Nursery AND Guest Room in one?

LDSJM123 · February 2016

I searched and couldn't find any similar topics. Is anyone planning on keeping a bed in their nursery for guests? Baby could use the pack and play when guests stay in that room and having a bed in the room would help with late night feedings when I'm trying to not wake up my husband and I want to be comfy.

We currently have 2 guest rooms. Occasionally, we use both rooms at the same time and it's a god send! Both of our families and most of our friends live hours away, so when we have guests, we have lots of guests, overnight, for several days. (My husband is military) I'm torn. We could just leave the bed/frame in the basement and set it up as needed (3-4x a year) or just leave it up all the time. Thoughts? What are you planning on doing?

dolewhipper · February 2016

We have a 4 bedroom. 1 is a dedicated guest room, one is a "craft room" with a day bed and then our room and nursery. We plan on having a lot of people over in the beginning, and already believe LO will sleep in the PNP in our room so BF is easier. If we have more people than the 2 rooms will allow, we will add an air mattress when needed in the nursery. I can't imagine someone wanting to sleep in that room when LO is in the crib though.

One of my friends was in a similar situation as you (H in the military) and she had a twin in the nursery for her mom when she came to help her out.

Taymiller · February 2016

We lose our guest room with this baby comes but we will do an air mattress in the nursery and baby will be in the pack and play in our room.

pourmeanothermocktail · February 2016

We are putting up a day bed with a trundle underneath it in our office for right now (both are twin sized). But, once we get nursery set up, we're planning on moving the trundle to the nursery for use for night time feedings potentially, and so we can give people more space if necessary. We have a wooden cradle for in our bedroom use as well as a pack-n-play, so I wanted to leave options open as we're 1300 miles away from most family, and this is the first grandchild. I figure especially living in prime beach location, there's a good chance of a lot of visitors after the LO is here. We're thinking to try it out as a 2-in-1 room as well, depending on how LO tolerates this and how long they sleep in our bedroom. I'm a FTM so we'll see how it goes too!

agradi · February 2016

We have one in what will be our nursery, although the we need to get a frame for it. It will mostly be for me when the fiancé needs to get up early for work and I'm up and down all night for breast feeding and such.

stillcozy · February 2016

We live In a two bedroom apartment so our office guest room will be turning into the babies and guest room. We currently don't have a bed for our guests and my in laws bring air mattresses so we will make it work

PugsandKisses · February 2016

Our "office" is the play room and has a couch with a Queen size bed. My family all lives here, but my Inlaws do not. We live in the tiny room.

thebigoaktree · February 2016

We have a 3 bedroom, once my brother moves out in July we might convert that to the new guest room, but the current one is going to be just LO's.

PinkLady2015 · February 2016

sounds like a good plan to me...

Kannerush · February 2016

I'm probably also going to have a 2 bed apartment situation for the first year, so we will have to try make the spare room dual function between baby most of the time, but also allowing for the odd sleepover. We will just have to be economical on space somehow.

I don't even know where I'll be living yet because I have to first pack up my existing house and life, emigrate cross-continent and then find a new place to rent with my fiancé! Eek! Fun times.

*edited because I can't spell right now.

[Deleted User] · February 2016

We are moving into a 2 bedroom apartment in about a month, so bedroom #2 will be our nursery, and we plan on using an air mattress for guests and moving baby into our room in the pack & play. We're hoping to buy a second bed eventually though and just keep it in the nursery-I would love that for late night feedings!

owens0410 · February 2016

This is what we are doing! We have a 3 bedroom home so nursery/guest room will be one. In the room we will have a daybed for guests when they come, the baby's crib, a rocking chair, and a dresser. It won't be overly crowded and it just makes sense to us. The baby won't even sleep in the crib for the first 6 months probably because he'll be in our room and at about two years old he will move into the bottom bunk of our other son's room. Then the guest room may become guest room/play room.

