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[quote=Anonymous]OP, we have a house with 5 bedrooms. We have one child, one on the way. We have been here for 3 years: bedroom for us, bedroom for kid, bedroom turned into home office, 2 guest rooms. The guest rooms have been mostly unused space except around the holidays, when we have friends in town, etc.  While they are unused more than not, it's nice to have a guest room that is separate from your office, and to have a guest room vs "guest sofa".

While some may think that 3 years is a long time to have 2 rooms basically sit empty, the time has flown by.  Now, we have baby #2 coming and it's nice to know that we can have our bedroom, 2 kid bedrooms, a home office, and still have a guest room.  We won't be squished. Even if I were pregnant with twins, we would have enough room. However, we are in our late 30s and both DH and I owned houses before this one. We were able to use equity from his house to pay a good down payment. We couldn't have done this when we were first starting out. I had a "guest sofa" for many years, and my laptop on my bed was my "home office".

Our basement, where one of the guest rooms is, also has living area/bathroom and could be a standalone unit, if we needed the money we *could* rent it out. But we don't really want to do that with our family home. Maybe further down the road we will decide to go for Au Pair route and it will be an ideal setup. However for now it's nice for guests to have their own space when they visit. I mean, if something happened to my husband, I had to quit working, or we otherwise needed the money, it would be easy to rent out. But this is our family home, not a boarding house.[/quote]

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