My mum always said that a child should not be moved out of their room when a visitor comes... We tend to stick with this. All the kids have king singles and we have a spare room with a queen bed in it. So it's a luxury that I can say that I won't move the kids. Some visitors are fun and everyone is happy to move about but some visitors are hard work and it's already disruptive enough to have them in the house but what must it be like to be kicked out of your bed for them? Just something to think about
We have a bunk with trundle under it in the girls room - any kid visitors sleep there. We have a spare single bed in the play room and a couch that becomes a double sofa bed in the lounge. All have been used a one time or another.
We are looking at a single bed that becomes a double bed for the spare room currently. There is one at ikea that looks good.
I used to have a sofa bed and some mattresses for when people stayed but I got rid of it all because it took up too much space. Now I just tell them to BYO bedding and mattress. No one has ever complained.
At the moment we do a bed shuffle (kids get kid visitors in with them, trundle and camp beds) and adults, if more than 1 get my Dad's room.
It was never part of our plan for Dad to live with us, so he took our guest room, which is ironically the master bedroom as I hated being at the opposite end of the house from the kids..
We will be building a new house next year, and we are going to have a lounge/guest room upstairs, and we are going to have a bed that becomes part of the wall when not in use. Our visitors are often long term (week or 2 at least), so we want a comfortable bed for them, and want to utilise the lounge room at other times..
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