7 Ideas to Make Your Spare Bedroom & Guest Room Beautiful

The spare bedroom needn’t be the sideshow. With tips and tricks from Antique expert and creative polymath Benedict Foley, we’ll get your spare bedroom looking beautiful once more. 

7 Decoration Ideas to Make Your Spare Bedroom Beautiful

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Benedict Foley’s Ideas for Spare Bedrooms

‘Crank up your guest rooms. I know in reality they may be the place where boxes go to live before being recycled or more usually decorated with drying laundry, but no one needs to know that! You want your guests to have a good time, so amuse and entertain them with quirky finds from the auction. It makes a much better conversation starter than who’s doing the washing up! I love things like portrait miniatures – a good looking or amusing face never goes amiss. A couple of small tables by the bed, a chair or two for people to lay their clothes out, a couple of prints in antique frames on the walls – you can buy inexpensive and charming things, but if you’ve considered the basics your guests will feel much more considered by turn!’

Benedict Fowley, a-prin.com, @a.prin.art

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