Hosting Season: Create The Ultimate Guest Bedroom
For our next hosting season feature on our blog, we are discussing the guest bedroom.
If you're preparing your home for Christmas, and the relatives, friends or family friends who'll be joining you, then there's no better way to make them feel welcome.
Make your house a home-away-from-home for guests visiting this season.
With beautiful bedroom furniture, pretty soft furnishings and useful storage, they’ll want to come back every year.
A thoughtful guest room not only provides your visitors with some private space, but it should also offer functionality.
Aside from decorating, guest room ideas have different practical requirements, such as storage, than your master bedroom.
Guest bedrooms should be inviting and welcoming spaces, but you don't want to start adding unnecessary items.
Busy guest bedroom decor will feel cluttered and get dusty easily.
Many people often spend less on the guest bedroom than their master bedroom, but that doesn’t mean you have to cut back on quality.
At Cousins, we have a range of stylish yet affordable pieces to make your guest bedroom a perfect room to retreat to for your guests.
Start With The Bed
A comfortable bed is a must, especially if your room is often used by guests.
If you can't justify a new frame, invest in a new mattress.
One of the smartest and easiest ways to add a whole new area of storage to a bedroom is by having a bed that is conducive to boosting your options.
A bed with storage options can be your biggest asset especially if space is tight.
This will allow you to maximise the storage space available without taking up any additional floor space; which is especially important for small bedrooms.
A bedstead can help make an instant visual statement piece within your bedroom and can provide a definite classic or contemporary look.
They are available in a variety of finishes from wood, metal, fabric, leather and even mirrored panels.
The dimensions of a bedstead are slightly greater than a divan base equivalent to the standard-size mattress.
Most bedsteads support a mattress on a solid timber or sprung wooden slat base, allowing air to circulate around the mattress.
Storage is mostly still available with space underneath the bed, if it’s on legs.
We also offer a Bespoke collection for our beds and mattresses.
Our Bespoke bed bases, ottomans and bed frames are all available on express delivery within 14 days.
We carry all of our bespoke mattresses in stock for immediate delivery.
We also stock the vast majority of our branded mattresses such as Hypnos, Harrison, Silentnight and Rest Assured- as buying a mattress or new bed can sometimes be a distress purchase.
Size specifications, storage options and existing colour schemes are all additional considerations that we can cater for.
Quality, durability and a beautiful design and finish will also ensure that your new bed purchase is both functional and will fit in with the style of your bedroom.
We also stock the vast majority of our branded mattresses such as Hypnos, Harrison, Silentnight and Rest Assured- as buying a mattress or new bed can sometimes be a distress purchase.
Size specifications, storage options and existing colour schemes are all additional considerations that we can cater for.
Quality, durability and a beautiful design and finish will also ensure that your new bed purchase is both functional and will fit in with the style of your bedroom.
Our Bespoke bed bases, ottomans and bed frames are all available on express delivery within 14 days. We carry all of our bespoke mattresses in stock for immediate delivery.
We also stock the vast majority of our branded mattresses such as Hypnos, Harrison, Silentnight and Rest Assured- as buying a mattress or new bed can sometimes be a distress purchase.
Size specifications, storage options and existing colour schemes are all additional considerations that we can cater for.
Quality, durability and a beautiful design and finish will also ensure that your new bed purchase is both functional and will fit in with the style of your bedroom.
Alternative Bed Solutions
A sofa bed can be useful for its dual functionality, acting as seating for either you or your guests during the day and then transforming into their bed for the night.
They can be stored in any room, and don’t take up as much space when not needed. You can find a matching sofa bed style to suit your living or sleeping space, many are available with complementing standard sofas and chairs.
An alternative option is a trundle guest bed, where the spare mattress slides out from underneath the other bed.
Both of these options are ideal for a smaller space, but it is important to bear in mind the room required and clearance of when the sofa bed is fully opened
Before buying your new bed it’s important to measure your room.
