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I have been watching a lot of home shows on HGTV and it has gotten me thinking. Do you have a guest room, and if so does it function as something else (family room, home office, play room, etc.) when it is not being used by visiting guests? How much clean-up and/or rearranging do you have to do before guests can use it?

None of our family or childhood friends live in WNY so a guest room was a must for us. (In fact, we often have our kids room together when guests are here because we usually need two guest rooms.) Our designated guest room also doubles as my craft room. It's a place where the kids and I do crafts, or I do crafts alone, I wrap presents, or I store things that haven't been put away yet. When I need it as a guest space I remove the kids' craft table and rolling craft carts and open the fold-out couch, which becomes a double bed. If the space is already neat it takes me about 20 minutes to get it ready for guests. If it's a disaster, well then it takes me half a day. I really should keep the craft/guest room neater.

We have a guest room that has its own bathroom.We don't use it for anything else but it is used atleast once a month by family or friends.I clean it once a week just so its ready to go.

Since it's just two of us now, we have two rooms that could be considered 'guest' rooms. One room (the Windsor Room) is ready for guests at any given time. It's not used for anything else. The other room (the Peanut Gallery) doubles as the computer room/'office'. ( I put the ' ' around the office because that room was only used for the computer room until I retired. When I became involved in public service, I needed space for materials from that). It can be made ready for guests in less than an hour. There is a trundle bed in there that can be used as two twin beds or put together as a double bed. (and both rooms have free DirecTV as well)

Well, we have a "spare" bedroom. I wouldn't call it a "guest" bedroom because there's no bed in it LOL. Currently we use the 2 closets in it for extra storage and have our treadmill and weightbench in it. If we ever have another baby, it will become their bedroom.

I don't have a guest room (too many kids/not enough space for that! lol), but I would love to have one. Next house in my lifetime will have a guest room!

We do have a second bedroom, but since we rarely have guests, I wouldn't necessarily call it a guest room. There is a bed in it, but it is covered with all kinds of stuff. I've also moved my dressing table into the spare room to make more room in my bedroom. If we were to ever have a guest, it would take some serious cleaning up in there!

We used to have a guest room, but it was only used 2-3 times per year, so we felt we were wasting the space and turned it into a home office for my husband. We were going to put in a sofa sleeper for guests in there, but on the advice of a designer, bought a inflatable bed which folds out into a queen size bed with a frame and everything (pretty comfortable, too) and then deflates into a suitcase when you are done. Now, when we have guests, we put it in the kids playroom, but really, could put it anywhere. All we do is put the toys in the storage closet and we can turn it into the guest room pretty easily. There is a TV in there and it is right next to a bathroom, so it works out really well.

We have a separate guest room and an office with a pull out sofa that serves as our back-up guest room. Since most of our family lives far away, the guest space is a must have. The second room gets used almost as much as the dedicated space. The only down side of our current arrangement is that our dedicated guest room is on the second floor. In our next house, we are searching for a place with bedroom downstairs (possibly with an en suite) to make it easier for our guests to use.

You would think we would have put in a guest room when we built the new house but we didn't. We put in a den instead which doubles as my husbands "man cave" he has his desk in there and no one else really goes in there unless we have people over then the guys will hang out in there. There is a couch that turns into a bed so that could be used. The only people that have spent the night are other kids and my sister. The kids sleep on an air mattress in the kids rooms, and my sister sleeps in the living room on the couch. If we did have family stay we would set they up in the playroom in the basement that would work.

Guest room? No... I hardly have enough rooms for the people that live here! Someday... (A girl can dream!)

Yes, we have a guest room, though the most frequent guest is my hubby. ha! He loves to crash in that room somehow. So, whenever I get a project going in there, it is trampled on or shoved aside. My goal this summer is to create a home office space there for me, while maintaining the crash-pad for him. Looking for a small desk and bookcase maybe. A trip to Ikea may be in our future. Though I saw a nice set-up on crateandbarrel.com that is lovely.

Our guest room has a full sized bed, a small desk, an armiore (sp?), and a dog cage in it. It's packed! My husband uses the room for getting ready in the morning, too. Lately the only person that visits is my father in law, so now my daughter calls the guest room, "papa's room". :)