A Simple Guest Room

This room is part of the Style Your Home Virtual House Tour

I’ve happy to have connected with the amazing DIY bloggers at Mrs Mama Online, Helping Hunny, and Two Feet First. After seeing everyone’s beautiful room reveals we knew we needed to share them. I am excited to take part in this virtual house tour and showcase my simple guest room! It is an honor to be associated with these talented women. Please join us in checking out a different room at each blog and leave a comment for them about your favorite part. Don’t forget to pin your favorite ideas so you have them at the ready for styling your home.

A Simple and Inviting Guest Room

I have recently finished decorating the guest room in my house. It was a project close to my heart, and one I wanted to complete by myself. A guest room should be inviting for your overnight visitors, as well as comfortable. It is more than just a place to rest their heads. It is a home away from home while they travel.

Related: Creating A Welcoming Guest Room

This room has been fondly nicknamed the Hotel Houk. It’s the little details that pull this room together and make it a holiday getaway for my guests. There are areas where I splurged as well as areas where I saved money. I’m fortunately able to put time into creating decor projects to save money, that’s my investment tradeoff. The focus though was on the overall feel of the room.

Details

Big BIG Bed

The main feature of the guest room is the big Sealy king size bed we have in it. It is the biggest bed in my house, and it adds that extra bit of luxury to the room. It is the splurge item in the room, along with high-quality bedding. It’s great for when a single visitor comes for a stay or for a family.

Cozy And Warm

Since the guest room is located in the basement, I wanted to make sure it’s as warm as possible. That also means making it not feel like a room in the basement. This electric fireplace is multi-purposed as it functions as shelving, ambient lighting, and heat. This would have been a splurge item, except it was relocated from another room. It pays to shop your own house first my friends!

The area rug fills the main walking space with a fun pattern. Area rugs help to anchor a room as well as provide warmth underfoot. The flooring is a luxury vinyl plank, which is great for damp locations but can feel chilly during the winter. The area rug helps to keep the chill away. This rug is from Lorena Canals and it’s machine washable, a nice perk.

Lighting

As with any space, lighting plays a big role in how a room feels. It’s good practice to have multiple sources of light. In the guest room, there’s a primary overhead ceiling lamp, two bedside lamps for secondary lighting, the fireplace for ambient lighting, and the window for natural light.

The primary light is nothing fancy, just a flush ceiling lamp. Since the suspended ceiling lowers the ceiling height, a flush lamp keeps our tall friends from hitting their heads on the light. It’s all about comfort right? The bedside lamps are second hand from a local buy and sell group and work great for this simple guest room.

WALL SPACE

I love art and how it can transform a space. I have a mix of styles and prints throughout the house. Some are originals and others are canvas prints. Don’t be afraid to mix styles in the same room. In this guest room, there’s a mix of photography, canvas art, and DIY signs.

The canvas art above the bed is from Walmart and was the perfect size for the bed. It was cheaper to get this print than to get a large enough canvas to paint my own art. And this one has sparkle which is always a bonus in my eyes. The side walls display a building sketch and wildlife photography by different artists to really mix up the art styles.

To further emphasize the welcome, a trio of diy signs saying Be Our Guest are hanging above the fireplace. There is also a matching guest room Wifi Password sign for that vital information. A simple and sweet mixture that all work together and play off each other’s colors. When you sign up for my emails you also get access to my printable library where you can download my Be Our Guest signs and the Password sign for free.

It’s The Little Things

I always keep a basket of fresh towels right in the guest room. This way my guests don’t have to go searching for them. Or feel like they are asking for permission to go wash up. They have free access to these towels at any time of the day or night. These blue towels are just for the guest room so they don’t get mixed into the linen closet and are returned to the guest room basket.

Along the same line is another basket with an assortment of travel-sized toiletries. This includes common toiletries that may have been forgotten in the rush of packing. Living in a small city means my guests can’t just run out to a store after 9 pm to pick up a replacement toothbrush. By covering the basics my guests don’t have to worry about finding an open store at night and can get through until the morning to pick up anything else.

The last piece I added to the room was a suitcase stand. For a while, it has been my dream to add a stand to the guest room and so it became the ultimate “final piece”. I wanted a place for guests to set their bags other than the bed or the floor. After some searching, I found this simple but sturdy suitcase stand on Amazon. At 30″ wide it perfectly fits the space by the fireplace. Most stands are wider to hold full-sized suitcases and would not fit. But it makes a difference in the functionality of the guest room! It is little features like this that add up.

Home Tour

That’s the end of my simple guest room tour. I hope you enjoyed it and gained some inspiration. Please comment below what your favorite part of the guest room is!

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