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What size bed in guest room?

What size bed do you have in your guest room?  We are torn between Full & Queen.  It's a small room so queen would be tight to walk in the room but for sleeping, obviously queen would be better. 

FWIW, we don't get many guests.

Re: What size bed in guest room?

  • I would spring for the queen.  The main function of the room is sleep so you want something that will be comfortable for sleeping.  We have a full in ours because DH and I both had fulls when we got married and we stuck one in the guest room, but I will do a queen if we ever purchase a new guest mattress.
  • I have full beds in both my guestrooms. No real reason. It's just what we had (one was mine from my apt. the other Hs). They are both in great shape and comfy.

    We'd have queen if I needed too though. Little space in a guestroom doesn't bother me. I feel like guests would rather have a bigger bed than floor space.

  • if you don't get many guests and it's a small room, i'd go with the full.  
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  • We have full size in both of our guest rooms.  We have really small guest rooms though.  My parents were our only guests that were used to sleeping on anything larger than a full (which coincidentally is the same size bed that they have in their guest room), and they never complained.

    DH and I have shared a twin bed in someone's guest room.lol  We figure that a free bed is better than having to pay for a hotel, and a full is much better than a twin.

     

    ETA:  We sleep on a full size bed though, so to us it is the perfect size.

  • If there'll be couples visiting when you do have company, go for a queen.  DH and I have a king and can barely get any sleep when we have to sleep in a queen, much less a full.  We just like our space and don't like being shoved on top of each other.
  • imageTarHeels&Rebels:
    If there'll be couples visiting when you do have company, go for a queen.  DH and I have a king and can barely get any sleep when we have to sleep in a queen, much less a full.  We just like our space and don't like being shoved on top of each other.
    That is why I am thinking about putting 2 twins in the vacation house guest room. Does anyone see that as a problem?
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    imageTarHeels&Rebels:
    If there'll be couples visiting when you do have company, go for a queen.  DH and I have a king and can barely get any sleep when we have to sleep in a queen, much less a full.  We just like our space and don't like being shoved on top of each other.
    That is why I am thinking about putting 2 twins in the vacation house guest room. Does anyone see that as a problem?

    Well, as is always the problem with twins, most adults don't like them.  Will the vacation home have primarily children visiting it?  They think it's fun. 

    Plus, you'll have to buy two sets of bedding and 2 bed frames - you may not save as much money as you think you will.  If you've got room for 2 twins, you've definitely got room for a queen, so I'd just put that in.

  • We have two twins in one room and a full in the other. People aren't staying that long and it hasn't been a big deal for them to use the full for a few nights, it's a good mattress. We usually put kids on the twins and couples in the full. 
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    We have full beds in our guestroom and guesthouse because that's what we had when we got married.  The couple we have most often is my parents, but, while happily married, they haven't slept together for the last 30 years, haha, so they each get a full bed to themselves.  My sister and her husband shared the double for a week, and that was fine.  DH and I can share a full very comfortably but we bought a queen for ourselves after several years on a full.  I guess it just depends on how crowded the room is, but if it's free, I wouldn't care too much either way.

    We couldn't fit a queen in the guestroom if we wanted to.  If I had to buy something new for the guesthouse, I'd probabaly do two twins.  They could be shoved together to form a king if necessary for a couple or accommodate two people who didn't want to share a bed.  Doesn't sounds like you'd have the space for that though. 

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    Ours is a full. The room is small - 10x10. The full is pushing it; we probably should have gotten a twin. But it's big enough for two if a couple ever stays over.
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  • We have a full. I would have preferred a queen but we switched beds with my inlaws when our guest room could only fit a full. Our guests have not complained :)
  • We have kings. If the room is solely a guest room then your cguest is going to be focused on sleeping in there not living there. Get the bed that will give them the most comfortable sleep. They won't remember that the space was small but will remember if the bed was too small/uncomfortable. 
  • imagemrsbird1129:
    if you don't get many guests and it's a small room, i'd go with the full.  
    This. If you don't have guests that often, you'd probably get more use out of the space. My inlaws have a full in their guest room and it's slightly annoying, but it's OK.
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  • We have a queen in our room.
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  • imageclea:
    imageTarHeels&Rebels:
    If there'll be couples visiting when you do have company, go for a queen.  DH and I have a king and can barely get any sleep when we have to sleep in a queen, much less a full.  We just like our space and don't like being shoved on top of each other.
    That is why I am thinking about putting 2 twins in the vacation house guest room. Does anyone see that as a problem?
    Most 3 BR vacation homes in the shore town we spend our annual vacation have a queen in the master (and an en suite bathroom), a full in the 2nd bedroom and two twins in the third. So if you have two spare bedrooms, then two twins in one doesn't seem abnormal to me.
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  • We have a futon that converts into a queen.  The futon mattress is super comfy because I got it at a regular mattress store and it's about 12" thick.  My parents stay for 10 days to two weeks at a time and when it's not in use it folds into a couch so it takes up less space.  I'd go for as big as you can....your guests will be more comfortable.  I want to get a memory foam thing for the top of the futon to make it more cushy.
  • Our guest room has a full.  It's what we had, and it's a really small room.  Is it perfect, maybe not, but it's fine. 
  • We have a full size. In our previous home, the guest room was teeny tiny so we put in a full so there would be room for a dresser.

    besides, I wouldn't want my guests to get too comfortable... Stick out tongue

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  • We just got a queen in our bedroom about three weeks ago as an upgrade from our full, and it is wonderful.  Our guest bedroom has a full, though, and none of our guests have complained.  If it's not much of a price difference, however, I'd spring for the queen just because when sleeping two people it is so much nicer.
  • If the only use of the room is for guests, and you're not in and out of it a lot (say, keeping craft supplies in the closet, etc), I would go with the queen. If more goes on in there than that, a full isn't the end of the world. As a guest, I wouldn't even notice how much spare room there was in comparison to how much I could spread out in the bed.
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  • I'm wondering about this as well. We have access to both a full and a queen, so there's no cost involved in either, but the guest room we have is only 9'10', so with a queen it really would be just the bed and a narrow walking area around it. We have another spare room that we're using as an office / overflow from the rest of the house, so we wouldn't need to go in the guest room very much at all... But is that room just WAY too small for a queen? 
  • We have an ikea daybed with the pull-out that turns it from a twin into a king.  DH and I usually sleep in there when we have parental guests (so that the parents/ILs have the master bathroom to themselves) and it's really quite comfortable.

    FWIW, our guest room is essentially 8x6.  So the pull-out turns the room into one giant bed.  However, it's easy to push closed again for room to change clothes, etc.

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  • We have a full in one guest room, and a twin daybed with a trundle in the other. Both were leftover furniture from previous homes with smaller rooms than what we have now.

    If I was buying a new guest bed, I would have a queen instead of a full. We're used to sleeping on a king, so for us, even a queen seems a little bit small, a full feels uncomfortably small. I feel bad when couples who normally sleep on a king come to stay at our house and have to sleep on the full. It's doable for a night or two, but longer than that, a full wouldn't be ideal for a couple who's not used to a bed that small.

    But ... I could see making a different choice depending on a) size of the room, b) how long your guests normally stay, and c) if your guests are usually couples or singles.

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  • We have a full in the guest bedroom.
  • Full in one and queen in the other.  Most guests don't really care if they get the full or queen.
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