Provide a clutter-free space for your guests.
A guest room should be decorated to make your visitors feel comfortable and welcome. Providing an uncluttered neutral space for your guests to stay in will give them an "at-home" feeling. Before your guests arrive, remove all of your own belongings, leaving behind only a beautiful room to which your guests can add their personal belongings and feel as if they are meant to be there.
Instructions
Guest Bedroom
1. Choose a neutral paint color to apply to the walls of a guest bedroom. Neutral colors are easy to coordinate with many different fabrics and colors for the bed linens and decor.
2. Add decorative pillows.
Decorate the bed with luxurious bed linens. Use a sheet set with a high thread count and a coordinating comforter or bed spread with a simple pattern. Add several color-coordinated decorative bed pillows on top of the bed to make it feel inviting.
3. Make extra blankets and sheets available to your guests and show them where they are kept.
4. Provide a closet with available hangers for your guest to store their personal clothing. Place an empty chest of drawers in the room to give your guests a place to store their more intimate items. Make sure all flat top surfaces, such as the dresser, are cleared of your own items.
5. Include at least one nightstand in the room that will complement the bed nicely. Place nothing more than an alarm clock and/or a lamp on the nightstand.
6. Dress the windows of the guest room with long floor-length drapes or sheers in a color that coordinates with the bed linens and walls.
7. Place fresh seasonal flowers in a small vase on top of the chest of drawers.
8. A mirror can make a room brighter.
Hang a few simple pieces of art work on the walls. Add a mirror; this will not only help to brighten the room but will also provide the guests a way to check their appearance without having to use the bathroom mirror.
Guest Bathroom
9. Remove all of your personal belongings from the guest bathroom.
10. Clean the bathroom, including the tub, toilet, sink, mirror, floor and walls.
11. Keep towels availble in the guest bathroom.
Add fresh clean towels to the guest bathroom that coordinate with the colors you used in the guest bedroom. Add a shorter version of the curtains you used in the bedroom to a bathroom window. Choose a complementary color for the shower curtain.
12. Make your guest feel at home.
Provide soap and other toiletries such as shampoo and body lotion for your guests to use in their own bathroom. Add a mini vase of fresh flowers or a colorful potpourri jar to any cabinet space.
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