Should you have a guest room?

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I have a new house.
I can’t decide what to do with spare room.i have two DC ( still young)
One has taken the en-suite double room.
One wanted the smallest double room because it overlooked garden.
I have my own bedroom.
I have a single bedroom as a office for WFH
Downstairs there is only one big kitchen dinner living space. One small to medium living room.
i have a spare largish double room. (I think maybe a DC might want it when they are older to swap for the smaller room)
I Don’t think I’ll have that many overnight guests because I am not that social and relatives live near enough to go home!
So should I make the room into spare guest bedroom or what do others do?
A play room or put in a sofa bed?

thanks

Anyone recommend a good sofa bed. I am sort of thinking more of a sofa bed in a nice velvet colour or something. Gaming desk and maybe small piano/keyboard

I have definitely got my eye on this sofa bed for when my mum comes to stay
www.dunelm.com/product/felix-velvet-chesterfield-sofa-bed-1000208831

I have 2

Oops posted too soon. I have 2 offices - one for dc computers and tech so they don’t have any in their bedrooms

I was thinking sofa bed that folds out with a double mattress

Maybe move to a smaller house

We are converting our garage and will be used for office (day); guest room (sofa bed; one weekend a month); hangout for kids to get out of my lovely sitting room and play video games somewhere I don’t have to watch. Mine are 12&10. I like the idea of rooms bring multi functional; I think they turn into dumping grounds other wise (or maybe that’s me?!). But anyway - maybe a play room; (they can use for vid games later?) and a guest room?

We don't have that luxury living in London. Never been able to afford to move up from 3 to 4 bedrooms despite 25 years on the housing ladder.

Yes ! I might convert garage later when save up some cash then could revert the guest room to a bedroom.
hiw much is your garage conversion as a curiosity?

Yes London housing is a bitch! I’ve relocated myself from London back up north. Thanks to Covid wfh!

Playroom, it will keep the rest of the house much tidier! Maybe with a sofa bed.

You could have your office set up in the spare double room but also add a sofa bed for just in case people do stay.
Then use the single bedroom as your own walk-in wardrobe. This would be my dream! I've always wanted a wardrobe room.

a room for Lego!

I don’t have enough clothes. I am wfh so actually don’t care what I look like any more normally a complete state!

I quite like the little office because there are views of mountains in the distance and it’s quieter for working.

Day bed better than sofa bed BC sofa bed mattresses are so uncomfortable unless you’re really careful and get a good one.

This depends on whether you have overnight guests or not. We do at least monthly, so use two spare rooms and often the additional reception room, with a blow up mattress, as guest rooms. Sometimes it’s two folks stating but generally it’s eight or more. Our friends come over, few drinks,,everyone stays, and we go to theirs.

if you don’t have folks to stay regularly then of course you don’t need a guest room. Look at how you live and decide.

I don’t have guests generally.
that was what I was wondering about sofa beds. Is there such a thing as a
really good sofa bed that’s comfy enough?

You can definitely get some really comfy sofa beds as I've slept on them at friends' houses but suspect they weren't cheap - something like www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-arlo-sofa-bed-light-leg-soft-touch-chenille-midnight/p3901263

Our guest room over the years has been play room, office, place to put airer for washing, teenage hangout room, junk room, ... but always had a bed or sofa bed as well as my mum occasionally stays with us.

Willow and Hall make really comfortable sofa beds. Not cheap though

I have one like this, had to buy a memory foam topper for it as mattress too thin (although I was sleeping on it every night at one point). The problem with these are that they are always a very small double, OK for one person but not two (generally measure less than about 3' 10" wide sleeping area).

I have overnight visitors about once every 2 months. I wouldn't really mind abandoning my bedroom for the night but having a guest room is easier.

I wfh so it's my office too and is pretty small, prob 2.5m square. I bought a very sturdy folding double bed frame and a real mattress plus some big plastic boxes that fit underneath it. And a folding table as a desk.

Now most of the time the bed is folded and stood against the wall with the bedding stacked in the boxes, and the desk and rolling trolley and chair out for my office. When I get visitors chair and trolly and folded desk go into my room, random office stuff goes in the boxes under the bed and with a bit of shuffling it looks like a proper bedroom.

Only downside is the bed being visible but its behind me so I'm not looking at it.

If you really expect to never get visitors make it a playroom and spend the odd night on the sofa or a folding bed.

Oh bugger, just noticed the age of this thread. Sorry guys.

We don't have one because I don't want guests. Maybe an extra playroom to keep downstairs toy- free.