To create another “staged” room?

[AllHailKingLouis]

4 bedroomed house, only 2 adults living here. 3 spare bedrooms.

I’ve turned one into an art room and I use it quite a lot. I then turned one into a double guest bedroom which to be honest, is more a staged room rather than a used room. It may get used maybe 3 times a year.

now, what to do with the smallest bedroom? DH doesn’t want it. I do have a granddaughter but if she sleeps over she’ll want to sleep with me. So, do i “stage” it as a little girls bedroom? Put all her stuff in there even though she won’t use it? (She might in a few years).

I don’t want a junk room which is what it currently is. I can stage it for around £500 and it will serve no other purpose than to make me feel better. DH thinks I should just leave it as an unused room but AIbU to want to stage it? (Plus it would give mr somewhere to put all dgd’s stuff)

It's weird that you called a staging but yes I would decorate it for your granddaughter and all her things.

Please excuse typos!

To me, a storage room is always a good thing.

Why make it specific to your GD if she’s not going to be using it?

two-adult household here too with lots of bedrooms. The ones used as spare bedrooms are decorated nicely for use as spare bedrooms and not tailored to any specific person or demographic.

I turned our unused box bedroom as a walk in dressing room / wardrobe
BEST THING EVER

We have a craft/office, office/guest room, master and the last room is wardrobe/laundry (will be a nursery soon hopefully).

Your GD is going to grow and start to want to sleep in her own room surely?

I'd do it up as a lovely room for her. That way it can't gradually turn into a dumping ground, which i find 'unspecific' rooms can quite easily. I've got a room which is a spare double room and i have it looking the way i would want a bedroom without DH flinging his underpants about the inevitable clutter of living.

I STILL go in there sometimes and find things which have migrated in there which DH or the DDs don't know what to do with and can't be arsed to decide. I move them.

You can put in wardrobes and/or nice tall chest of drawers which can remain 80% storage for yourselves until she's older. I've got all my linen in the spare room chest.

Pop some Ukrainian refugees in there?

I would do it up as a lovely spare bedroom in, and put your granddaughter’s toys in there - even if she wants to sleep in with you she would still like having a room to play in.

But I wouldn’t go all out at making it “little girl’s bedroom” - she’ll be an older girl in no time, other people may stay over in it? And there’s a bit of me that thinks about those “my MIL has made an entire bedroom up for our daughter and I think it’s weird and controlling” threads - obviously that entirely depends on the relationship and I’m not at all saying this would be the case here, but making it a touch more neutral might help in the long run? Nice soft green and white or something.

This is exactly my first thought! 😁

Your use of the word staging is a bit annoying.

The concept is also quite daft, just have it as a nicely decorated spare room with a single bed. Really not sure why a thread is needed on this…

I thought 'staging' was what you do when you are trying to sell your house. 😕

As you have the space then I would make it a room to contain GD's stuff in on place. Obviously toys etc will get spread all around when she is visiting, but having one room it all goes back to when she leaves is great. That's what my PILs do.

I wouldn't go bonkers on decorating it specifically as a little girl bedroom especially if you think she won't sleep in there (although it sounds like you really enjoy that sort of thing, in which case do!),

It's not a show home. Just decorate it in neutral colours then anyone can stay there sure put your GD's stuff in there. How old is she? Does she share a bed with her parents at home?

Consider downsizing if you have too many rooms?

Why are you wasting valuable space due to the concept of ‘spacing’ your own home to suit other people who rarely use those spaces ? It’s bizarre. An entire double room used three times a year? We have three spare bed rooms: one has a double bed for guests but is decorated to suit us and not any one person; the second is a home office; the third and smallest is a snug with a chaise, second tv, reading lamp, table for a wine glass etc etc. If it were next to the master bedroom we’d probably have made it into a walk in wardrobe. It’s a nice place to retreat to with a book, a candle and a glass of wine.

Make it into an office for your new 'themed bedroom design' business.

What a problem to have 🙄

Storage room, dressing room, playroom, box room, 2nd guest bedroom, sitting room, library, man cave, pantry, office. You know best what you use your house for and what will be most useful.

Why would it cost so much?

Your granddaughter would love it!

I am a bit put off by the ‘staging’.

Just decorate the room and put DGD stuff in there ( where is it now?) . Surely she won’t be sharing a bed with you forever - if she stays over regularly she will be sleeping in another room fairly soon surely?
The room doesn’t have to be ‘staged’ for anyone - just a bed lamp etc…
Personally ( and full disclosure I’m not a DGM ) I think if a child sleeps in a bed in their own home / doesn’t have sleeping issues they should easily sleep in a bed in a separate room at Grandparents. ( If they are lucky enough to have a spare room. )

I'd be turning it into a utility room to save the servants from injuring their backs carrying the laundry up and down the stairs.

2 adults here, with four bedrooms. We have our bedroom; an office for me because I wfh permanently, and need room for a lot of reference books; a music room/office for DH, who wfh a lot; and a non-specific spare room for guests, but where I also have nice shelves and drawers for all my craft and sewing stuff, which I use downstairs but have no room to store elsewhere. It works really well.

If your DGD stays often and you want a room where she has a bed to use or not, and you have things of hers to use when she’s with you, then actually turn it into her room, not a pastiche of one - have her things in drawers etc so you can keep it tidy when she’s not there. Don’t make it too juvenile or other guests might not appreciate it much, and in any case, they grow up very fast and change their minds all the time about what they like! You could spend lots on unicorns this week and then find she’s moved on in a few weeks’ time.

More economical to go with neutral walls and bedding (on a double bed if you can fit one in, it’s more versatile) and then have some large picture frames where you can put in pictures or posters related to her current interests, and change them regularly as her taste changes, or take them down when you have adult guests. (I have yet to find any adult guest who didn’t love having fairy lights in the guest room though, even some of DH’s rugby friends 😁).

*Your use of the word staging is a bit annoying.

The concept is also quite daft, just have it as a nicely decorated spare room with a single bed. Really not sure why a thread is needed on this…*

this. Single bed and shit loads of storage.

i agree with pp though, sounds like you need to downsize..

I did suggest that but DH doesn’t want to add more plumbing to the house.

Move? Why live in a house with more rooms than you need and then on top spend money on things you don’t need to put in the rooms you don’t use?