Multiple iCloud accounts / iOS 8 iPhone cellular / Coherence

Hello,
My partner and I share a photo library, a music library, and a keychain. In iOS 7, we would just sign into the same iCloud account, and then for FaceTime and iMessage sign into a different account, each respective account associated with our own iPhone mobile number.
It seems this strategy doesn't work in iOS 8 -- to use iPhone cellular or Coherence, you have to be signed into the same account.
Associating the accounts mentioned above under a family account doesn't help.
If each of us signs into our own iCloud account, we will have different Photo Streams which for now means our pictures can't both end up in the same iPhoto library, and, down the line, we will need iCloud Photo Libraries (probably 500 gigs worth), with no good way to sync them across accounts. We would also lose shared keychain. We could keep the same music library because of the family account.
Is there any way to work around this? Ideally, we would sign into our own iCloud accounts but for Drive, Photo Stream/Photo Library, and Keychain, be able to connect that feature with another library. Or at least have a way to share the whole library between accounts, not just the single Family Album.
Thanks!

EDIT:  It seems this strategy doesn't work in iOS 8 -- to use iPhone cellular or Coherence, you have to be signed into the same account in FaceTime as the main iCloud account.

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