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

[Anonymous]

- Where do your overnights guests sleep?
(And who are the overnights: parents, friends, etc.?)
- If you have a dedicated guest room, what is the size in comparison to the kids' bedrooms? (Guest room is smaller, bigger, etc.)
- Is the guest room dedicated solely as a guest bedroom? What furniture is on it?
- Based on the above, is the guest sleeping area not a dedicated bedroom? If so, where, and on what do overnight guests sleep?
- Do any of your kids (permanently) share a bedroom?
- Do any of your kids bunk up during guests' visits?

I am trying to work this out in my home and I welcome ideas.

[Anonymous]

Guest room is larger than the kids' rooms. Extra space enables it to double as a home office and has an en suite.

[Anonymous]

My kids bunk up when guests come in, and this frees up the entire basement (it's a nice basement with lots of windows) and bathroom for guests.

[Anonymous]

It depends on who the guest is. I have a 2 bedroom apt and if the guest is my mother, my son will sleep either on the sofa or in a sleeping bag on the floor in my room. If the guest is a friend of mine, they usually sleep on the sofa.

[Anonymous]

Guest room (tiny) has double bed in it. The office has a twin as well. Gives options and is helpful as all family lives out of town, so we often have multiple people visiting at once.

One child, he has his own room.

[Anonymous]

4 br home. 2 kids, 2 adults in the family. Each kid has their own br. Adults sleep in the master bedroom. We have one guest bedroom.

All rooms have queen sized beds, except master bedroom that has a king bed. Usually one guestroom is enough for a couple (family or otherwise). If a couple and 2 kids visit, we will ask one of our kids to bunk in our room. If the kids are teens, we will put in another fold-away mattress in the second room.

If 3 couples and their kids come to visit, the 3 couples get their own rooms (1 guest and 2 kids br) and all the kids then sleep on air-mattresses in the family room or in the rooms their parents are sleeping in.

Our kids can bunk in our room or in the family room.

Guest room has 6 drawer dresser, 1 queen sized bed, 2 night tables with lamps, one glider with a floor lamp, 1 wall mirror. No TV.

[Anonymous]

The guest room is the same size as the kids room. My kids share a bedroom because I want them to, there's enough space to separate them.

We have guests pretty often. Like monthly, if not more. Anyone from college friends to cousins to grandparents.

There's a queen bed, night table, dresser, and a toy chest. Plus half the closet is empty. There's an attached bathroom. We're about to change part of our downstairs into an in-law suite.

When the kids are elementary school age I'll probably put them in separate bedrooms. One will move into what's now the guest room. Then when they have sleepovers their friends will sleep in their bedrooms with them.

[Anonymous]

3 Br house, 2 girls share a bedroom. Guest room is also office. Have plans to add Murphy bed for queen bed but haven't done it. May put on an addition at some point, but for now girls prefer sharing and we need a guest space for week+ grandparent visits multiple times a year. Girls bedroom is slightly larger, but both decent size with en suite bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

Guest "room" is the basement family room. Pull out couch, private full bath. House is 3 BR, 3.5 ba. Each kid has their own room.

We have one friend who stays for about 2 weeks a years in 2-7 day chunks. Otherwise guests are typically friends of college age kids. Most family lives locally.

[Anonymous]

We don't ever have overnight guests.

Out of town visitors stay at a hotel. Works out well for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't ever have overnight guests.

Out of town visitors stay at a hotel. Works out well for everyone.

+1 We have a small house.

[Anonymous]

A guest room would mean I'd potentially have guests. No thx.

[Anonymous]

Our guest room is the basement with a queen sized sofa bed and rest room 6 steps up. We hve a guest bedroom which is an office. We don't have guests often enough to use the space for a double bed.

[Anonymous]

We tried to make the kids rooms guest-worthy. Our kids are little, so they can always sleep on the floor in sleeping bags if they have to.

One kid room: Bunk bed with trundle. (Sleeps 3)

Other kid room: Double bed. (Sleeps 2 adults)

Basement/office/TV room: Comfortable queen pull-out (where close family who come for extended stays sleep)

[Anonymous]

We have a 3 br and just had our second baby. Older child moved into what had been the guest room, baby us in the other bedroom. Both kids rooms are the same size. We used to have a queen in the guest room (wasn't room for much else, they're not large rooms).

For now, guests (mainly grandparents) are in hotels. When the baby is out of a crib, we'll look at options to accommodate a couple in one of the kids rooms and have them share. We do technically have an almost queen size fold out couch in the nursery, but it takes up all of the floor space when unfolded so it's not really practical. I sleep on it folded up (it's basically twin size) sometimes (it's comfortable). We have a single friend visiting for a night in a few months, for that we'll put the baby in a pnp in our room and she'll sleep on the folded up couch.

We have a boy and girl, so as they get older (if we stay in this house) sharing a room won't work as well. But that's years away, I'll worry about that if and when it happens. For now, I'm enjoying our parents going back to their hotel and us getting some peace in the evenings.