PinkLady2015 · February 2016

https://decorativebedroom.com/nursery-guest-bedroom-combo-design-ideas/

abpl2014 · February 2016

We have a 3 bedroom house and one room is my husbands office since we works from home. We are going to move the twin bed into his office and move the futon into the nursery so we still have room for 1 person in the office and could have 2 sleep in the nursery and we would move baby into the pack in play if we have guests in the nursery.

ladythrice · February 2016

That's exactly what we did with DS when he was born. His room was initially one of our two guest rooms so we just kept the extra bed in there. His room was used more as a guest room than his room for the first 6-7 months of his life because he stayed in our room. After we transitioned to him sleeping in his room, if we needed both guest rooms we just moved him into our room in his PNP. It worked well for us.

rnyland1 · February 2016

We have a guest room in addition to our nursery. We also have a folding cot that we use in case we have extra guests and need to fit them in somewhere.. Also, we have a media room, which I was thinking of exchanging out our current sofa with a sofa sleeper for those types of situations. You can always figure out some way to way to make it work.

holly142 · February 2016

My cousin has an adorable day bed in her nursery! We have a blow up bed that we use for guests. Although now that we put our 2 year old on the full size mattress, we will probably just move her to our room when we have company and let them stay on her bed. There are so many options! Good luck!

MrsRo731 · February 2016

Depends on how big the room is, in my opinion. I'd probably just get an air mattress and blow that up for the 3-4x a year you need it. If you have the room I don't see a reason why a bed wouldn't make sense, though.

Nerdchild · February 2016

We also have two guest spaces, one with a queen bed and one with two twin beds. We will be getting rid of one of the twin beds and keeping the crib and remaining twin bed in one room. I figure this can be used as both a guest space (we will have a travel crib for when someone is using that space), and also for me to bunk in the baby room if she is sick/colicky so that my husband can sleep uninterrupted (I will be SAH for about a year after birth).

ellou05 · February 2016

We are in a 1bd, looking for a 2bd. The second will be a combo office, nursery, and guest room!

PhoebeJune1984 · February 2016

We have a three bedroom: our room, DD's room, and a guest room with a single bed. We will be putting a pack'n'play in the spare bedroom for baby to sleep in until he/she is a few months old, and sleeping better at night. I am actually going to be sleeping in there, so it made more sense to keep the bed in there so I am comfy too. Since I will be EP-ing and not going back to work, and husband owns his own business and wont be taking time off, financially he has to work......so he needs the sleep to function. When the crib goes up, we will be storing the guest bed, and using an Aerobed when we have guests that stay overnight. There just isn't enough room for both the crib and the twin bed in the spare room (there are built-ins that take up one whole wall, and the closet takes up the other whole wall, so that doesn't leave too much room for both, without blocking drawers/cabinets in the built-in).

If there was room for both the crib and the twin bed in the room, I would have just kept them both in there and kept the baby out when we had guests.

megstervt · February 2016

We live in a 2 bedroom home, but unfortunately the nursery isn't big enough for baby furniture (crib, dresser, chair) and the spare bed. We decided to move the spare bed into the finished basement for now. Eventually that space will become a playroom, not sure what we will do about guests at the point (secretly I hope we're in a bigger house!).

DobbysSock · February 2016

Both of the places we've lived since having DD have been 2 bedroom, so we kept a bed in her room for guests or for nights when DD has been sick and one of us stayed with her to let the other get some sleep. We recently got a twin bed for DD to transition into (haven't made the switch yet) and let my sister borrow our double bed for the guestroom in her new house, until we get a place with a spare bedroom. So now any guests we have just have to deal with sleeping on the couch or on an air mattress in the living room if they want to stay with us. Especially with the new baby coming, I want our frequent houseguests to get used to the new norm, because I won't be shuffling two kids' beds around as often as I have been shuffling DD around.

We moved from a northern BC city to an area that's a really desirable vacation destination and easier for our extended families to get to, so we've had a huge increase in visitors in the past year. At first I loved it but it's getting to be a bit much, and I don't think we'll be able to accommodate it much longer in our current house. Hopefully we can move to a bigger place this summer - we'll see!! I'd love to have a designated guest room.

whataboutscience · February 2016

I'm a terrible person and glad to be getting rid of my guest room. If you insist on staying at my house, I guess you can sleep on the couch. Of course, we live in a townhouse and the kids' bedrooms are tiny. DD's barely fits her furniture comfortably. It was a puzzle to figure out the one configuration where both her door and closet could actually open, so keeping any kind of guest room with one of the kids is not possible.

Obviously, you like having a guest room. Just keep in mind as baby gets older that it needs to be childproofed and she may eventually be upset about being kicked out/you may not want to cosleep with an older child.

