Given the number of nights guests occupy your guest room do you think your dedicated guest room (and bath) is necessary?
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I really like having it available, my husband's family lives overseas.
The good news is that the furniture in there cost me nothing, so I don't feel like i had to go out and buy bedroom furniture.
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Our guest room is closest to the A/C and gets much cooler than our room so we sleep in their on really hot days. We catch up on sleep in their too separately so we don't disturb the other.
It's nice to have the extra bedroom for those purposes, but if it was just for guests it would be a total waste of space.
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Ours is totally unnecessary and will be the next LO's nursery (God willing!) I think we've had more people chose to sleep on the couch anyway! lol
ETA - both of our families live one town away, so they would never really need to stay over.
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YES YES YES. We basically moved just because we need a guest room. All 3 sets of our parents (mine and divorced ILs) live a plane ride away, so our guest room is occupied at *least* once a month by one of them, and almost every weekend by us laying down with LO when she gets up at 5am so the other one can sleep
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I wish we had one, but we can't afford a 4 bedroom apartment. My dad just came to visit for two weeks and he slept in the living room. It was fine.
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Necessary for us! We don't have too many out of town guests, but it's where my mom sleeps when she watches LO (much easier for her to come to us than for us to pack everything up and go there). When LO was waking up multiple times a night either DH or I would occasionally sleep in there so that one of us could get some uninterrupted sleep. It has been awesome having a guest room (there wasn't one in the house I grew up in).
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DH uses ours late at night when working - the office is in our bedroom so I prefer he not work there when I am sleeping.
We could do w/o though.
When we have lots of guests I usually have the kids sleep with us and that frees up 2 bedrooms (both have full size beds)
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I can't say ours gets used all the time, but with both of our families and many of our friends living at least 2 states away from us, I would hate if we didn't have it. Even when we were just living in an apartment (before our house) we always had at least a 2 bedroom with an extra bed set up for visitors. It gets used maybe 5-7 times a year I'd guess, but I wouldn't want to give it up.
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Ours is pretty handy to have available. I would say it gets used a combined 5-6 weeks out of the year. We have a lot of out of town family and friends that come into town to visit. The month of September it was used for 20 days!!
Plus, like @looch: I didn't have to pay anything to furnish it - just all our extra furniture. -
I used it last week when DH had a MOTN flight for work and I didn't want to go to bed early and keep him up and didn't want him to wake me up early.
My mom used it a lot when she stayed over during the NB days and occasionally we'll have a friend or family stay over, but it's rare. We could go without it.
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@looch: we used my husband's bachelor set. It's dark furniture and has an imposing sleigh. I'm not crazy about the furniture, but with all the other "me" stuff in there it's one of my favorite rooms.
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I like having it and we use it occasionally (a friend is using it this weekend!) but without it, we have a queen pull out couch and an extra bed downstairs (albeit not a "bedroom") and there's certainly no dedicated guest bath. We use it when one of us is really sick and doesn't want to sleep in the master. But we would manage fine without it. In fact, someday we will have to, I'm sure. Our finished basement is probably where guests will get relegated to. We only have them a couple times a year. My family lives 4 hours away but they don't come visit because it's "too hard of a trip". Usually friends passing through drop in.
So, for us...nice to have. Not necessary.
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Both of our families live out of town so ours gets used a lot. And when family comes it's for anywhere from 3 days to a week, so that would be a pain to either have on a pull out couch in a common space or expensive to have in a hotel.
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We've had guests intermittently so I like to have the guest room. My sister uses it the most, and it'll be nice for when my mom stays over once I have the baby.
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We do not have one now, we just converted it to the new nursery. I do miss it, it didn't get used a lot, but my mom would stay there occasionally when babysitting LO (not wanting to drive home in the dark.) Next house we will have one for sure.
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Not necessary for guests but I use it as my home office.
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We don't have one, but both sets of parents live close, so all out of town guests stay at one of their places.
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We just turned our guest bedroom into Lo #1's big girl room. All of our family live in town and we rarely have overnight guests.
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I think it is super helpful. We have had people stay in it. But not a ton. But if DH is snoring really bad, I kick him to it for the night.
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We have one now and it gets used about 25% of the time. The grandparents visit a lot. LO2 will get that room next year and we plan to put a Murphy bed or sofa couch in the office (not a bedroom). My MIL, FIL & SIL usually visit altogether so we need two spaces for them. I hate having them in the living room because SIL has a disorder that impacts her sleep and sometimes sleeps until 3pm.
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My parents live out of town and come down with some frequency (and I bet that frequency will increase when they have a grandkid to visit too). We also have friends who use our guest room with some frequency.
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Now that all the parents have moved to towns local to us, our guest room doesn't get as much use as it did, although we do have guests every few months and it's so nice to have a dedicated bed/bath. We also use the guest room ourselves; my husband sleeps in their once a week before his heavy workload day to ensure a good night's sleep, if one of us is sick we sleep in their to contain illness, etc.
The gues bath is actually connected to LO's room (which she doesn't use yet), and so it's LO's bathroom and all her toys and bath stuff is in there. That's super handy, to have a dedicated bathroom for her so that our tubs don't become filed with toys and stuff.
