05/24/2025
What are you doing with your spare room? 🤔🙌🏼💫
Why do we keep spare bedrooms? In theory, it’s for our beloved guests. A gesture of hospitality, a soft bed for friends and family, so no one ends up sleeping on the sofa, or worse, in bed with you. In the countryside, they’re essential: when friends and family travel hours to visit, it’s only fair to offer them proper bread and board. But in the city? The spare bedroom often becomes something far less romantic: a glorified cupboard, a holding pen for clutter, or an expensive shrine to hypothetical houseguests. I should know—I maintained one for exactly two visits in twelve months. Max Hurd talks us through what you really need in a spare room and how he made his into the glorious space: https://houseandgardenuk.visitlink.me/js8oWc
