Our spare room!

number - that's how we first met, isn't it - it was my old username for a different forum! A lot of water (not gin!) has run under the bridge since then! And yes, it was all the fault of Mother's Ruin!!

DH and I are currently sleeping in the spare room as a builder is knocking seven bells out of our shower room and refitting it, so he's coming and going through our room. We find the bed is quite comfortable and we get a view of the garden without leaving the bed so we can watch for early morning herons attacking our fish. We do have to be up and about a bit earlier than usual so that we have finished in the bathroom (also involved on the refit) before he arrives to start each morning.

When we moved to this house, i had big plans for the spare room; it would be a craft room, a place to paint, to make rugs, house my fly-tying station; there would be nice music! No tele! A bottle of wine and one glass! A pipe dream of course. It is now full of laundry baskets, filing cabinets, boxes of old photos, pictures we can't find wall space for, books no-one will ever read again, the ironing board, fishing equpment...... Oh, and a bed!

A few years ago I contacted YMCA supported lodgings and they sent me a succession of young people ( between 16 and 23) to stay in my spare room. Some sad stories of course but no bad experiences for me. A great way to stay in touch with a younger age group while waiting for my first grandchildren to arrive and also to make a little money.

I like to think I have two spare rooms but GC would disagree, they are their bedrooms. Eldest has room with big bookcase and boxes of Lego, youngest has room with bed that has cot sides fitted and doll's cot and pram parked there. I have GC's gifts ready for wrapping in one room and they will be hastily transferred to study, with lock, if they come to visit.

Spare room 1 double bed, single bed, cot, fold up bed, toy storage box, books.
Spare room 2 used for DGSs staying frequently, 2 single beds, children's books, toys.
Spare room 3 laundry drying and ironing, guest beds covered in laundry, desk covered in paperwork to be sorted....sometime, with HUGE unnecessary swivel chair, 2 printers, printer paper, detritus from my desk cleared out when I retired 9 years ago, books.
Spare room 4.....husband's mess work room, books. Don't even go there!!
Dining room full of detritus from DD3 move which may or may not be thrown out, detritus from our kitchen replacement which may or may not be thrown out, toys which may or may not be thrown out, 2 tables, piano, hostess trolley (yes really), drink, large heavy dresser containing God knows what but I do know that the ashes of 2 cats are there awaiting burial.

See a pattern?

I have 4 spare rooms .
One is designated GC's room, 2 beds + put-u-up and full of toys... 2nd (DD1 old room) big double bed and I do the ironing there so I can gaze out over the sea; 3rd (DD2 old room) is just a spare bedroom with another big double bed; 4th is a general dumping ground for anything and everything, notably a desk, printer, filing cabinet, boxes of heaven knows what, a piano, a couple of chairs and hundreds of books... All the bedrooms have wardrobes full of my clothes, which I may or may not fit into again. DD3's old room is downstairs and is now a dining room, which may as well be a spare as I rarely use it. Not sure I could ever manage to downsize

My spare room or 3rd bedroom is my dump it or chuck it room. Mainly full of books and toot. When one of my 4 grandchildrent wants to stay over its a nightmare finding somewhere to put the stuff. I also keep big black bin liners in it so I can fill them with charity shop stuff.

Are you sure you haven't just been looking round MY house Algeswife ? That's exactly what my spare room is used for with frantic rush to clear when a GC comes to stay.

My spare room is where I put everything I'm not using or wearing at the moment. And of course I can never find anything. It would be easier if I wasn't storing several boxes of 'stuff' for my oldest GD 'until she gets her own place' and she doesn't seem in a hurry to move out of her dad and stepmum's house! Oh there is a bed there somewhere under the growing pile of 'things'.