Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Bedroom Furniture for the Guest Room


Choosing Your Guest Room Bedroom Furniture


Guest rooms provide a great and accommodating way to take care of visitors in your home. By outfitting a spare room with the standard bedroom furniture, you will provide a great sleeping alternative to the living room couch. Having friends stay over shows generosity and amiableness. Forcing a friend to sleep on a lumpy couch or uncomfortable floor, however, detracts from your magnanimity. Even the simplest bedroom furniture items are enough to turn any vacant room into a fully furnished and readily usable guest room. Here are some tips on how to maximize the available space while providing the most comfort possible to your visitors.

Try to choose bedroom furniture that is in line with the overall design aesthetic of your home. Having a guest room that is radically different from every other area of your house may be off-putting. Guest rooms are traditionally outfitted with low-key bedroom furniture. Be sure to steer clear of furniture that is excessively ornate or formal. This may cause guests to feel uncomfortable or burdensome. A low-key and casual guest room, on the other hand, will appear warm and welcoming. This is the message you want to send with your guest room, so try to keep things simple.

Be sure that that the bedroom furniture you select provides comfort and ease of use. A guest should be able to step into the room and know exactly what everything is and where it goes. An overly modern or artsy piece of furniture, for example, may cause confusion. Some pieces take style elements to an almost abstract route and are not immediately accessible. Again, the key here is to make guests feel welcome and comfortable. The furniture should feel familiar to them and make them feel that they are in their own bedroom.

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