https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:14:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom/page/2#post-2623046 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:33:03 +0000 OldpuebloJenn 2623046@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We made the guest room into DD1. We left the queen bed, so it can accommodate guests. When DD2 is old enough for a bed, we'll get a trundle bed, so both girls can sleep there.<br /> My mom was here for 3 weeks waiting for DD2 to arrive, she slept in the queen, and DD1 slept on a twin mattress on the floor of the nursery. Worked fine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom/page/2#post-2623038 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:00:26 +0000 maddyz 2623038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a small two bedroom apartment. Generally guests stay on the living room sofa with the understanding that they will have an early morning. We are currently expecting number two any minute and I just ordered a foam mattresses the folds in thirds for my mom to sleep on in lo1s room so I can be up nursing in the living room and not keep her up. It's "single" sized, so only 25" wide so it fills up pretty small. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622822 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:44:41 +0000 JenGirl 2622822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a two bedroom house. When we had our son, we kept a queen bed in the nursery, along with his crib. It's a little tight, but we don't do much in there, so it's fine. We considered a murphy bed for the nursery, and may do that when we buy a house. </p> <p>When he was a newborn, he slept in a bassinet in our room and guests slept in the bed in the nursery. Now that he's in his crib, we sleep in the nursery when guests sleep over and they sleep in our room. Though, last week my step-mom spent the night and offered to take the baby overnight, so she slept in the nursery! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622620 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:53:15 +0000 Miss Ariel 2622620@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It depends who it is. When my dad comes out with various family he'll book a hotel. But if a close friend stays she'll sleep on the couch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622543 Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:06:58 +0000 autumnleaves 2622543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The nursery stayed our nursery. LO1 moved into our guest bedroom when he was 18 months old and we have a sleeper sofa in our living area. We offered to sleep on the sofa and let my ILs take our room when they visited for 2 weeks but they slept on the sofa. I think the same thing will happen at Thanksgiving. When the boys are old enough for bunk beds, we'll have them share a room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622511 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:46:35 +0000 mrsrain 2622511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a futon in the living room and an air mattress we can put in the den. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622507 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:42:45 +0000 jaguar 2622507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a spare room for guests, but we have a small upstairs living area that has a sofa bed. It's 99% left as a sofa, but comes in handy to pull out for visitors. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622502 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:36:31 +0000 PawPrints 2622502@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We set up an air mattress in the office. People who are too fancy to sleep on an air mattress (i.e. all four of our parents) rent a VRBO when they visit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622501 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:36:00 +0000 dolphin 2622501@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Pull out sofa bed in the family room </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622496 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:23:35 +0000 Corduroy 2622496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our guests use LO2's room, LO2 goes in a pack in play in our room. We sleep in the living room. It is the combination that works best for us at the moment. My kids wake up at 4:30 &amp; 6:00 so even though my guests would sleep in the living room it isn't convinient. I don't want anyone else up with us that early. Two grumps are enough. Plus DH likes space to himself at night to play video games. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622492 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:13:58 +0000 Alexandra603 2622492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hotel! We have a murphy bed in our 3rd bedroom which works if we take the crib out. I'd do it for a friend who was staying 1-2 nights but otherwise I think everyone is more comfortable if they stay off-site :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622490 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:03:32 +0000 Periwinkle 2622490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We hair turned our guest room/office into LO's big boy room this past weekend. We got rid of our queen size bed in there and decided to get LO a trundle bed (twin size). This way, when someone comes to stay, there is room for two to stay in his room and he can come sleep in our room on an air mattress. Not totally ideal, but we don't have a private guest space anymore like we used to. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622467 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:25:59 +0000 MrsSCB 2622467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My family was just here after LO was born and they stayed at an Airbnb. My ILs will do the same in October. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622466 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:25:48 +0000 skipra 2622466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a daybed in our finished basement but with the location of the thermostat its not really an option in the winter. We also have our couch or air mattress. We have LO1 in a full size bed so the plan is to get some kind of trundle bed option in LO2's room so guests could stay in LO1's room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622460 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:19:54 +0000 Mrs. Pen 2622460@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We never have visitors. We live in a small two-bedroom apartment. There's a couch if someone was desperate? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622450 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 21:14:37 +0000 Mrs. Toad 2622450@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hotel, we are in a two bedroom apartment. </p> <p>My mother did stay on an air mattress when my first was born. We have a set of bunk beds and a trundle bed, so if someone really wanted to stay the can have the upper bunk or the trundle. We had a difficult enough time getting my 23 month old to sleep on the bottom bunk that I'm not moving him off it when anyone wants to stay in January for the new baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622410 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:38:13 +0000 wheres_c 2622410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are about to turn our guest room into a room for #2. We will keep the guest bed in there and add a crib. If we have guests they will sleep in there and the baby will sleep in a pack and play in our room.