I love having house guests. Such fun to cook for friends/family and have new personalities/energy around your home for a few days.
Here are my favorite ways to make guests feel extra special, comfortable, and more than accommodated for, during a stay in our home. Think ‘this is a hotel’:
- Add extra blankets to the bed (nothing worse than being cold in your sleep! They can always take them off if hot). I like to do it hotel-style with a sheet, then a down comforter, a blanket, and then a decorative comforter (ALSO, a throw at the edge of the bed).
- Fold clean towels nicely and place on the bed, tied up in a pretty ribbon-bow to give truly exude ‘new’ and ‘clean’, ‘just for you’.
- Frame a photo of the guest(s) in a frame in the room. (Target has a great print-from-Facebook option on their printer which allows you to pull from friends photos).
- Leave a few simple snacks and bottle of water in the room in case your guest(s) get hungry/thirsty at night, or in the morning before breakfast (personally, I am always hungry the second I wake up, which is a dilemma when I am a guest in someone’s home and I don’t feel its appropriate to run down to their kitchen!)
- Buy a magazine of your guest(s) interests and place by the bed.
- Have a chair, bench or hooks for them to place their suitcase/any items on, rather than on the floor.
- Always have a clock.
- Tissues by the bed.
- A nightlight is a nice touch since they won’t know the room very well.
- Have a light by the bed in addition to the general room light. (Reachable from the bed).
- Place a robe in the guest bathroom.
- Have hooks at least behind the door for them to hang an outfit/towel. (leaving a hanger in nice, too)
- Buy a ‘room number’ (such as ’1′) to put on the door(s). This is just super cute. My grandparents always did this on their guest room doors and I have always adored the idea.
- My personal must: A FULL-LENGTH mirror! Nothing worse than staying in someone’s home and you have to exit your room after dressing without viewing your full outfit yet!
What are your favorite, extra-special touches to do for your house guests?
A ‘duster’ [aka: floor length] robe that is actually ‘long’ on my 5’9″ self. AND it is beautiful! (As in it doesn’t look like it could be my husband’s too). So pretty that if I saw it with a LaPerla tag I’d believe it was. I’ve been wearing the robe in the mornings while having breakfast with my husband and baby, and making coffee, making husband’s lunch, seeing him off to work. All while feeling beautiful, not frumpy for not being ‘ready for the day’ yet.
(OK, I’m exaggerating. I got ‘ready’ [shower/dressed/makeup] everyday after having my baby which was a major contributor (I believe) to my quick baby weight loss).
(!Hope the title made you laugh!)
