When we have family visit (my sister, one of our parents, etc.), we always offer them our bed. Charlie has a floor bed, so I usually sleep with him when we have guests. Bee sleeps on the floor somewhere too... we don't have a guest bedroom, so it's really our only option.
When you have family visit, do they sleep in a guest room? Your bed? Somewhere else?
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
Yikes that sounds like a rough trip-you guys are considerate! We have spare bedrooms with beds for our guests
coconut / 8483 posts
Guest room! We offered our bed once when we had an apartment, we slept on an air mattress. It sucked! Now that we have a house we have a spare room and an office that has a pullout! No more giving up our bed 
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
If it's just one guest, they get the couch. In our defense, our couch is awesome though! I even sleep on it some nights because it's so comfy. We told MIL/FIL that if they wanted to stay at our apt while we were in the hospital, they could, but they declined. The one time a couple visited, we were all set to give them our room, but they refused and had one on couch, one on loveseat.
coconut / 8498 posts
Guest room. When we lived in our 1 bedroom my parents stayed in a hotel, friends slept on the couch or floor, and MIL and FIL insisted on sleeping in our bed.
I think it's weird for people to sleep in our bed.
nectarine / 2797 posts
Guest room. Once we have a second LO and don't have a guest room, we'll get a queen sized air mattress.
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
We've never had anyone stay the night. As a guest I never like sleeping in someone else's bed. But if my inlaws or grandma were to stay over I would offer our bed.
pomelo / 5789 posts
We had a guest room until LO was born 2 weeks ago. Now our guests will get our room and we will sleep on the queen bed we left in the nursery
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
My parents sleep in our bed and my brother usually sleeps on an air mattress in lo's room...and she sleeps with us.
honeydew / 7917 posts
We have a guest room, but there is only a twin size bed in there. Luckily we haven't had a couple stay over so that hasn't been an issue yet.
persimmon / 1341 posts
My parents live 10 minutes away and my inlaws do too so any guests would likely stay at their houses. If someone did stay here they'd get the couch, recliner, or air mattress. I'm not comfortable with anyone sleeping in my bed. We just got a free twin bed with a trundle that my husband is refinishing and will eventually be for guests until it turns into our daughter's big girl bed in a few years.
bananas / 9628 posts
@Weagle: yea, i wouldn't want our family members to sleep in our bed, it seems weird! on pinterest the other day i saw a throw pillow that said, 'we had sex on this bed' haha, maybe then no one would wanna sleep in your bed =D
we haven't had family stay with us, but friends stay on our futon and we also have an enormous sectional people have stayed on and we have air mattresses of the futon & couch are full
pomegranate / 3604 posts
We have a pull out couch for that reason. We also used to have a futon mattress but my mom ruined that the last time she visited.
blogger / pomegranate / 3300 posts
We offer our bed but most won't accept it. There is a guest bed in our daughters nursery so sometimes we pop up a pack and play in our room and let guests stay in the nursery.
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
We have a guest room thaty they sleep in. Our plan for when #2 comes is to keep the queen bed in our guest room but make it Prettybaby's bed. That way if we have guests they can have her room and she can bunk in with her brother/sister in the nursery or sleep with us if need be.
pomelo / 5093 posts
My MIL just mentioned that she thought it was normal to offer guests your own bed. I would never. Never! My room is my own personal space. And I would find it very odd to sleep in her bed. We have a guest room.
pomegranate / 3983 posts
They all slept in our guest room, except that meanwhile we've turned it into a playroom, so if they come now all we have to offer is a couch.
apricot / 423 posts
we have a guest room with a queen bed. when we have more than 2 guests, the 3rd sleeps on one of our couches. i don't think we've had more than 3 guests at any one time so far.
pomelo / 5321 posts
Now that we have an extra room, guests will sleep there. We didn't have an extra room at our last place. My dad and siblings were the only ones to visit and stay with us. My dad slept on the couch and my siblings slept on air mattresses.
nectarine / 2127 posts
We have a guest room, as well as a fold-out couch in our home office and a fold-out couch in our living room... We've never offered our bed to anyone lol
bananas / 9973 posts
Guest room! I once had to stay with my aunt & uncle & cousins, and my aunt INSISTED my sister and I (and our other cousins) sleep in her master bedroom. I felt terribly uncomfortable with the situation and even worse later, when my uncle came home, found out he wasn't in his own room, and started a screaming match with my aunt! SO uncomfortable! That was the one and only time I've ever slept in someone else's master bedroom and NEVER will do that again!
bananas / 9227 posts
Guest room. If we have a few visitors (like the summer my mom and 2 aunts came) two shared the craft room while my mom had the guest room. There is another room, but it's filled with so many boxes and books. The craft room is now the nursery, so we'll have to clean that other room for sure if we get more than 1 visitor.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
We have a guest room with a private bathroom. It's on the first floor while our other bedrooms are upstairs. I really like that about you our house. If we have more people come, we set up an air bed in my craft room.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
Before having a guest room with a bed, we had a pull out couch. Most guests would sleep on that except for my parents. We had my parents take our bed. I don't think anyone else would have felt comfortable in our bed. As a pp said, we've had sex in our bed so no one wants to sleep there. Anyway, we have a guest room now with its own private bath!
grapefruit / 4235 posts
We have a guest room, an air mattress and 2 couches - and have had all of them (plus another air mattress) filled before! No one's slept in our bed, but last time I was home my parents gave me their bed and they slept on an air mattress (I'm pregnant). All their other beds were full.
pomelo / 5331 posts
In a hotel. Sorry, folks. No guest room and I'm not sleeping on the floor in my own house. I guess I'm far less considerate than most!
grapefruit / 4049 posts
we have a pull-out mattress in our couch too since we don't have a guest room. we just bought it a few months ago and it's really comfortable.. feels like a real bed.
pomegranate / 3729 posts
We have a big couch and a raised queen sized air mattress. The only people who spend the night are my dad and sisters. My mom usually stays with a friend. When we went to see my mom at thanksgiving, she gave us her and my stepdads bed. It was the biggest in the house and we cobed most nights with LO. I was thankful since the last time we were there, a couple tests ago pre-baby, we slept on separate twin beds!
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