What have you done with your spare room?

crazycatlady1984

pinkteapot wrote: »

We have three spare bedrooms.

Bedroom 2 is the main guest room. It used to have our old double bed in it but we changed that to a sofa-bed when we got our new TV, and put our old TV up there with a cheapy DVD player. Gives me somewhere to go and watch a film if I fancy it when Mr Teapot is watching football/F1. Sofa-bed came from Harveys and is surprisingly comfy as both a sofa and a bed. It looks like a regular sofa (some sofa-beds look a bit naff).

Bedroom 3 is the study and Mr Teapot's camera gear storage room (amateur wildlife photographer). Has a big desk with our main PC and a wardrobe and chest of drawers.

Bedroom 4 is my library. I love books too and when we looked at houses I was looking for somewhere to put shelves. We came from a flat where my books were boxed up in the loft. This house had a whole wall of built in bookcases along one wall of bedroom 4.

There's a single bed in there too so we have a second guest room if we need it. Was tempted to replace it with a reading chair, but there are nicer spots in the house to actually read and the extra bed is handy when people stay.

Obviously the plan is for mini Teapots (hence the size of house) but it'll be tough now to give up our rooms for them. :rotfl:

EDIT: Just noticed you mentioned possibly getting a sofa-bed. I really do recommend our one:
http://www.harveysfurniture.co.uk/products/living-room/collections/paloma/paloma-2-seater-sofabed-other-colours.aspx
(we have it in what they call grey but it's not grey, it's a light cream!) If you look at sofa-beds I do think it's worth popping into Harveys and trying this one.

Hey Pinkteapot, myself and OH are in the process of moving into our new home and will have almost exactly the same set up as you Guest bedroom with double bed, office (OH is self employed and I do studying outside of work) with a desk each, TV and dvd player and a sofa bed - to be used for chilling out when OH watching football etc in living room and also as another place for guests to sleep; and 4th bedroom is going to be my dressing room / library

Same as you, with a 4 bed house would hope to have some wee ones in the future, but for the moment, all the spare room are great

Staffy, in my opinion you cant go wrong with a nice comfy sofabed - nice place for you to chill out, and always the option for guests to sleep in there when you do occasionally have them. I would say, get it empty and put a couch in and just see what you end up doing in there! chillin out reading and watcing TV would be my bet!

pinkteapot

crazycatlady1984 wrote: »

Staffy, in my opinion you cant go wrong with a nice comfy sofabed - nice place for you to chill out, and always the option for guests to sleep in there when you do occasionally have them. I would say, get it empty and put a couch in and just see what you end up doing in there! chillin out reading and watcing TV would be my bet!

Agree with this and the use will also depend on the light in the room. The only downside of my library is that it's a north facing room with a small-ish window. So I flick through books and choose books in there but it's not the nicest room we have for actually reading in.

The 2nd bedroom which has our sofa-bed is lovely and light so I'll often curl up with a book.

Spare rooms are great for one other reason... We (I) are currently doing up our master bedroom so we've had to move out. Despite the amount of stuff in our main bedroom, we've got it all into the other rooms without it causing complete chaos! I remember when I lived in my flat it was a serious juggling act anytime I wanted to do some DIY.

Slinky_Malinky

My spare room is decked out with wardrobes and drawers, plus I iron in there. The wardrobes house my clothes plus I store some of the clutter that used be dumped in the spare room inside the wardrobes/drawers - at least it is now hidden behind closed doors! The theory is my clutter will be more organised and have a place for everything...when I get around to sorting it. Currently in plastic crates awaiting my decluttering/organising mojo to kick in.

keystone

Our third [STRIKE]bedroom[/STRIKE] (ahem) boxroom is my office.

Cheers

ronaldmacdonald

We had 3 spare rooms:

Room 1 - Gym with running machine and multigym
Room 2 - Office
Room 3 - Guest bedroom

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

We have four spare bedrooms, the largest one is a lovely size 5 mtrs square this is a bedroom for visitors.
The others are smaller so we use one as a dressing room,another as a work room as I do a lot of sewing and crafts and the third we use for all our "stuff" loads of bookshelves for our books,dvds,cds a large desk where our printer,laptops etc live.We have comfy chairs and a TV in there to.Its a nice room to spend time in.
We also have two large attic rooms but they get used purely for storage.

crazyguy

I threw my spare room away as it kept getting full of dust and rubbish.

Bexm

Currently our spare room is pretending to be a dressing room as we dry all our clothes in there on racks then dump them on the spare bed!

But in our old house we had a tiny spare room andwe made in into a chill out room with an IKEA sofa bed and a PC and we painted it so it was beachy!
When hubby was watching the footy I went up there to read or watch a DVD on the PC from the sofa! Plus the sofabed still made it a usable spare bedroom.

rach-vitendi

Transformed ours completely when we removed all the junk! It's our office / reading room now as there's great natural light at the back of our house.

Welsh_Totster

We have 3 spare 'bedrooms' too. Our main bedroom is basically the whole of the attic plus an ensuite so the 3 bedrooms on the first floor are all spare (we have no kids) The smallest bedroom is my husbands study, housing a bookshelf, desk and built in cupboard where all his computing equipment is.

The second bedroom is my craft room with several bookcases, two desks and all my crafting and photography stuff in it. We have a proper self inflating queen sized bed in there should we need it for guests.

The third bedroom is a proper spare bedroom with fitted wardrobes, a chest of drawers, 3 shoe cupboards, a kingsize bed and bedside tables. Husband sleeps in there when his snoring get too much for me!

How about turning it into a reading room? with a nice comfy chair or oversized bean bag, a nice lamp and little table for a drink and a few book cases with your books in.