Where do your hamsters live?

[flowerfairy]

My four set ups are in the bedroom. Quadraphonic sound of karlie wooden wheels at night time!

Its warmer upstairs and the dogs dont come up here so altogether more hamster safe.

Multi duna maxi on a chest of drawers opposite my bed (Woodstock white fluffy syrian)
Barney cage on a coffee table next to the bed (Gopal chocolate fluffy syrian)
Alaska cage on a small table to the left of the bed (Fairy roborovski girl)
Grosvesor large rat/hamster cage on a storage box very close to the bed on the left (Flower roborovski girl).

I love being in my bedroom with them all!

[Mrs Livingston]

Miss. Madison is in the dining room on top of a sideboard. It's a room we use to get from A to B (and the room we eat in, obvs), but it's quieter and darker than the lounge. When she's awake though we move her into the lounge with us. X

[Bertiebobbins]

Mine are in the living room aswell, I shifted things around to fits their barney cages in. They live one either side of the room so they won't be in direct sunlight in the summer but are moderately close to the radiator in the winter (not so close they would overheat, and I have thermometers up to monitor the temperature). One is tucked in a darker by the sofa and he likes to hang out next to whoever is sitting there, the other is more "on display" as he likes to know what's going on aalllllll he time.

[Pebbles82]

Charlie is in the living room underneath a window - it's a kind of bay window and the cage is quite a long way underneath it, on the floor (I think it's ok to put a cage on the floor, but the duna multy is probably better on a shelf/unit as you say).

The window position sounds fine if the cage is lower than the window itself and it's not draughty. The main problem with windows is if the cage is on a level with it which could be too bright and hot when the sun is out.

Another thing is making sure they aren't too close to the television. If that corner spot doesn't work well you could always have the dining room as a second option.

As for moving her cage contents over, it might be better to have her out of the cage while you do this. If you have a pet carrier that would be an ideal place to pop her while you do it (ours goes to sleep in his pet carrier if I put a blanket over the top. If you don't have something to put her in, then you could put the new substrate in the duna multy and pop her in there to play while you take the stuff out of the old cage. Then pop her back in the old cage (even though all the substrate is out of it) while you put the old substrate on top of the new and set up the duna multy, then move her across. It'll be a bit unsettling, but not for long and when she goes into the duna multy it'll have her familiar bedding and toys in. The only thing with putting her back in the old cage while you set up the duna multy is it might be an idea to take all the levels and ladders out and put her house on the base, so she doesn't fall and hurt herself with no substrate in there.

Your old cage could be useful as a play cage for when you do a cage clean on the duna, although really, full cage cleans don't need to be done very often if you have enough substrate and spot clean and she starts using a potty.

[Fluffagrams]

I've never had hamsters in my bedroom, even when I had them as a teenager. I remember wanting them in my room at one point but my parents were concerned about them keeping me awake so they lived in a spare room for a bit although when we had guests we'd have to move them.
I contemplated making my study into a hamster room but it gets quite cold in there during the winter and the sun is quite bright in the summer so my two live in a corner of the dining room. Their bin cages are stacked on top of one another on a coffee table that I'd bought for that purpose.

[redadmiral]

I have 2 hamsters and they live in the front room, where I can see them of an evening!