scrappert
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Posts: 7,876
Location: Milwaukee, WI area
Jul 11, 2014 21:20:09 GMT
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Post by scrappert on Jul 24, 2023 17:14:21 GMT
We only have 1 spare bedroom so really only 2. But we could get an air mattress in the basement for more if needed. And it really would depend on who we would be staying to decide on how accommodating we would be. LOL
I did choose 3-4
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Post by roundtwo on Jul 24, 2023 17:23:10 GMT
I’m used to living alone now so I’m not eating them here for long. The typo (I assume...) cracked me up.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 24, 2023 18:30:30 GMT
I’m used to living alone now so I’m not eating them here for long. The typo (I assume...) cracked me up. Maybe?
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Post by auntkelly on Jul 24, 2023 19:35:01 GMT
Our lake house was designed with company in mind. We had ten guests plus my husband and myself for several days over the 4th of July and we’ve had more than that in the past. My attitude at the lake is “the more the merrier.”
When it comes to our primary residence, I really don’t care to have guests for more than one night, unless it is our adult children. We have a pretty good setup for guests (two small bedrooms separated by a jack and Jill bathroom on the opposite side of the house from our master bedroom). I just really like privacy in my own home, so I’d rather not have any guests who stay for more than one night.
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Post by Gem Girl on Jul 24, 2023 19:48:00 GMT
My daughter has a group of friends who typically come over almost every weekend. Sometimes just one, sometimes three or four. Mostly they stay in the guest room or on the couch down in the basement. I have no issue with that, but around January one of them just...stayed. After a while, we asked him why he was still in our house. His parents were divorcing, things were up in the air, that sort of thing. We wound up kind of adopting him as a bonus kid. We have had to teach him things like how to do laundry and clean up after himself. He's just now moving out...seven months later. Granted, he has a job and we hardly see him because he was respectful of our time. I'm glad we could be here for him during his transition with his family, but I swear after this, I'm seriously considering turning the guest room into an office because I am just ready to be able to say "Sorry, we don't have room for you!" when someone wants to crash here. Great of you to have looked after him this way. Hope you enjoy a karmic payoff.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 24, 2023 20:02:01 GMT
I’m used to living alone now so I’m not eating them here for long. The typo (I assume...) cracked me up. 😮😮 yeah, it’s a typo, not even sure how having became eating. That’s not really even funny
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StephDRebel
Drama Llama
Posts: 6,668
Location: Ohio
Jul 5, 2014 1:53:49 GMT
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Post by StephDRebel on Jul 24, 2023 20:15:31 GMT
It absolutely depends on who it is. My family? We could fit 2-4. My nieces and nephews with their kids but without their parents? All 10, no problem. Other couples? Probably 4 people. My friends for a girls weekend? No limit but the most I've had is 16.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 24, 2023 23:20:15 GMT
I voted Oprah because it would depend on which house we’re talking about. At my house in the city, we could accommodate 2-4, up to two in the guest room, up to two more on the futon in the living room. If I absolutely had to, we could also put up to two more in DD’s room and put her on an air bed in the bonus room behind our bedroom. At the lake cabin it’s a different story. We can easily host up to five in the guest room alone, and could put two more in DD’s room if they didn’t mind bunking together. Our guest room has a king, a queen and a twin, DD’s room has a queen and a twin. Our master has another king bed but we’re not sharing, LOL. If we needed to put up more people we could put a queen air bed in the media room and another in another big lower level room that currently just has a bunch of tables and chairs in it but the people in that room would be getting up REALLY early because we don’t have curtains on the windows in there and it gets the morning sun. And technically someone could sleep on the basement couch too, it’s fairly comfortable. The main floor couch isn’t comfortable to sleep on. I think that perhaps people are more willing to put up with more people when it isn't their primary residence. My son looked at our company this weekend and said, "Yeah, your home is not kid friendly, that's for sure." I said, "Yeah, you're 27. I feel like you've outgrown that stage." I did shut my scrapbook room and people stayed out of that bedroom. For me it’s more of a space issue vs. a who it is issue. Our house is bigger than our cabin but it’s not really set up in a way to be able to comfortably host a huge group of people. We have one guest room at home but it’s not huge like our guest room at the lake. I’m not going to kick my kid out of her room and I’m not giving up my own bed. I would be willing to let someone sleep on the opened up futon in the living room although it wouldn’t be ideal. While we do have three bathrooms, one is our ensuite and I wouldn’t want people walking through my bedroom to get to it. So that leaves DD’s bathroom on the second floor (which isn’t horrible to share with 1-2 guests staying in the guest room), and the main floor 3/4 bath, but how many people would really want to shower in there and walk back through the house to the living room with the futon? A kid might not mind but I bet most adults wouldn’t love that lack of privacy. At the lake cabin it’s different. The guest room and second full bath are both on the lower level so there is somewhat more privacy with that setup. My primary goal as a host is providing a comfortable place where people can retreat if they feel like it. At our lake cabin they would have that. At our house it would be less so, especially if you start adding a bunch of people.
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