BEDROOM MAKEOVERS… STEP FIVE TO CREATING A GUEST ROOM RETREAT!

by Arizona Custom Home Builder on November 20, 2009


 5 Easy Steps for Transforming a Spare Bedroom into a Guest Room Retreat!

Fresh flowers in guest bedroom
Fresh flowers in guest bedroom

Bedroom makeovers from start to finish can be timely, costly, if we allow it, and sometimes intimidating.  Breaking bedroom makeovers into five steps or phases has been the strategy for these articles and can help simplify the makeover process.  The five steps include:

  1. Bed selection
  2. Color selections
  3. Fabric selections
  4. Guest room accessories
  5. Making your guests feel welcome

Once the guest room is set up and decorated the way you like it, you’ll want to take the last step and make your guests feel welcome. 

A few days before your guests arrive place a diffuser in the room, these seem to be more popular and less hazardous than candles for filling a room with a subtle aroma. 

The day your guests arrive, place a fresh bouquet of flowers in their room, with a box of chocolates, and a bowl of fruit.  Fresh fruit is not expensive and will last several days without refrigeration, yet if your house guests get hungry between meals and aren’t comfortable enough to help themselves to your pantry, leave snacks in the room for them.  A box of chocolates placed in the guest room doesn’t have to be an expensive box either, in fact, it could be a small bowl containing five or six of the most popular candy bars found at the local grocery.  Who doesn’t love a Snickers bar every now and then?   If you’re house guests are health conscious, fiber bars or energy bars are another option.

In the guest bathroom, fill a bowl or basket with travel size packages of toothpaste, disposable razor, deodorant, shampoo, lotion, and soap just in case one of the house guests forgot a toiletry item.

In the evening before bed, place a tray with a pitcher of ice-cold water and glasses, or in their room for any nighttime thirst.  If not, a tray, glasses, and pitcher of ice water, a few cold bottles of water would be as greatly appreciated. 

Each of these is a small task, yet will allow your house guests to feel as though they are truly welcome and staying in one of the best resorts in town.  None of these suggestions requires you to continually wait on your house guests, it hasn’t been suggested that you serve them breakfast in bed.  Each of these suggestions is a simple technique that fulfills a need your house guests may have.  If they forgot a toiletry item, you have some for them without the need to ask you.  If your house guests get hungry, there are easy to eat snacks available to them that don’t require cooking or preparation.   What a treat, your house guests will feel as though they are staying at the best resort in town.

Bedroom makeovers handled in five steps can break the process down into more manageable phases.  These five stages include bed selection, choosing eye pleasing colors, selecting fabrics, accessorizing the room, and adding welcoming details specifically for your guests upon their arrival.

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