To get rid of the play room

[Sequinsglitter]

And turn it into a spare room? Right now our two youngest share the bedroom next to ours but we plan to move them to the current spare bedroom and the bedroom next to ours will become the baby we're expecting's room eventually. The problem is we often have guests and so i think we might as well turn the playroom into the spare room. The perfect opportunity to get rid of the many toys they don't use, get some containers and boxes and keep them in the bedrooms. DH thinks it will only make the living room become the new toy room and make the living room and bedrooms more of a mess or they'll play seperately rather than together

Can’t you put a sofa bed in there with the toys?

I can’t imagine prioritising guests over people that actually live in the house.

I was thinking of something similar, still being allowed to go in there and playing, perhaps having a sofa bed but just bringing their toys in rather than keeping all the toys in there. We have family stay at christmas and during the summer for quite a few weeks so it would be easier still having an offical guestroom for them

We have a day bed with storage drawers underneath in our play room. It is the IKEA one that pulls out into a king size bed (if you can push all the toys out the way).

Works well. I have put a throw and cushions on it for use as a sort of sofa for reading etc when we don’t have guests and it works well! Generally granny doesn’t mind sharing her room with the toys and the kids at 6am when they come in to play...

www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/beds/guest-beds-day-beds/hemnes-day-bed-frame-with-3-drawers-white-art-90349326/

This is the one we have!

I agree with your dh, the toys will just end up all over the house. If I had a room I could contain all the toys in i would be a happy woman.
I certainly wouldn't be prioritising the occasional guest over the children.

Our playroom is also the guest room. When guests come, we move the PS4 out (I have tweens and a 6 year old) and, well, they just don’t play with the toys in there for a couple days. Works really well and no guests have ever complained.

We are just going through the reverse process. Changing our spare room into a playroom with sofa bed to try and reclaim our living room from all the toddler toys.

We have a playroom and I got fed up with it just being for toys and space no one else could use & was considering getting rid and turning it into a craft room. But I didnt want toys all over the rest of the house so have compromised. We had a toy clear out and got rid of ones they dont play with. I then got some furnitute which I like, that I can hide the toys away in, and put a sofa and table in there. Its now a family/craft room, the children still play in there but it looks "nice" and I will happily sit in there to sew or read in the evenings.

So Id say just make it more multi use and invest in clever storage. Ikea stuff isnt really my thing so we have 2 big antique dressers with my stuff on the high shelves and the childrens stuff in plastic tubs in the cupboards. I found them really cheap on fb marketplace.

We have a sofa bed in the play room. The majority of the year it’s used as a dumping ground for cuddly toys. Otherwise used for accomodating grandparents 👍🏻 . If we didn’t do this we would have a living room like smyths I’m sure 😂

We had a playroom in our childhood home. It was still called the playroom long after we’d grown up even though it was obviously not being used as such any more!

Get a day bed and some smart looking storage pieces for the toys. There's no reason it can't be a multi-purpose room.

Put a double or a pull out daybed in the babys room. When guests come put baby in with siblings or you.

I agree with your dh, the toys will just end up all over the house

Depends on who clears up.

What @SaucyJack says.

We had a sofa bed in our playroom too. It worked really well.

I’ve never understood the guest room when you have a family that actually needed the space. I understand the “spare room” which is used for storage and has a spare bed.... but there are 52 weeks a year. Assuming you have a free loader for 2 weeks over Christmas and maybe 4 weeks over summer that still leaves 46 weeks a year. Which means 46 weeks of crap all over the house and in your children’s bedrooms so that your relatives can stay.

Why ask MN? You’ve made your decision, your husband is opposed to it 🤷🏼‍♀️