If you have a spare bedroom in your house or apartment that you’d like to convert into a guest bedroom, you’ll need some bankable ideas to prepare the room and make it feel cosy. Ideally, a guestroom should have certain similarities with a hotel room, offering a clean and private accommodation with enough space to store luggage and other belongings. Here are some of the top guest bedroom décor ideas and tips to make a guestroom feel welcoming.
Guest Bedroom Décor Ideas
Converting a spare bedroom into a guestroom means providing your guests with all of the essentials they’ll need for a comfortable stay. Check out the following tips on how to furnish a guestroom and make it comfortable:
- Keep the interior simple yet stylish
- Leave some space for a suitcase
- Offer sufficient storage space
- Ensure the guest’s privacy
- Add cosy seating
- Install the right light fixtures
- Clean and stock the bathroom
- Supply fresh linens and towels
- Consider some additional touches
We’ll now discuss each of these guest bedroom ideas in detail.
Keep the Interior Simple Yet Stylish
If you want to make your guests feel at home, use pastel shades of blue, beige, grey, or purple to decorate the guestroom. The aim is to create a sanctuary where your guests can relax, re-energise, and feel good. Avoid bright colours like red or yellow on the walls, as they are neither cosy nor relaxing. Also, consider adding a carpet or a rug on the floor to make the interior feel plush.
Since the bed is the primary focus of a guest bedroom, make sure it is comfortable, well made, and the room is clean and neat overall. Use a combination of soft, comfy pillows and throw pillows on the bed. This will help you decorate the interior and add some colour to it, and also make the bed cosier. You can add wall art or framed paintings to give the room an elegant touch, but avoid filling it up with too many personal touches. Your guests should not feel like they’re intruding on your space, or else they won’t feel comfortable in the room.
Leave Some Space for a Suitcase
Both foreign and domestic travellers carry a fair bit of luggage with them when they travel. So, it is important to leave some floor space to make it easier for them to store their suitcases. You can also provide your guests a luggage rack, a sturdy table, or a wooden bench to place their bags on in contrast to having them open them up on the floor.
Offer Sufficient Storage Space
Irrespective of how long your guests plan to stay, you can make a guestroom feel welcoming by offering plenty of storage space for the visitor’s personal belongings. Along with leaving tabletops and shelves partially empty for their stuff, you should also clear out space in the closet or wardrobe for their clothes, even if they are currently being used by you to store your extra linen or winter clothes. Ideally, empty out the top few drawers in a dresser or the bedside table, too, if you can.
Moreover, do leave a few empty hangers in the cupboard so that they can conveniently hang their clothes after unpacking. You can also install a few wall hooks behind the door or in the bathroom to hang up clothes, purses, or jackets easily.
Ensure the Guest’s Privacy
If you’re designing a guestroom, ensure that the room offers ample privacy by hanging clean curtains on the windows if you don’t have any. You can also accompany the curtains with fancy ropes or ties that can be used to drape the curtain aside during the day. Alternatively, you can choose to install blinds from the get-go to control both light and privacy efficiently. Check out the different types of window blinds in Pakistan to make your selection wisely.
A guest bedroom that does not face the sun in the morning and is in a less frequented part of the house with minimal foot traffic outside the doors or windows is also a hidden blessing for most guests, as they are often tired from their travels and explorations and will need uninterrupted sleep.
Add Cosy Seating
If you’re wondering about what every guestroom should have, it’s a cosy seating area. All of your guests might not be equally comfortable sitting on the bed, especially if they are elderly and suffer from backaches due to improper posture. Add a comfy armchair to your list of guestroom essentials. You can also couple it with a small table and floor lamp close by if your guests are avid readers.
Install the Right Light Fixtures
There is a wide range of light fixtures used in Pakistani homes. One of the top guest bedroom décor ideas is to ensure sufficient lighting in the room. Aside from ceiling lights, think about offering a floor lamp for the reading corner, a table lamp on the bedside table, white ceiling lights in the ensuite guest bathroom (if you have one), as well as a nightlight that plugs into one of the switches, for those guests who hate to sleep in the dark.
Nightlights can also be a blessing for elderly guests who might not appreciate stumbling through the room in the dark on their way to the bathroom or the bed. It can help protect them from injuries as well, in unfamiliar surroundings where they do not know which trip hazards to avoid out of habit.
You can also consider window treatments that allow maximum use of natural daylight once the curtains or blinds are opened. This will not only save your electricity bill but also make the guest bedroom seem brighter and cheerful during the day.
