Tricks For Making Your Guest Room Luxurious For The Holidays

Whether you have someone staying for a single night or over the entire holiday season, a well kept guest room is a must. Making the guest room a place to relax sets up the excellent experience you want for your guests.  Here is a good checklist for how to set up that room.

Having a well laid out  and carefully considered guest room can often help make your guests feel more welcome in your home, and can make their stay just a little more comfortable. It helps them to focus on the things that they came over for, spending time with you! So, here are some good ways to help change your dusty old spare room into a place fit for any guest.

Let’s start off with sanitization items. Between the new COVID variant and the general germs that tend to go around during the winter, it’s a good idea to have some of these handy, especially for a guest who’s away from home.

• Extra masks, in case your guests forgot to bring any. Unused disposable masks or new reusable masks will work for this one.

• Hand sanitizer. It’s always useful to have a bit of this on hand in case it’s needed.

• Tissues & paper towels. These are items that you would rarely think about until you need them, and having them close by will massively improve your guests’ experience.

Next up, the bathroom. You want to make sure it is well stocked, not only with the essentials, but maybe with some things that your guests would need but could easily be forgotten.

• Extra towels. Always good to have a spare towel just in case, and one already being there will put many guests at ease.

• Extra toiletries. Extra toilet paper, hand soap, and even an unopened pack of toothbrushes will help a lot, and will never be a problem to have handy.

• Ibuprofen, antacids, alcohol wipes, and band-aids. Always good to have common first aid items close at hand, and these more common items are always a good addition.

A luggage rack in the closet will help a lot, especially if your guests have packed for several days. It will generally make life easier when it comes time to pack up before they go.

Now, for some of the basic life items that are always good to have in the room.

• An Iron and ironing board. These are especially useful if you’ve got a guest who brings their sunday best with them, in case they need to press out a couple wrinkles.

• An alarm clock. A small digital clock will do, but you can go for a more traditional mechanical design if it will fit the room better. 

• Bottled water. A useful thing to have on hand, especially if your guests are among the many people who prefer to drink some type of filtered water over straight tap water.

• A spare USB charger/charger cube. Try to include multiple if your guests have multiple devices. Most stores carry multipurpose cables for charging several different devices, you may consider one of these.

• A sleeping mask and ear plugs. Occasionally, you may have guests who are used to a very dark and quiet sleeping environment, and having a sleeping mask and some ear plugs on hand will make their stay a little more comfortable.

• A small heater and a small humidifier. These will be very useful for adjusting the environment of the room to your guests’ liking, helping them enjoy the stay just a little bit more.

• A note with any important info, such as the wifi password. It goes a long way to have these important bits of info written down, that way they’ve got a quick reference at hand for any important things about the house.

The final step in preparing the room is going to be to get the bed ready for your guests. Here’s a good formula to follow for it:

• Start with the mattress. Strip everything off, and if it’s been a while since it’s been used, go ahead and flip the mattress and spray it with lysol to freshen it up a little bit.

• Next, do the sheets. Go for something with a high degree of breathability, such as linen or cotton.

• The next layer should be a comforter or duvet of some sort as your “main” blanket.

• Put on two to four pillows, and we suggest using either cotton or silk pillowcases to add a bit of a luxe feeling.

• Next, fold a couple spare blankets and maybe add a couple spare pillows at the foot of the bed, in case the guests need them.

And there we are! We hope that this helps you set up a very comfortable space for your guests, and makes their stay at your home just that little bit better. If you have further tips for making the most of your visiting guests, let us know over on Facebook, we’d love to hear from you!

If on the other hand you wound up here because some of your kitchen appliances are acting up, or your dryer refuses to cooperate when trying to set up that guest room, stop off on our appointment page. We’ll get your home back to tip top shape no matter what’s going on.