It seems like a slow day, so let's talk guest rooms.
Scott really wants us to have a formal guest room. Nice bed, dressers, empty closet, etc. Personally I don't want to spend the money on one (we would have to furnish a bedroom from scratch) or give up one of our rooms for the maybe once a year that it is used. We currently have the rooms assigned as a nursery, sewing/chinchilla room, and our own bedroom.
I am thinking of designing the nursery to be used as a guest bedroom if necessary, and we currently have a futon in there that does double time as a couch or full size bed. I slept on the bed for over 10 years, so I think it's fine as a bed if I add my mattress pad to make it a little squishier. If we turn it into a formal bedroom (bed, dresser, spare closet, etc) then we would have to relocate the chinchilla, all of my sewing stuff, and (at least in my mind) devote a room to "looking pretty".
We also have a couch downstairs that pulls out into a full sized bed. There are doors which close off the upstairs from the downstairs, so a guest would also have privacy if they slept downstairs. We would just tell them to open the doors when they were ready for the day and we would stay upstairs otherwise. There is a bathroom downstairs.
So...give me your opinions. Is it worth spending a couple grand to make a formal guest room that will be used once a year, if that, or as a guest would you be ok with a futon/couch bed in a private portion of the house?
Re: Tell me about your guest room - long
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I don't have a guest room now, but we'll probably have 2 when we get a new house. One will have a queen bed, and I'll put twin beds in the other. I'm going to search out Craigslist for the twin sets and some furniture I like, paint it all white, and put it in the spare room. The queen set I already have.
I'd say wait until you have a need to replace your current bedroom set (although, did you JUST buy it?), and then make your old set the set for the spare room.
But the futon setup is fine, especially since you don't have guests all that often!
So guests rooms can come in handy.
I wouldn't spend the money on bedroom furniture, though. What you have now should suffice. And if y'all decide to get a new bedroom set for yourselves down the road, you can always use the old stuff for guests.
[QUOTE]We actually have two guest rooms upstairs, with a full bath. My DH bought this house a few years before I moved in. So at first glance, its <strong>a rather large house for just the 2 of us</strong>. But in a few weeks we'll actually have so many people here that we'll be on the floor, on a blow up mattress. So guests rooms can come in handy.
Posted by kd.joseph[/QUOTE]
Yeah we get that comment all the time. But the market was to good to not buy. I think we might also make one more guest room/workout room.
2011-2012 Races
10/29/11 LA RockNRoll Min Half (5K) 42:58
12/4/11 Vegas RockNRoll Half 3:14:53
1/7/12 WDW Half 3:13:42
1/15/12 RnR AZ 2:55:27 (PR!!)
1/29/12 Tinkerbell 1/2 3:22:37 (To many picture stops!lol)
Me:32 DH:33
IFV w/ DE Only Option (On Hold For Now)
We've had the bedroom set for about 5 years now, but aren't looking at replacing it anytime soon though. That is something I could bring up to Scott though. Maybe we wont' have his dream room now, but in a few years who knows what could happen.
Sarah, that is part of my thought process I'll admit. When we bought our house bil goes "Oh great, now mom can live with you guys". Um no. I'm terrified that if we have a nice set up she'll go "Oh I'm going to stay with you guys for the next week, month, year". I love her, really I do, but I'm really enjoying living an hour away from his family for a change. That and there's a big difference between their situation ( mil lives in her own house with it's own kitchen, bathroom, living room, phone line, etc which is connected via a hallway) verses her moving into our house where we would be sharing everything.
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One of the things I really want when FI and I start the house hunt is a seperate in-law apartment for exactly that reason. If no one needs it, we can rent it to one of our many friends who are always on the hunt for a pad, or I can make it a studio.
And we used most of our old stuff to furnish both rooms. I have bought a few new things recently, sheets, comforters,pillows. But we aren't going overboard, when we buy our new bedroom suite, we are moving the old one upstairs.
But I'm with you, don't let people get to comfortable, they may want to stay.
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If you don't have lots of guests, then I think it's unnecessary. Then again, we never have guests and I wouldnt spend a ton on making a room 'pretty'. Our only extra bedroom is for FI's kid when she comes on the weekends so I dont get to worry about such things!
Sheets, some pillows, and the mattress you used should be fine i would think.
when I stay at someone's house for a weekend and they have a dresser (especially one with a mirror) in the guest room, I use the top of it to hold my purse and my makeup bag and hair dryer and stuff like that. I get ready there instead of the bathroom.
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So, the guest room is also my office and our exercise room. We have a bed in there, a dresser, desk, and exercise machine. I don't see the point in a formal guest room. There is bathroom right across the hall from the guest room and our room is on the other end of the house, so there is plenty of privacy. We also have a pull-out couch in the living room. But we rarely have guests anyway, so it would be a waste of money.
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[QUOTE]See that's the thing, in the 3 years we've lived together we have never once had someone stay the night. So I find it hard to give up precious living space for a guest room. Holy windstorm! Goodbye trees :(
<p>Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]</p><p> </p><p>Lol, if you haven't had one guest in three years, I am finding it difficult to believe that you need a hotel-equipped guestroom!</p>
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Tell me about your guest room - long : Lol, if you haven't had one guest in three years, I am finding it difficult to believe that you need a hotel-equipped guestroom!
Posted by thesuninherhead[/QUOTE]
Exactly!
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If there some way the sewing room could fully double as a guest room?
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