Our spare room!

Our spare room is used as a craft room.

There is no spare room in our house!

A succession of friends, grandchildren and adult familykeep the bed aired. It's a study, laundry room and general dumping ground in between. Never a dull moment for the poor thing.

I slept in our spare room last night due to DH's loud snoring (we'd been to a Christmas night out)!
However, to be able to get into the bed, I had to move all the (now wrapped) Xmas presents onto the floor - which I must've done in a rather haphazard manner - again due to the results of the Xmas night out !
Got up to the loo during the night and stood on them.....re-wrapping will take place (much) later today. [Sore head emoticon]

Dumping ground, laundry drying room, storage for spare cat food, cat litter, cleaning products, Christmas presents etc. There are bunk beds but I can't see the surface of the bottom one. Cats have taken over the top one.
Oh! and there is a roofed cat litter tray just to add to the ambience!

Ours is full of big toys for when the DGS visit, spare clothes and bedding, six boxes of Christmas decorations waiting to go up, wrapped and unwrapped Christmas presents, DGS1's birthday bike and accessories waiting to be picked up, a travel cot, an outgrown wooden crib and Moses basket. Oh, and there's a double and a junior bed under there somewhere. We have guests coming to stay on Thursday night, so most of it'll be adorning our bedroom by then.

I'm in the spare room . And I've made it a tip. There is only one small chest of drawers and I'm not supposed to bend so clothes are laid out on the bed settee at the end. The laundry basket is my bedside table covered in pills, notebook,tissues,creams,pens iPad and crosswords. And my picker up stick. Heap of books to read and my kindle. Yellow container for syringes and a brimming WPB. Ugh

Bed, my desk, second television. We do the ironing and dry clothes in it as well. The cat often sleeps on the bed and youngest grandchild sleeps over a lot now his mother works full time. Also the place for yoga/meditation/getting away from DH when we get fed up with each other.

I have 2 spare rooms. The cat has taken over one and the other is used for drying clothes and it is reasonably tidy

Our spare room is the largest bedroom - we don't use it ourselves because, being on a main road, it can be too noisy, especially in the summer when we want to leave the windows open and throughout the year at weekends and high days/holidays.
It has two single beds and a cot, so when DD stays, she has a bed, her dog has the other bed and DGD has the cot. It also houses spare wardrobes and chests of drawers, a couple of ottomans (or should that be ottomen? ), all of which are heavily used to store all sorts of things like craft materials, bags of knitting yarn, rolls of wrapping paper and gift bags, and power tools.
The ironing board and iron live in this room, as do our suitcases and a filing cabinet. Good thing it's a very big room!

We have a lovely trundle bed in the spare room , my PC is in there plus wardrobe and shelf unit, oh and the airing cupboard . The problem is my grown up daughter 'came home' 2yrs ago and is still there with a roomful of her belongings. So no more sleep overs for youngest granddaughter and no room for visitors, I live in hope she will find somewhere affordable in the near future so I can have my spare room back as a functioning part of the house.

No room at the inn now the family is enlarging. Someone is having to sleep elsewhere over christmas. Not too far away though.

DGD1 slept in our spare room last Saturday; I was hoping that she didn't go poking around in the wardrobe! It has all sorts of interesting things stored in there too, unused this and that, spare this, spare that.

Well, it is a spare room!

My spare room has a wardrobe full of craft materials, more boxes of the same piled on top up to the ceiling, a double bed with plastic crates underneath filled with more plus other stuff, a smaller wardrobe only half filled (so far), a large bookcase, and two chests full of stuff. Oh, and a door into the attic which is stuffed full . . .

I am not even going to mention the things I moved in there onto the bed when I was digging out the folding camp beds to lend to DD. They are only temporary.

At 80 and with 2 dogs and 2 cats pennies were getting tight. Problem solved when I took in a lodger. Now Xmas and b/days are a doddle and the rest covers emergencis ie machines breaking down. In the summer he mows the lawn and Sundays he puts the rubish out for me. It was with frightening when I started but a neighbour helped me with the inerview. So now my spare room is working for me.

