Spare room ideas

Avocado_Angel
Avocado_Angel Posts: 2,362 Member
edited November 25 in Chit-Chat
Hey guys I am currently in the process of re designing my bf spare room, I will be living here soon so we are trying to do something with 1 of the spare rooms. He has turned one into an office space, pretty useful I guess. But the other, it has a sofa that can be folded down as a guest bed. So I am thinking about turning it into a relaxation room, it has great views of woodlands & his back garden so it is already quite a peaceful room to be in. I quite like getting together to play board games (scrabble, monopoly card games etc) when the mood takes me so i will probably keep stuff like that up there, some nice mood lighting, plants candles and just generally relaxing things. A space to go to just chill out, no electronic stuff.

What would you turn your spare room into?

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  • km8907
    km8907 Posts: 3,861 Member
    The lizard room.
  • go_cubs
    go_cubs Posts: 1,183 Member
    Storage space maybe

    Sorry I’m no help
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    We just moved a few months ago and our house has a large "bonus room". The previous owners used it as a media room/theater. We're in the process of making it into a rec room. We're also going to have California Closets come out and install a couple of twin murphy beds so it will double as a guest room...mostly for my wife's parents.

    For now, it's going to have a large screen t.v. and we'll put the Xbox in there...my kids are still young so we have a row of toy bins. Planning on getting an air hockey table and throw some bean bags in there as well. I'm making a "gun rack" for the wall so the kids can store their nerf guns there.

    Eventually, once the kids are older, I want to put a pool table in there.
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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited April 2018
    My two spare rooms are an office and a workout room. If I move the bench out, I have a full size TV/video gaming console and gaming chairs so its 2-1 room.
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Avocado_Angel wrote: »
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    We just moved a few months ago and our house has a large "bonus room". The previous owners used it as a media room/theater. We're in the process of making it into a rec room. We're also going to have California Closets come out and install a couple of twin murphy beds so it will double as a guest room...mostly for my wife's parents.

    For now, it's going to have a large screen t.v. and we'll put the Xbox in there...my kids are still young so we have a row of toy bins. Planning on getting an air hockey table and throw some bean bags in there as well. I'm making a "gun rack" for the wall so the kids can store their nerf guns there.

    Eventually, once the kids are older, I want to put a pool table in there.

    My bf was planning putting a tv on the wall but I pointed out we already have 2 tv's so it's enough for us both. I'm kinda thinking about putting a wee bookshelf up, neither of us are avid readers but I think if I had some books up there id probably end up lifting one. I was also gona put the Xbox in there but it's fine in the living room. The spare room we have isn't too big and it will have to be multi functional so I'm trying to work round the fact it has a sofa bed in there.

    Yeah, the t.v. in there is mostly so my wife and I can watch something besides Paw Patrol in the living room.

    It's nice that the kids play in there and when their friends come over, they mostly hang out in there or outside so there aren't toys strewn all over the house. I still step on a lego from time to time though.
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  • cfgreear
    cfgreear Posts: 189 Member
    You could probably get a decent power rack, some weights, a bar, a bench, and a treadmill or some cardio type machine then have a great home gym setup.
  • DaylightDuchess
    DaylightDuchess Posts: 251 Member
    edited April 2018
    Any homeless people, around?
  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    I turned my spare room in to a gym (and guest room when needed.

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    We have 3 spare rooms...

    One is my gym
    One is the husbands man cave (with sofa bed for guests)
    One is the junk/spare room where washing lives and dries.
  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,744 Member
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    I’ve turned every extra room I have into closets. The house was built before closets were a thing so we have very little storage and I have an excess of clothing and shoes. Had to get creative.

    Similar. My spare room is my "celebrity closet" (very scaled-down version). Instead of closets though I have everything set out where I can see where it all is and it's all organized by area: workout clothes, coats / jackets, shoes, etc.
  • JetJaguar
    JetJaguar Posts: 801 Member
    I've always wanted to turn a spare room into a "crazy" room. Cover the walls with maps, newspaper clippings, B&W photos of people taken from far away through a long telephoto lens, and other things like that, and a bunch of red string zig-zagging back and forth. Ideally, you also want an unfinished concrete floor and to light the room with a single, bare lightbulb hanging down by a wire from the middle of the ceiling.
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  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    Avocado_Angel wrote: »
    _barefoot_ wrote: »
    Do you have a picture of the room so we can have an idea what to do with the room ?

    I would post 1 but atm it's full of cat beds, thier toilet box etc it's a bit cluttered the now so you wouldn't be able to get a good idea. I will clear it up soon and take a pic.

    but where are the kitties going to go? FTR I think the ultimate cat fort would be an awesome use of an extra room :)
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  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    spanish_liza wrote: »
    Storage space maybe

    Sorry I’m no help

    That's what always ends up happening with me.
  • RastaLousGirl
    RastaLousGirl Posts: 2,119 Member
    My hubby wants to turn ours into a old school video store (Like Blockbuster), using our VHS tapes that we have collected through the years. I would rather have a library.
  • NJGamerChick
    NJGamerChick Posts: 467 Member
    We have a spare room I claimed for myself. It's my dressing room and sacred space. I get ready in there in the mornings so I don't wake up the whole house. Bonus for being able to light incense any time I want, including at 6AM if I feel the need to.
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