Should I give DSs good bedrooms and have a small spare room

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The house we are buying has 4 bedrooms.

The smallest is 8'9 x 8'9 (not including the airing cupboard and built in cupboards).

Is this too small to make into a guest room? If we put a double bed in there will be just enough room to walk round it surely?

Would it be better to give this room to DS2 and have a bigger spare room?

Also, would it be worth putting sofa in instead of a proper bed, or is that just the worst of all worlds!

How often do you have guests?

And why would they need a bigger room if all they are going to do is sleep there for a night or two?

I think that people that live in a house all the time deserve the bigger rooms

Surely it makes sense to have the smallest room as the spare? It's only going to be for guests to stop the night in, whereas your DS will be spending time in his room playing/doing homework (depending on age) etc.

I think you can get a small double, so it's bigger than a single but not quite a double. Maybe that would work. If it were me I would give the bigger room to the kids because they're in there every day. How often realistically would the guest room be used?

depends how often you ahve guests, and how many toys your ds2 has

make the kids share i say! and have 2 guest rooms!

Guve the DSs the bigger rooms. The spare will only be used occasionally, visitors can anage with a small room for short periods of time.

Would seem a real waste of a room to me to hae a big room as the spare.

Well yes, I agree in principle.

What are the alternatives to a standard double bed though, so it wouldn't just be a room with aq bed in it

You could get a single bed with a pull out single underneath it. When bed not in use you could dress it as a sort of couch and put bookshelves in. Would look really cosy. People usually only stop over for a few nights so they will just want somewhere to lay their head. If used only very occasionally I would go for a sofa bed.

how often do you have overnight guests? every weekedn or a couple of times a year?

unless your guests are very frequent or elderly /disabled, i would buy lots of stackable toy boxes and an inflatable bed and let the kids use it as a play room most of the time

We are about to move ds from the small bedroom into the much larger spare room. Having a big spare room means it has just become a dumping ground for everything we don't want to put away straight away [hblush]

room with a bed in is fine

sofa bed or trundle won't work either will it, cos you can then get more stuff in the room, but to extend it out you'd have to take the other stuff out surely?

I love this bed.
It is a sofa, a day bed, there's a pull out bed below plus the drawers are real storage space.

Buy some storage buckets and use it as a play room when there are no guests, or get a small folding table/desk and use it as occasional office space.

I would give larger rooms to DCs. Buy a small double for small spare room - no need to have any other furniture in spare room.

We have the smallest room as the spare room.
We have this IKEA daybed as a pull out double which is good because of the storage.Also a hanging rail for guests.

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Depends who you have to stay I think. We have the largest room as spare room / office 'cos we quite often have families with babies and small children staying and it's nice for them to have room for a cot in the room as well as the double bed.

my dd has that bed, it does not like being taken apart at all, no good if you plan moving on..

Of course your DC should have the bigger rooms. If the smallest room is big enough for a double bed (perhaps get a high one with drawers underneat for storage) then I don't understand the problem?

(perhaps it's because our smallest bedroom would only fit a toddler bed, not that I'm or anything :) )

Ooh, I like that daybed option. Is it comfortable?

Hopefully we will have friends to stay more often once we have a spare room as at the moment I feel a bit of a student putting them on a futon in the lounge.

I suppose if we did have friends with babies (which we will have) they could have our room and we could go in the spare room.