If you have kids and a guest room; or, if no guest room, where do guests sleep?

[Anonymous]

Small townhouse, 3 bedrooms, 3yo and 8mo.
The kids each have their own room. We have an extra mattress for guests to use in the living room. Guests are usually only my parents or single friends. If friends come with their family they stay in a hotel because we don't have the space.

[Anonymous]

4br house, 2 kids, 2 adults

Guests stay in the guest room. it is 12x12. It has a double bed.

When my kids have friends over everybody sleeps in the basement. It has a pull out couch and another couch and we have 2 blow up mattresses.

If we had 4 adults as guests I would have my oldest give up his double bed and sleep in the basement so the adults could have the "good" bed.

[Anonymous]

Our guests stay at a hotel. Here is why:

Three bedrooms:

master (double bed) -- no one likes sleeping on a double (except us), we have found. Also, connecting master bathroom has 3 cat liter boxes in it so bedroom door must remain open and accessible at all times. No other place to put cat boxes except. . . .kitchen? No one wants this. Hall bathroom? This is our family bathroom.

DD's bedroom -- so tiny only one single bed will fit in there. If we have single guests (like my unmarried 30-something younger sister), she'll sleep in here and my DD sleeps on our floor in a sleeping bag. But it's not suitable for, say, my ILs.

3rd (and smallest) bedroom -- only thing in there is a gigantic old desk my DH inherited from an old boss.

[Anonymous]

Guests are typically one of my parents or my brother. Guests sleep in DS's room and he will either sleep with me or with the guest.

[Anonymous]

We have 2 guest rooms and they are the same size as DS' room which is pretty average. Both rooms have a queen bed and two dressers. One has a tv. Mostly just friends stay over if they have been drinking and/or they live a distance away. Family is all about 45 min away although sometimes they spend the night. Babysitter sometimes spends the night if we are going to be out late.

[Anonymous]

We have a 3 bedroom place and one of the bedrooms we converted to my husband's office, so we don't have a guest room. When my mother comes (she's really the only guest we have) we have a foldable cot (that's actually comfy) that we put in the office.

We have a finished basement but my mother is a Floridian and thinks our basement is the temperature of Siberia.

Luckily we have no other visitors. My husband's parents live close by so when his relatives visit they stay with them.

[Anonymous]

We have 4 bedrooms and an office, with a designated guest room. Guest room is one of the bigger bedrooms, but I could see changing that as the kids get older. If we have a third kid, the oldest two will share a room and we'll keep a guest room. Once they outgrow that, we'll probably reconfigure my office to be guest room/office.

We have guests often: grandparents, our siblings and kids, out of town friends (often with kids). Depending on who is staying with us, sometimes the kids double up to free up additional room and/or we put an air matress in the office.

[Anonymous]

Kids get kicked out of their rooms and their rooms become extra guest rooms when needed. The kids are fine in sleeping bags on the floor of our room or the family room.

[Anonymous]

We have 4 bedrooms. One for us, one each for the kids, and the guest room. The guest room is larger than the kids rooms and doubles as our home office. Adult guests get the guest room. Extra kids can stay in the guest room with their parents, or bunk up with our kids. One kid's room has a single bed with trundle, the other kid's room has a double bed with room on the floor for a twin sized air mattress. The couch in the living room is also a pull out bed. When we had a lot of family come visit at once, our kids slept on the floor in our room and their rooms were used by their aunts and uncles.

We purposely have a lot of different configurations for hosting guests. It all depends on who is visiting and what level of privacy they might need/want what configuration we use. Adults are always offered a bed even if it means our kids must give theirs up. With kids we check if their parents have a preference or if the kids have a preference.

[Anonymous]

4 br home, 3 kids (each with their own room).

Guests sleep in kids' rooms. Kids sleep on the basement when guests are over.

[Anonymous]

We bought a house with an extra bedroom specifically so we'd have space for guests -- particularly our family -- to stay since they visit regularly and we want to encourage that. We then had another kid a couple years after moving in and we are having our kids share a room in large part so we can maintain a guest room. It's a small room without a lot of floor space. It has a queen bed that takes up most of it. The small closet has a luggage rack, empty hangers, a hair dryer and extra pillows and blankets on the top shelf in case they need them. There's a bed side table always stocked with Kleenex, couple bottles of water and a power strip to charge their devices.

[Anonymous]

We had a guest room in our previous home and one in our current home. It's a dedicated guest room, though we keep a rack of dress-up costumes there when guests aren't staying with us. It's about the same size as my daughter's room, with a queen bed for comfort.

If we have more than 1-2 guests, like when my folks visit with my teenaged half-brother, my daughter will bunk with me and my brother will take her room while my folks take the guest room.

Growing up, my room had the big bed, so guests stayed there and I'd bunk with my sister.

[Anonymous]

Very few overnight guests but when we do, kids sleep in gameroom or share a room as there isn't room for a permanent guestroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We bought a house with an extra bedroom specifically so we'd have space for guests -- particularly our family -- to stay since they visit regularly and we want to encourage that. We then had another kid a couple years after moving in and we are having our kids share a room in large part so we can maintain a guest room. It's a small room without a lot of floor space. It has a queen bed that takes up most of it. The small closet has a luggage rack, empty hangers, a hair dryer and extra pillows and blankets on the top shelf in case they need them. There's a bed side table always stocked with Kleenex, couple bottles of water and a power strip to charge their devices.

Don't forget the bible in the top drawer.

[Anonymous]

Small 2 BR apartment. 2 adults, small child, and baby. We all sleep in one room, and the other one is the guest room (kids' clothes and lots of other stuff reside in there). Mostly family stays with us. They use the guest room and if needed the living room floor she couch too.