Getting the house ready for guests Part 1

Soooo.. We had some family come stay with us at the tail end of our vacay last week. They came for my stepdad's 5-0 bday suprise luau and since we have room (AND we live the farthest away from the partay zone) they came to stay with us.

It was sooo much fun to have them here with us and we got some great stuff from my Aunt K that she brought from IOWA. (more on that in the another post)

Anyway, there were two couples coming down and at first I only thought one was staying at our house because the other couple said something about a hotel. Little did I know they were talking about OUR house as the HOTEL! ha!!

So when I realized that, I got a little nervous because we really only have 1 guest room (the other two rooms are 1)craft room or 2)office. Sooooo we pulled out the air mattress and I tried my best to make it work. To make it fun (read joke), when I found out that they had left IOWA (in separate cars) I told each couple that whoever got here first, they got the better bed! LOL

Here are the pics of the setups so you can get what I mean by "better bed"

I recovered this the night before they got here. It had florida style palm tree leaves on the seat and I saw potential, but only with new fabric! I put this in the room so that the guests could put their suitcase on it or sit. But as you see below, before they could do any of that, I used it to put their towels.

and the air mattress:

We used my craftroom as the other guestroom because the restroom is between the two and therefore made the most sense. We just moved my craft table and sewing table to the wall to get it out of the way. It was a smidge crowded in here, but it held up well.

Just because it's an air mattress, doesn't mean you have to just camp out!
I know the pillows don't 'match', but I wanted them to feel somewhat at home!
I got the little table for $5 at a garage sale and thought it could be a nice end table to put their cell phone or watch when they went to bed. As well, I used my sewing chair to put their towels. Could also be used for the same purpose as the little bench in the other room (hold suitcase)

Stay tuned for Part 2 of my guest accomodations.

by the way Team A won the better bed. Team B lost by about 2 hrs. (BUT in my opinion Team B should have gotten the better bed because Aunt D braved driving through Dallas!)

Hasta,

Adri.