Supply Fresh Linens and Towels
If you want to make your guests feel at home, have a ready supply of fresh towels and linen stacked inside the room, either at the foot of the bed, inside the closet, or inside a cabinet in the bathroom. Giving your guests an extra set of bed and bath linens adds to that feeling of hospitality that you often get when you stay at a hotel. The supply of fresh linen should include bath towels, hand towels, extra bedsheets, and extra blankets in case someone feels cold.
Clean and Stock the Bathroom
Many homes do not have an ensuite bathroom for the guest bedroom. If that is the case, you can guide your guests on where the bathroom is and provide them a range of toiletries and essentials in their room so that they can carry them over to the bathroom when needed. Make sure the communal bathroom is clean and presentable at all times to make a good impression on your guests.
With ensuite bathrooms, you will need to clean the attached bathroom thoroughly before your guest’s arrival. Mop the floor, wipe the toilet seat and the sink, and make sure that the storage cabinet or shelf has space for your guest’s personal belongings. Once you’ve cleaned it up, you might be wondering about what to have in your guest bathroom to make your visitor’s stay memorable and comfortable.
Well, firstly, you can stock the guest bathroom with some of your own toiletries, including a shampoo, a body wash, a soap, and a face wash. You can add more to the list if your guests haven’t brought their own cosmetics or toiletries for use. Next, consider adding a floor mat or rug that will not only make your bathroom stylish but also be more comfortable than walking on cold tiles. Remember to add a non-slip rug that is water-resistant and ideal for humid areas.
Since your guest bathroom is rarely used, it might begin to smell mouldy after some time. Add candles, reed diffusers, or room fresheners to the bathroom to keep them smelling fresh and fragrant all the time. You can also provide your guests with toothpaste, a new toothbrush, a hairbrush, as well as a comb since these are small items that people often forget to pack in their luggage.
Consider Some Additional Touches
Now, we’ve covered the essential guest bedroom décor ideas and tips. But what if you really want to impress your guests by inviting them to stay in a luxurious guestroom? Well, here are some ideas to propel your guestroom décor to the next level and wow your guests:
- Add a wall clock opposite the bed, or a table clock on the bedside table, to help your guests keep track of time during their stay.
- Place a tissue box on the dresser, bedside table, or any other surface where it is clearly in sight.
- You can also leave a notepad and a pen in the first drawer of the side table for use as needed.
- Provide your guests a key to lock the door to their room, as they might want to secure their valuables inside.
- Place some books or magazines on a shelf or bedside table for light reading.
- Offer some snacks in the guestroom for your visitors’ midnight cravings. This could include dry fruit, as well as packets of chips, biscuits, or nimco.
- Place a bottle or jug of water in the guest bedroom before bedtime.
- Install a television in your guestroom to provide entertainment for your guests.
- Share the Wi-Fi password with your guests to help them stay connected to loved ones back home.
- Add a desk to the room if you have space and are hosting a student or a business traveller who will need a worktop.
- Leave an extension cord, a mobile charger, as well as a travel adapter in the room, especially for international travellers.
- Brighten the room using fresh flowers or indoor plants.
- Install a full-length mirror in the room, on the inside door of the wardrobe, or in the bathroom.
- Hang a new bathrobe for your guest to use as well as cosy bedroom slippers.
Aside from the additional amenities mentioned above, here are some tips to follow to make your guests feel welcome during their stay:
- Do not forget to stock the bathroom with toilet paper and fresh towels.
- Remember to tell your guests where they can find the iron and ironing board to iron their clothes before they hang them up.
- If your guests have come to stay as a tourist in your city, update them on all of the latest eateries and entertainment areas that they should not miss.
- Keep your guests in the loop about any facilities that they might be able to use for free in your housing community, such as a pool, a gym, a jogging track in your area park, and so on.
- Guests who are here to stay for a longer duration should also be made aware of any rules and regulations followed in your neighbourhood, such as no parking zones, no smoking zones, no strolling in the streets after dark, and so on.
- Let your guests know about where they can find tea, coffee, sugar, milk, and drinking water in the kitchen, so they can help themselves as needed.
- If you’ve installed a television or air conditioner in your guest bedroom, leave the remote controls where they’ll easily be spotted by your guests.
- Leave your guest with a list of contact numbers for emergencies, including your own, if they don’t have it already.
One thing to keep in mind as you incorporate these guest bedroom décor ideas into your home is that you should set up your guestroom based on how your guests would expect to be treated, but also, on how hospitable you want to appear to your visitors. This guestroom décor checklist is just to get you started on preparing your guestroom for potential visitors who’ll be staying the night, but you can always brainstorm on how to make a guestroom comfortable and come up with more guestroom essentials to add to your interior.
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