Single room or double room?

[AxelsRose]

I now have 3 spare bedrooms. One will be turned into a computer room/office. The other two are big enough to be doubles or make spacious singles. DH thinks we should do them as single rooms but AIBU to think that most guests would want a double bed??
One of the rooms is bigger than the other and definately warrants a double bed - the other will fit a double bed, two bedside tables and a chest of drawers with a telly on them (or fixed onto the wall).

AIBU to make them both doubles? Even if it means them being rather “cosy”?

Plus, if we come to selling, I think it would look better to show that we have 3 double bedrooms and a single/office??

3/4 beds??

Why not get a single bed which can become a double like this:

www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/beds/beds-with-storage/hemnes-day-bed-w-3-drawers-2-mattresses-grey-malfors-firm-spr-39227795/

Always doubles.

I'm in a similar position now the DC have grown up & have either left home or will be doing so in the next year or two. The plan is for the smallest room to become a study & of the other two larger rooms, one will have a double bed & the other will have two singles. We think that will work best for us, but two cosy double guest rooms would be fine too.

Double beds are better. No one needs floor space when they are just visiting.

Doubles

We turned one of our spare bedrooms into an office, one into a tv room. Huge screen on the wall and a big comfy sofa. Don’t want to be encouraging too many guests. I’ve got plans for a yoga studio.. eventually we could be a one bed house

Always doubles. I hate sleeping in single beds. You talk about them like hotel rooms, though OP. Why does a spare room need a tv?

The only guests we tend to have are our kids. DHs youngest son still visits every other week or so (he’s 22) but has never really had his own room as such so one guest room will be used maybe twice a month by him.

Our other kids only tend to visit at Christmas. My two come Christmas Eve until Boxing Day and DHs two come Boxing Day until the 27th. As the four of them are rarely (if ever) all here together I think it makes sense to have two double rooms then his two get a double room each if the come together and so do my two.

I’d do one room with double bed one with two singles. They way you have it everyone will share beds? I don’t mind sleeping with my sister in one room but I’d like my own bed.

No not sharing beds, only two visit at a time, therefore they’ll each have their own room with double bed

Yes, but your adult children may well start bringing partners before too long, and they aren't going to appreciate single beds then. Just get doubles. There's no downside to a single person sleeping in a double, but it gives you the option of accommodating couples.

@bridgetreilly that’s a good point! Both my boys have partners so that could well be on the cards for the future

Double in one, two singles in other that can be pushed together if necessary?

How close are your DC to having grandchildren? My ILs set their 4 bed up as 2 double rooms plus a study. I think I stayed there once when both doubles were used. Now we've had DC it doesn't work - neither double is really big enough to fit a cot in , and even once they are out of it a double isn't great for little DC to share. Something like the Ikea bed that converts between single and double in one of the rooms would have offered them more flexibility.

How often do you have guests? Seems a bit of a waste to have two spare guest rooms. That said I'd at least the larger with a double bed and the second room with a single which can become a double or a good quality sofa bed which can become a double (but could also be used for immediate family to relax/watch TV in when guests aren't staying).

DHs kids are unlikely to have any children. One definitely won’t.

My eldest doesn’t want kids (so he says) but my youngest could possibly end up with a child —before——he— —should—

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