PleaseSendPicklesNow · February 2016

Speaking as a guest who stayed on a futon in my baby nephew's nursery, it's a good solution. I was there to help with the baby and bond with him. Sleeping in his room made that easier. And it's great for when Mom, Dad, and baby want to cuddle up together for a bedtime story. I liked it so much, I want to put a daybed or pullout sofa bed in our baby's room. Even though we have a separate guest room!

soberkfell · February 2016

We have a 3-bedroom, with DS and the guest room on the first floor and the master on the second story. We gave our niece the furniture out of the guest room for her new apartment while making room for nursery furniture. Only house guest we ever have is MIL, and she's perfectly content sleeping on a couch either in our living room or in the finished basement. I do like the idea of having a day bed in the nursery, though, for the first few months. With DS I slept on the living room couch while he slept in the pnp bassinet next to me. I was planning on doing this again, but not sure if it would be quieter if I kept this LO in his or her own room. Plus, a legit bed would likely be more comfortable than weeks on our couch.

ncm1919 · February 2016

I am so jealous of those of you with so much space. We have a two bedroom, tiny apartment. We also both work from home. The guest room has been my closet and my husband's office. No more!

Both his office and my closet now have to go in the tiny master. I will continue to work at the kitchen table. I think we will just have to put guests on an air mattress somewhere or sofa city, sister

jenkeale · February 2016

Our rooms are too small for baby stuff and a bed, but I love the rooms from the link @PinkLady2015 posted. We have a fold out couch in the living room and an air mattress that could be put in our tiny playroom.
DD stayed in our room for the first 4 months, but after that, she could never sleep in the same room as us. If she sees us, she thinks it's playtime because she's used to her own space maybe? Anyways, no one sleeps. FX this baby is not as particular, but I'm planning on it just to be prepared.

EmT156 · February 2016

I think if you have the room, that is a great idea! You can always change it down the road if it isn't working out. We have a four bedroom house with no guest room since we have three kids already. When we have people stay here, they stay in our basement living room where there is a bed set up. I wish we had the space for a guest room!

Misterii · February 2016

I'm so glad that there are other people thinking of the same layout! Not many of my close friends have kids yet..so we haven't watched too many people make this transition first-hand. We live in a small 2 bedroom apartment and have had quite a few guests visit in the last year since we moved here.

We're planning on keeping the current bed in the guest room while my mom is here after the baby arrives and will have the baby in a pack-n-play in our room for the first few months. I guess we'll have to figure out how to put another dresser in our room for the baby's clothes but it's going to be a pretty tight fit.

Our families live very far away so when they do visit, they are going to need a bed to sleep on (unless we put them in a hotel). After my mom and ILs visit, we'll think of setting up a crib in the guestroom, selling the current bed that we have in there and switching to a sofa bed. That way when we do have guests, we'll attempt to move the crib into our room and see how that goes. I'm hoping that we move to a house with at least 3 bedrooms within the next 2 years or so!

lcking82 · February 2016

I have several friends that have done this, especially when baby is little. Becomes a little harder once he/she is a toddler!

One of my close girlfriends had a daybed in the nursery that they had intended on using for guests as needed, but she ended up sleeping in there quite a bit between naps/nights, particularly in the early months. They did not do a P&P in their bedroom, b/c her husband was a surgery resident, and he had a very odd sleep schedule. Plus, when his pager would go off, it would wake up the baby!

PleaseSendPicklesNow · February 2016

Has anyone put a daybed in the baby's room, and used it as the big kid bed when baby outgrew the crib? I *think* that's what we're going to do. With a rail on the bed at first, naturally. Wondering how it worked for other people?

Allison7 · February 2016

Right now we have a 4 bedroom set up with our room, DD's room, guest room, and my office. We have used an air mattress in my office when we needed more space and our family room couch is a hide-a-way. We will move before DD2 and the new house is a 5 bedroom, but our remodeling of the master suite will turn it back into a 4 bedroom. We will set up DH's office in the sitting area of the master suite. My office will be in the large room on the main floor that will also be the kids play room. We will still have a guest room and then the two girls rooms. The new house has a finished basement, so we are going to put the hide-a-way couch down there for when we need more than one guest bedroom. Between an air mattress in the play room, the hide-a-way in the basement and the guest bedroom we should be okay. Then when the girls are older we are thinking about having them share a room.

BostonBaby1 · February 2016

I am undecided. We are city dwellers so space is tight. I'm considering whether I can squeeze the crib and a changing table (possibly) in the guest room/nursery by moving the queen bed around.

However, the bed would stay for two reasons only. First, I love the bed and don't want to pay to store it. It's custom made so no way is it being tossed. Second, I think it would be good for either me or DH to allow him a good nights rest until the baby is sleeping longer stretches. His work requires extreme focus.

*ETA- because we are in the heart of the city, guests can feel free to stay in one of the 30+ hotels in our immediate neighborhood alone.

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