That is a really good use of a spare room leesnan. I can well believe you would be a bit worried at first, but I am pleased for you that it has worked out so well - especially as he helps out with mowing the lawn and putting the bins out. I imagine you feel a bit safer too, knowing there is someone else in the house when things go bump in the night

I had my spare room decorated during the summer - after years as a dumping ground I actually got round to chucking out several items of furniture that I'd kept 'just in case' and buying a nice new storage unit, so that the room looked lovely...
Now - it's a tip with wrapped and unwrapped Christmas presents covering the bed (and part of the floor)... I console myself with the thought that it will be restored to order in a few weeks.

There's nothing spare in our house ( except maybe DH LOL).
4 Bedrooms.... all used. Mine . DH's. We have our own rooms after a lifetime of working different shifts we like our space, but there's an open invitation to visit...to each other of course not the milkman or anything !!

Then the big kids room with bunk beds, toys,crafty stuff, tricycle, car, easel and books. Then there's the little kids room with cot bed and all Nana's crafting stuff which has to be carefully locked away when little ones come in case we wake up one morning to find the baby has superglued himself to the window sill !!

The rest of the house is similarly kid friendly, with lego in the lounge , kiddy plates, cutlery , sweetie jars and snack boxes in the kitchen and the highchair, booster seats and baby wipes in the dining room ! Even the garden has kiddie chairs and picnic bench, sand pit and paddling pool !!

We seem to be back where we started 35 years ago LOL

Hmmm.....spare room.
I have a lodger in one room, I'm in another and the Wonderful Man is in a third. My son and his wife will be sleeping over on Saturday in a fourth room - that leaves a twin bedded room for my lodger's sisters or my grandchildren to stay in, a single bedroom for emergencies and a room with a double futon for emergencies involving more than one person. I also have the luxury of a storage room. The latter is a tip and really needs me to make some time to properly sort it out. During the summer we housed fourteen visitors (though I did have to share a room with the WM for a period).
Our current lodger is a delight and very much part of the family. We're finding out a lot about Malaysia from her - and more about dentistry than I want to know!!

Our spare room is multi functioned. Yes it has a single bed but also a desk with DH's half finished large dolls house on top and a plastic three draw unit with the equipment to finish the job. A large metal filing cabinet (with a pile of filing on top) all the decs brought down from the loft waiting to be used and a chest of drawers for the clothes over flow from our bedroom. This is a small box room !
DH takes himself of there some nights as he's often a poor sleeper.

Our spare room is my office - smallest room in the house, but for the last 20+ years it has paid for the whole house and everything in it, so it is also the most productive room in the house.

Oh, how I envy you all your spare rooms! Two years after my husband died I sold our 4 bed house and moved to a 3 room flat. I thought I had got rid of everything surplus to requirements, but how wrong I was. I'm still trying to get rid of 'stuff' but am running out of likely articles to be disposed of (not that there aren't lots of things that I have yet to use again, but...) ~So when DD, SiL and 2 children came for a week in the summer I had prepared by buying blow up beds - one large double and 2 single. Although it was quite an outlay, it worked wonderfully, the beds are very comfortable and inflated and deflated very quickly. The famly pulled together and as soon as they got up in the morning, the beds were deflated and put on my bed and hey-presto, a dining room and a sitting room re-instated! But recently I acquired a rescue cat who has taken up living in the sitting room so when I friend came to stay, she had to sleep on the blow up bed in the dining room and we had to eat a-la-lap in the sitting room, but it worked. But I do miss all those (spare) rooms which were all in use despite being on my own in the house!!

Oh dear Dolphin, I am now in the position you were in - very near to moving (downsizing is the term I think). I can hardly contemplate what it will be like. My spare rooms were so useful and it was full house when the family were here - happy days!

Our spare room is no longer spare. It used to be where the grandchildren slept when they stayed over, but they can`t do that now, because hubby moved in there over 2 years ago, after his first operation, and never moved out! It was also used as the repsitory for Christmas presents, before and after wrapping, but they`re now on my bedroom floor, being carefully avoided by me.
Marelli, 2 words, Mother`s Ruin??