FI and I are going to officially live together! Now how to organize the house?
I bought my 3 bedroom house before FI and I met, and since the beginning I have had a tenant/roommate who has the "master bedroom." (Only bigger by maybe 15 square feet... And at the front of the house.) My room is across the hall from his, with my office/guest room next to it, at the back of the house because I liked the southern exposure and didn't want to share a wall with him at all.
FI has had his own apartment, and the lease ends in December. Since we got engaged rather quickly, I didn't want to toss roomie out, so I told him he could stay until we got married in June.
Well roomie just decided to move down south next month, so FI can move in "properly"!! I'M SO EXCITED (though the money would have been nice!)!!!!!!
So now the question is how to reorganize the bedrooms. We just redid the basement so FI can have his man cave and we have a workout space, since we were planning on roomie staying. Roomie offered to leave his bed and desk, but I'm not so sure we need a queen size guest room... I have a twin guest bed with a trundle in my office, and we really don't have company much, nor do I want it. I guess it might be nice if his parents could stay here.
What I'm kind of thinking is to have a "sleeping only" room in the master, and move just the king bed in there, that way I can get to my dressers and closet while FI sleeps during the day. FI wants to "share" an office, but since I work at home I think it would be distracting, and don't want to leave the smallest bedroom (which is also the warmest in the winter).
How many rooms do you all have and what are their "purposes"? Should I take the queen mattress just in case? (There's no frame and I've never had one and have zero bedding for it, though he may leave some.) 
Re: FI and I are going to officially live together! Now how to organize the house?
We have 4 bedrooms and a library that could be a bedroom. Right now its set up as master, guest, guest, office and library. The guest rooms only get used a few times a year, but we have a queen in each. Plus the sectional in the library that turns into a queen. We have a lot of parties where people should not drive home, so we try to make it as easy and comfortable as possible for them to stay and drive when its safe.
We have 3 bedrooms. Our master is on one end, with the other two on the other end (ranch style house). For the other 2, one is a guest room, and one is an office. The guest room has a queen bed with matching nightstands and a dresser. We don't have tons of guests, but the ones we do have seem to like it. We ditched cable, but we leave a TV and DVD player in there, with a huge DVD collection in the office.
Our basement is finished and has furniture, but we never use it for anything but storage. There is an unfinished area that's stubbed for a bathroom, so when kids come along, we may convert part of it to an in-law suite/studio apartment type thing and the other part to an office.
We live in a 2 bedroom apartment. When we get a house I would love to have a room be an office, one as a library, one room for V's guitars, and some for our room and maybe a guest room. We hardly ever get guests now so I don't know if we would even need a guest room change. I realize that is a lot of rooms so most likely combine the office and library together. Plus I don't know if we will ever have kids so theres that. But that's a dream situation.
But right now we have one bedroom as our bedroom and the other bedroom is a guest/ guitar/ storage room ha. We have a combination of an office/living room right now too.
Darn, I just realized the major caveat to my plan of sleeping in the front room - I let my dogs out front too and one is a major barker! It's hard enough to keep them quiet in the house when FI sleeps! Letting them out the back isn't an option either because of the slope.
@southernbelle0915 - I don't anticipate his parents would stay very long, they only live 3 hrs away. I work on my laptop from the couch probably 25% of the time anyway, so giving up the office wouldn't be a big deal. I'm sure it would be awkward to ask them to sleep on the twin trundle though. The only person who has ever stayed over was my BFF, who also has family in town. (ETA: His parents have only come to our town twice in the 2 years he has lived here, and have never stayed over)
HOWEVER, the twin staying in my office feels like a non-negotiable for me, because I adore the mattress, and honestly I sleep there probably 50% of the nights FI works during the winter. For this reason, I can't fit any dressers or anything else in my office.
@lurkergirl, Thanks! I don't really intend to use our basement much either, but FI doesn't seem to mind the cold down there!
@buttercup1958 - Good point about a "library." I have a ton of books that I am currently trying to get back from my ex, but I also feel like maybe I'm past the point of having to have them out. In an old apartment, I had a library/dining room (never once sat at that table!), but thinking back to that makes me remember how cluttered I feel with bookshelves around! It would almost make sense to have the shelves in the sleeping room, but I don't really want to look at them!
@lolo883, OMG the dogs take up so much space!! They are each 50 lbs, and have giant beds both in our bedroom and my office. They are EACH at least 2.5 ft by 3 ft.! They used to have a third set in the living room until one chewed them up and I said fine then lay on the floor. Like I said above, I don't want to get rid of the twin (it's also a day bed so it can function as a sofa), so I unfortunately can't fit anything else in my current office.
As it is now, I have to "pack a bag" with my day time clothes before FI goes to bed, so I don't think I would mind packing up some stuff to have a guest.
FI's "desk" in the basement is actually a painting table for his miniatures/games. I think he wants a second one upstairs to pay bills from his laptop, but that seems like a huge waste of space to me since we have my desk (I also only have a laptop), his painting table, a kitchen table, and a dining table! And he uses his computer at most once a week!
@WinstonsGirl - Your hedgie had his own room! How adorable! I think my house would be too big for a normal "family of two" but I have zero problem filling it up... which is why I need roomie to leave to have space for FI!
@AddieCake - Do you guys share your office? I know you must work from home a bunch too?
@LadyMillil - My opinion is definitely that he does not need an "office" beyond his basement painting station (which until we finished the basement a couple weeks ago, he painted at the dining room table and kept his supplies in the office closet). He is a field service engineer, so all of his job is working on the machines; nothing to bring home, except for filling out his timesheet once a week. I've never known him to be a person to be internetting for hours like me either!
It sounds in general like having an adult size bed would be a decent addition to the house. How many dressers / closets do you all have? I have oh gosh a full closet in my bedroom, one in the hallway, and some clothes in my office closet (but that's mostly empty). I have one tall dresser and one long dresser of which I have managed to clear 4 drawers for FI. I have tons of storage in the attic though so I don't need everything out.
And yet I never have anything to wear!
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Is it weird that I want to see a picture of his room?
We *will* have a 1921 sq ft 3 bedroom 2.5 bath house. The master has two closets so we will have our own space in there, plus a large triple dresser that we share - 4 drawers each. One bedroom is the guest room with a queen size bed, and the other is an office and will eventually be a baby room. The desk can be moved out onto the landing later.
I guess I was thinking of it more as having two guest rooms or two offices was silly for my situation, but if I stop counting my office as a guest room, it makes perfect sense! haha
I sleep in that twin waaaay more than anyone else ever has!
Whether or not we will put the king in the "master" I guess is still up for debate.