Ideal Home

Room for a guest

While we’d all love a whole floor of guest bedrooms where we can tuck Great-Aunt Flo away, the reality is making up beds in living rooms and finding space for the kids to bunk down together, especially as we head towards Christmas. We asked two design experts and an interior stylist/writer just how to survive a house full of guests.

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‘Before we get into the tips, tricks and techniques, it’s worth remembering that your guests are coming to spend quality time with you and your family,’ says Claire, ‘and if making everything “perfect” is going to stress you out to the point of exhaustion and mean you can’t actually relax and

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