A Stylish Spare Room Fit For Royalty

Even if Prince Harry isn’t coming to stay, a dedicated spare room should always be fit for company, royal or not.

If you like to entertain or have family and friends to visit, it’s a great idea to have a dedicated spare room. That way, whether it’s your parents who have come to stay for three weeks (to the distress of your husband) or your best friend who had a little too much of the grape with dinner, you’re always ready to have someone stay over.

 

Make Space For Them

Even someone staying for only a night or two might want to unpack their bag and settle in. You can make an elegant statement with a cabinet. Your guests can use it to store their toiletries or whatever else they don’t want on display. A unit with drawers will allow them to put away some of their clothes too, so they don’t feel like they’re living out of their suitcase for their stay with you.

Keeping with the idea of elegant but neutral, !nspire’s Marcela Cabinet in Grey would give your guests storage and spacious drawer space, with a full 11.75” depth.

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Marcela Cabinet in Grey by !nspire

 

Shelves are always useful: keep a few interesting novels on them for your guest to peruse in the evening and make sure you leave them some space to store their tech or whatever they need to have handy.

!nspire’s Idris shelves, with their ‘stacked box’ design, are perfect in this capacity and not too large so as to work in most any space. The natural wood piece will blend in well with most decor styles.

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Idris Shelving Unit in Dark Sheesham Wood by !nspire

 

Keep It Inviting But Neutral

It’s a fine balance between a touch of your personality in your decor and hotel room neutral. You want to make sure that the space is comfortable for anyone using it, so your collection of African tribal masks might be better suited to the family room; but on the other hand, a swath of beige with nothing to distinguish the space from a big box hotel room is not going to make your guest feel welcome.

Walk the line between these two extremes by going with elegant neutral style and color scheme. Warm, comfortable with just a hint of personality. How do you achieve that? Start with the basics: the bed.

!nspire’s Uptown Bed is exactly the kind of understated look with just enough detail in the antique finish nail heads to be interesting but not so much flourish that it overwhelms.

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Uptown Bed in Ivory or Grey from !nspire

 

Be Ready For Surprise Guests

A dedicated spare room can’t become the dumping ground for the exercise equipment you aren’t using or those boxes of books that you still haven’t unpacked from the last move. Instead, keep it tidy and aired, always at the ready, and have a few things handy for the guest who wasn’t necessarily expecting to spend the night: a toothbrush, toothpaste and mouthwash kit in the cabinet, a bottle of water and a glass on the cabinet and you’ve got the basics covered. After all, Prince Harry just might surprise you…

Do you have a dedicated spare room? How do you keep it from becoming the ‘storage room’ when it’s not in use?