room as soon as she moved out for college. D1 is only home briefly at Thanksgiving, a few weeks at Christmas, and was only home the first summer after freshman year. It would be unreasonable to expect D2 to stay in a tiny room with a much bigger one empty. Now, when S leaves next fall, I will have an exercise room where he is.</p>
<p>I asked ds2 if he wanted ds1’s room when ds1 left, just to see what he said. Thankfully, he said no. Ds1’s room is bigger, but ds2’s room has a large window with a window seat, just more personality. Ds1, dh and I worked on his room before he left this summer, and it looked so nice that ds2 said he changed his mind. I said, Too late! 
Part of the problem is that he wanted his twin bed to move with him, and I didn’t want to switch his twin with ds1’s full-size bed.</p>
<p>I had told ds1 my plans for his room – basically leave it as is but get rid of the desk he never used and add a bookshelf so we can put all the books scattered around the house in one place. Because he took some posters with him to school, we were able to declutter the walls a bit. And the closet is much more organized. Ds’s college is on a trimester system so when he’s home, he’s home for a long time (six weeks from before T’giving to post New Year’s). This break, he had a full-time job for more than a month. For now, I think he really still needs his own space, though I will continue to tinker with it. EX: “Mom, what’s this printer doing on my dresser?” ;)</p>
<p>I have recently moved home after graduating from college. I have re-acquired my bedroom as my grandpa has moved into assisted living. Unfortunately I still do not really have a room because it is full of stuff. When my parents sold my grandpa’s house, several pieces of furniture were brought home and are sitting in my room. This is in addition to all of my furniture and clothes, etc. </p>
<p>I’ve been home two weeks and still have not taken my microwave out of my truck. I have nowhere to go with it! I’m already looking forward to moving out to go to grad school hopefully in June…</p>
<p>We have a two bedroom house- but added a little room in the basement for D1. D2 was not as interested in it, as when D1 was there. ;)</p>
<p>When S was in college but coming home for summers & Christmas break, we didin’t do too much to change the bedroom (tho when D was home, she would take over both rooms & spread her possessions throughout & sleep in whichever one she felt like). Last summer, he was only home for 10 days. He’s now been home since August, waiting for his security clearance and helping us declutter the house.</p>
<p>D may stay in LA this summer & after she graduates because she’s not sure there is much of a job market (definitely fewer opportunities in her major in HI). We’re all trying to figure out at as famiy how to re-configure the house and are still mulling it all over. S wants me to make one of the bedrooms into an office and have the other be a guest bedroom. His room has worked well as a guest bedroom–it has a futon that converts to a double-bed as well as a large TV & phone and small desk. D’s room has a small twin bed, a miniscule desk & a phone.</p>
<p>S wants to help with the reorganizing before he leaves for his job, because he feels if he doesn’t help with it, it simply won’t happen (he’s probably right–inertia rules around here–we’re not into much remodeling or rearranging).</p>
<p>Will try to mull faster. I actually like taking over most of the house as my office, but S & everyone doesn’t feel that’s a very reasonable approach. Does make entertaining pretty impossible with my junk scattered everywhere. :(</p>
<p>When D1 left for college S2 (who had always shared a very small room with S3) moved into her room. When she came home for her first winter break we put her in the family room with the pullout coach. That didn’t work out so well because she had a mess spread throughout the house and didn’t allow the boys to play their video games in the family room. So when she came back for the summer she moved into S3’s room and S3 gladly moved into the family room while she was home. When S2 left this year we redecorated the room to be more of a neutral guest room. If either D1 or S2 is home they stay there. If both are home S2 stays in family room. D1 is on the semester system and S2 is on the quarter system so it works out pretty well. S3 wanted to have both rooms, but I love having one clean room so I said no.</p>
<p>Response to Post #30</p>
<p>Excuse me?? I suggest you think before you post instead of accusing us college students of being selfish. Just because one sibling is older does not always mean that they get a bigger room. Although I don’t know kristin5792 (post #28) and I don’t know whether she has the bigger room or not, here is my story. My sister, now a junior in high school, has two rooms while I only have one (she uses her “second room” mainly for makeups and other purposes). It is unfair how my mom let my sister turn my room into her “third room”! Also, my sister still sleeps in her own bed from what I hear. Whenever I am home from college during breaks I see that my sister spends a lot of time in my room these days mostly going on her computer and stuff. It really bothers me when she is on her computer in my room after midnight because I can’t sleep at night! Plus, she even refuses to leave my room too and talks back at me by saying things like “well you’re not even asleep!” (when I am actually in a process of trying to go to sleep). Gosh, can’t I ever get space when I am home during breaks!?!?! </p>
<p>Oh yes, hopefully my sister won’t go into my room tonight because I have to sleep early because tomorrow morning I have to catch a 7 AM flight out of Newark Liberty International Airport (I live in NJ) to go on a ski trip to Jackson Hole, WY (with a layover in Salt Lake City)</p>
<p>Who’s paying for your ski trip?</p>
<p>I am fortunate to have my parents pay for my ski trip. I am going with my college’s ski and snowboard club. But we had to arrange our own transportation since we are all over the place! Due to the funding from my school, the cost of the ski trip (excluding airfare but including the stay at Snow King Resort, four day lift ticket, airport shuttle) was low.</p>