Think about the size of the mattress you will need, as well as the type of bed you would like (remember that a bedstead will be typically larger than a divan bed in relation to the mattress size), as well as the additional room you will need for your drawers to fully open.
Standard mattress and divan sizes are as follows:
Bedroom Furniture Storage Solutions
Your guest room may not have space for a wardrobe or large pieces of furniture. Or, if it has, it's likely to hide away out of season clothes until they're needed again.
Many wardrobes are available in different heights ensuring that you can find the perfect size for your bedroom.
From combination wardrobes to sliding door or hinged door wardrobes, there are various styles to choose from so you will be sure to find the best one to fulfil all your requirements.
Our Bespoke bedroom furniture collections offer a wide range of different wardrobe configurations featuring mirror and shelf options.
From the strikingly modern to the traditionally elegant, our Bespoke bedroom furniture is the perfect choice for any bedroom.
With such a wide range of furniture available, we're sure to have the ideal design to suit any style, space and budget.
From bright high-gloss to muted and matt, our variety of bedroom furniture is simply stunning.
Ranges in the collection can also be customised to suit the decor of the room, with the options of different colours or handle styles available, depending on the specific range.
There are also space saving solutions available such as narrow bedside tables or narrow chest of drawers.
All made locally in the West Midlands, you’re able to specify your ideal dimensions, look, comfort, and storage capacity. All for quick delivery.
A small desk or dressing table is a lovely touch in a guest room. Even a super slimline option will be welcomed.
These spaces provide an area for guests to lay out jewellery, apply makeup, or catch up on work with their laptop.
Ensure there is good bedroom lighting so every use is catered for, and there's a plug socket nearby for hair dryers or charging cables.
A dressing table mirror is also considered an essential piece of furniture for a guest bedroom as it allows them the privacy to get ready in their own room.
A bedside chest can take the form of many roles- it could be a surface for a stylish desk lamp and books for some people, vital storage for others or just somewhere to keep a phone within easy reach.
Clever design features such as concealed pull-out leaves are great for providing that extra room you may need for your bedside.
Having matching bedside cabinets to other pieces of furniture in the room will help to balance out the look
Bringing It All Together
It's tough to go wrong with neutral bedroom ideas, and this remains true for guest rooms.
They will suit just about any type of visitor while providing a calming and light retreat.
Introduce depth and texture with chunky throws, rustic woods and tactical rugs.
Good lighting can play an important role in the guest bedroom.
Table lamps create a warm and inviting atmosphere in the evening.
Place lamps in dark corners of a room to highlight and enlarge your space and also consider locating them near windows, which can become dark spots once the curtains are drawn at night.
Having a table lamp on a bedside can enable your guest to read at night.
Adding mirrors is the most recognisable method of introducing light and space into smaller areas.
Tall leaner mirrors will introduce a sense of height and airiness, as will any large wall mirrors.
Placing mirrors onto a wall opposite a source of natural light can help to bounce the light around a room.
Large rugs can deceive your mind into thinking that the border of the rug is the edge of the room.
They all help in grounding all your pieces of furniture together by not visually breaking up the floor space.
Another technique of tricking the mind into enlarging the dimensions of a smaller space and creating balance is by introducing tall artwork, thereby drawing your eye naturally upwards.
Used against a backdrop of neutral furniture, bright and patterned accessories such as scatter cushions, throws, rugs and artwork can introduce a focal point into any smaller room without being overwhelming.
Are you looking to update your bedroom furniture? Is space at a premium? Do you require more hanging space than drawers? The enjoyable part of shopping for new bedroom furniture is finding a style you love, and being creative with innovative or multifunctional storage solutions.
If you have further questions, make sure you ask our experienced sales advisors in-store, who will be able to help you create your perfect storage solutions whether it is creating a bespoke bed with drawers or finding the ideal wardrobe or chest of drawers