Decorate Guest Room With A Difference!

Decor

oi-Anwesha Barari

By Anwesha Barari

Friday, July 22, 2011, 17:38

Decorating your guest room could pose unforeseen challenges. The challenges arise from the specific nature of the guest room. To decorate your guest room you need much more than just money or taste because your guest room decor could well influence your social image. You must ask yourself what you expect the guest room to look like from a guest's perspective. That will give you the key to guest room decorating ideas.

If you aspire to decorate your guest room and earn laurels from your guests, then there are certain peculiarities about the guest room that you need to understand.

1. Usually, the guest room is not as large as the living room or the bed room. As be don't use the guest room ourselves, we tend to make the smallest or the least favorite room in the house our guest room. So while decorating guest room, we are put at an disadvantage.
2. Space is the first constraint and a big one too. If the space is less then there is no point in fitting in heavy or ornate furniture as it will only look clumsy. You may want to decorate your guest room with a Queen size bed but due to lack of space you may have to write off this idea. Go for sofa cum beds or convertible single beds that can be turned into double beds while decorating your guest room. It will space space and look modern.
3. Your guest room is not likely to be used as regularly as your other rooms so don't waste your best sculptures and antiques while decorating your guest room. Don't use too much of whites in your guest room decor because it will get dirty easily and you will have to take the effort to wash more regularly than required. So save your white linen for your bedroom. You could use white or pastel colors for the walls to give it an airy feel.
4. The right kind of lighting is essential to make your guest room designs work. Harsh lightly as a rule does not work well for decorating guest rooms. Keep the lighting to a minimal by using low strung lampshades and some reading lights by the bed side to complete the guest room decor.
5. The key to decorating guest rooms well is to make it usable rather than fancy. You have to keep the comfort of your guests in mind as your first priority. Instead of buying expensive accessories that don't serve any purpose but value for money stuff that will be useful to decorate guest room.
6. You can always add a dash of aesthetics to your guest room decorating idea by having lots of flower vases and float bowls with flowers in them. What better metaphors than flowers to make your guest feel welcome.