Does your kids room double as a regular guest room?

[gardencarrot]

So I live far from my family and have them over to visit quite often, usually 2 adults and 2 kids but sometimes 4 adults and 2 kids. I have 3 bedrooms and 1 child who is in the nursery. No problems at the moment but I want to decorate the current guest room which will become DS room in time when we have another baby in a few years (hopefully).

The 2 adults and 2 kids usually all sleep in the same room, the other 2 adults in the living room on an air bed. It's no problem to have DS bunk in with us when they stay but I'm not sure what types of beds to get.

Do I go for a double bed and have DS sleep in that as his own bed or do I get some sort of triple bunk bed sleeper thing? Or do I stick with a normal single for him and rearrange the furniture and blow up beds each time we have guests?

Or maybe a single bed and a double sofa bed? That's what we have in the largest kids room, which also doubles as a guest bedroom.

Good idea, I like the sofa bed as it will grow with him too. Ooh never thought of that!

Or 2 stackable singles/ single with underneath pull out bed.

Or a day bed for your DS, which can convert to double when needed.

Or as spreading suggested a single bed and a double sofa bed.

Depends on how big/what shape the room is and what else needs to fit in their.

There not their

I hate sleeping on sofa beds! They would be ok for the child guests though. DD has a double in her room that we use for guests and she bunks in with DS.

guests wouldn’t get a bedroom, they’d get a pull out couch or air mattresses in the living room. Kids of a reasonable age could probably all stay together

We have the trundle beds.
So either 2 singles or one king size bed.

Kids bunk up on sofa bed

We have two kids in a three bed house. Both kids rooms have a set of bunk beds each. When we have a family to stay, one dc goes into the small room with the other and the family have the larger room with their kids in bunk beds and adults on an air bed.

We have a similar issue and with children/guests getting older, it was getting harder to accommodate everyone, not least as we no longer have a spare bedroom.

One of the children's rooms has a trundle bed, which we still use and just move one of them in there to create a spare room - they quite like having sleepovers! We also keep a mattress under our bed if needed in another bedroom.

And then we bit the bullet and installed a studybed in the study recently (www.studybed.co.uk). It takes up a fair bit of room and was more expensive than a sofa bed but it could potentially spare us having an extension in future (4 DC in a 4-bed house). We managed to fit an extra 5 adults and 2 children in this summer which we couldn't have done before. It also means that we don't always have to move someone out of a bedroom if just 2 people come to stay, which does get more contentious as they get older. And I don't have to rearrange all the furniture, it just pulls down.