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My family lives out of state and we have friends visit a few times a year so it is a necessity. Some morning I go and lay down in there with the dog so DH can get more peaceful sleep.
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We have one, but not a necessity. Our kids would love to sleep with us while guests are here! Now that we are a family of 4 and some family either live in apartments or small houses, we often stay in hotels when visiting others and no one has EVEr offered to pay for our accommodations!
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It was really important to me to have a guest room. A lot of my good friends live a few hours away and will occasionally visit. And my parents live 3 hours away and like to visit about once a month. My mom has had both hips and both knees replaced and if we didn't have a real bed for them (like a pull out couch) I'd feel like we'd need to give them our bed. We also use it when one of us is sick and doesn't want to wake the other one up a million times with coughing and nose blowing.
Like @yoursilverlining: the guest bath is really DS's bathroom and it's great to have a place to put all his towels and bath toys and stuff and have it be separate from our bathroom. It's also really nice having that extra bathroom for when we have guests. In our old house we had only one full bath and it was always difficult at night to get in there with 4 adults in the house. And there was always competition for the shower too.
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we dont have one but then again we dont usually have guests stay with us. If we had a guest room I think we would use it often when my father comes to visit from FL.
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I'm a little stressed about not having a guest room this year while we are renting. Both parents and ILs live far away and come for at least a week at a time, 4+ times a year. We'll have a newborn in one bedroom and a 2.5 year old in the other, and having to uproot either/both of them & affect their routine once a month is not appealing. We also don't have an extra room anywhere else where we could stick an air mattress to be out of the way -- the main floor is all open concept.
On the other hand, friends here are renting a 5 bedroom place for the 3 of them, and that seems excessive.
I'd love to have one extra room (either a basement or bonus room or a bedroom) to stick people when they come. As it is, we'll probably ask some guests to stay at a hotel depending on the timing & length of their visit.
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Yes. I love having people stay over. Ours is a combo guest room/home office. Also, sometimes DH gets sent to the guest room when he's, ahem, snoring a bit too loudly. . .
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We currently have one that's about to become the nursery. My parents have stayed with us a few times but we'll be moving closer to them next summer so I don't think we'll really need it much after that. We might have the space, but I think it's sort if wasteful/useless to have a whole room dedicated that only gets used a few times per year!
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We don't have that many guests but when my mom comes, she stays for weeks on end! So yes, we need it. Also, we need the space. We keep books on shelves in there and use the bed and sofa to organize stuff when it's not occupied.
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When we had a guest room, it was rarely used, so then it sort of turned in to a big closet and now it's going to be the new baby's room.
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Are you my husband? Honestly, if you weren't a long time poster I would wonder. We are currently looking to buy our first house. I'm in love with this 3 bedroom and he continues to make impassioned speeches for 4 bedrooms, so that when we have two kids then we'd still have a guest room/office. We are YEARS from having 2 kids and I don't think we NEED a dedicated guest room and have plenty of solutions but he REALLY wants 4 bedroom.... arg!
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If we didn't have a guest room, I doubt we'd be able to convince FIL to visit. Plus, it's where I fold laundry. Super convienent.
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Nope - we're getting rid of ours and turning it into Xander's new room. Guests will have to sleep on the futon in the office loft now. Though we haven't had a guest sleep over in over a year, so it's not an issue for us!
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: My entire family lives out of town (by plane), and half the year my parents are a two-hour drive away. Having that room means they come visit more frequently and we don't have to deal with a hotel. It's also nice for DH and I to use when one of us is sick and doesn't want to infect the other/wake the other if we aren't sleeping well. We also live in SoCal and have had a definite increase in visitors overall since we moved here
(vs Denver, where no one really came to visit!), and this room has gotten so much use. That's just our situation, though-I'd say it totally depends on how often you have visitors that you want to host!
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How about: "No, we don't have one?"
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Both our parents live far away and come for several days, sometimes weeks at a time. In our previous rental place, we had 3 bedrooms, so when we moved LMW out of our room, guests had to sleep in the living room on an aerobed. Because of that, we have a really nice raised queen aerobed, but giving grandma (or grandma/grandpa) their own space to retreat to and close the door is really important to us. With two kids running around it can be quite overwhelming after a day or so. Plus, it's tough to relax in the living room at the end of the day when grandma wants to go to bed! So a guest room was a must-have for us in our new house. Now the room has a queen sized bed and a desk with a good desk chair in it for Wagon Sr. to use for studying. Our pack and play lives in there, too, for when guests with babies come over. It has been wonderful!!! Yes, most days it sits unused and collects dust, but we have visitors so often that it's been a huge help for us.
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@Ms.Badger: LOL, I promise it's not a conspiracy.
@LindsayInNY: that option wasn't available in the poll b/c the question was for folks that already have a guest room
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Well, geez, it didn't say that... I replied, that's all!
(vs Denver, where no one really came to visit!), and this room has gotten so much use. That's just our situation, though-I'd say it totally depends on how often you have visitors that you want to host!
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