In this lookbook, we've collected eight guest rooms from China to Spain that provide visiting friends and family a space to call their own.
Guest accommodations come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Ranging from a sofa during our younger years to full-blown guesthouses later on, putting up friends and family is made better when we have a place to put them ? no matter how small.
The houses and apartments below showcase the myriad ways an extra bedroom can be integrated into an interior, often doubling as an office, storage space or ? in the case of a Beijing apartment ? a place to enjoy some tea.
Read on below for fresh ideas on how to provide space for visitors.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks featuring brightly-framed windows, tactile and organic living rooms and mezzanines that maximise usable space.
Photo by Jack Lovel
Weeties Factory home, Australia, by Spaceagency
A deep red carpet defines this guest room in a single-family Australian home, which consists of three consolidated apartments that once were part of a heritage-listed cereal factory.
The same red was carried into a curtain ? which provides privacy from the living room below ? and a corner chair, while built-in shelving sits at the entrance.
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Photo by Eva Cotman and Maria Ceballos
Barcelona apartment, Spain, by Eva Cotman
Guests sleep atop a platform in ...