<br /> Once #2 is not a baby, guests will still sleep in #2s room and #2 will sleep in his brothers room on the trundle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622200 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:59:23 +0000 pregnantbee 2622200@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They stay in a hotel. I feel badly, but we don't have other options. Our visitors like their own space anyway, so maybe they'd do the same even if we did have a slot for them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622199 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 17:53:40 +0000 KayKay 2622199@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At our old rental, DD1s room had a twin-over-full bunk bed with a twin trundle underneath too. So that was one potential option for guests -- either DD1 could sleep upstairs in our room and guests could have her full-sized bunk, or DD1 would stay in the full and a guest could sleep on the upper bunk. DD2s room was the nursery, but it also had a murphy bed, which was fantastic. It was easy to move her up to our room (in a PNP) and pull the bed down for guests, and it was more comfortable than an aerobed. At that age (&lt;1y), DD2 was pretty flexible about where she slept, too.</p> <p>When we've had extra guests, we've also put an aerobed in more "unused" rooms like the study or bonus room.</p> <p>Honestly, I *hate* having people out in the true living space...like a family room or living room. I think it's awkward for everyone! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622157 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:37:04 +0000 erinbaderin 2622157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a pull out couch in the basement. That being said, I think there are ways to politely say that you'd love to see people but you don't have the space for overnight guests right now, if you were so inclined. THAT being said, I think at least for the first little while you could put baby in with you and get an inflatable bed for guests to go in the nursery. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622152 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:27:34 +0000 kiddosc 2622152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we converted our guest room into the nursery for #2, we took the full bed from the guest room and made it #1's big boy bed. Now when guests come, they sleep in his bed and he sleeps on a foldaway twin bed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622149 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:22:21 +0000 MaryM 2622149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom doesn't have a guest room (she has a "loft" like room at the top of the stairs outside of her bedroom)</p> <p>She got a day bed with a trundle. It takes up most of the room when the trundle is popped up, but it works for occasional guests. Maybe a trundle option could work so that normally, you have more space, but when guests come you have more beds. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622132 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:00:00 +0000 littlecasita1122 2622132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we bought a new couch earlier this year, we made sure to find one with a sleeper sofa. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622131 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:59:38 +0000 Cherrybee 2622131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>They have to get a hotel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622129 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:57:21 +0000 youboots 2622129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We rarely have anyone stay over. But we have an aero bed we can put in M or my office if needed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622127 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:54:41 +0000 Foodnerd81 2622127@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We lived in a two bedroom condo with one, then two kids. Guest got the couch or air bed in the living room- and that was pretty much only our siblings. Anyone else stayed at a hotel. Or sometimes my mom or sister would come up while DH was out of town and they would share our bed. And one time DH's grandmother stayed with us and slept in the queen bed in LOs room while she was in the crib, but she snuck in after LO was asleep. </p> <p>@raspberries: I think it's totally reasonable to not host guests for a while. Even just having people over all day without staying with us was incredibly draining after lo2 was born. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622117 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:35:28 +0000 brownepiano 2622117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So we do technically have a guest room but we have a 3 bedroom house and two boys. DS 1 has his own room and DS 2 was in our room in a packnplay. Guests use the third room. We got a single over double bunk bed so we can fit more people in that tiny room. When we don't have guests DS 2 sleeps there in his packnplay. Eventually the boys will share a room so we can keep our guest room. Basically I'd rather have a guest room than a nursery and I think cribs are overrated. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622099 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:16:53 +0000 snowjewelz 2622099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're also in the process of converting our spare/guest bedroom into DD1's big girl room and DD2 will just take over current nursery. </p> <p>We have a Queen pull out sleeper in the basement and a full bath one flight up so that's where guests will stay. My last house guest actually stayed down there anyway; DD wakes up before 7am so we didn't want all the commotion to wake her up so it was easier and more private for her to have the basement to herself, plus TV. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622095 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:12:49 +0000 looch 2622095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a guest room (with a full sized bed). On the rare occasion where we need extra space, we have a twin sized air mattress. My son's bed is also full sized, so we could move him out and he could sleep on the twin in the master.</p> <p>We could also put someone in the playroom, but not on couches, on an air mattress. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-dont-have-a-guest-bedroom#post-2622090 Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:04:58 +0000 Truth Bombs 2622090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we did my daughter's big girl room we specifically got her a queen so it would be useful for guests (and so it would last her for a really long time). We have multiple guests coming for Christmas so although we have a guest room, we need two. We're just putting the additional guests on the queen in my daughter's room and she'll sleep on a blow up toddler mattress in either our bonus room or the master bedroom with us. </p>