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It's the gift that keeps on giving.
Leafing through pages and pages of all the guests that have stayed over can make a house guest book the most priceless possession you might own.
If you love trapping memories onto a page and the art of putting pen to paper, then having a house guest or visitors book might become your next favourite hobby. Here’s how it works: usually it’s divided into a grid with a ‘name’, ‘address’, ‘contact details’, and then a note, where guests write usually something.
And when you’ve collected years and years of entries of all various people who’ve come into your life, it becomes quite a special book. Think of it as a bit of a luxurious time capsule, where it’s value only grows the more you use it, and the more entries you have. Here’s a roundup of our favourites.
It doesn’t get much finer than ordering a house guest book from Mayfair’s Mount Street Printers. Expertly crafted, traditionally designed, this one’s for a timeless investment that will seamlessly become part of your home, and elevate any consul table next to your entrance door.
A4 Visitors Book, £150, Mount Street Printers, mountstreetprinters.co.uk
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With it’s timeless Liberty Wiltshire print, this visitors book is already a timeless classic. Bound by it’s signature Tana Lawn cotton, it’s soft to the touch, and there’s a few nice lux details like it’s gold stamped Liberty logo on the back. It’s blank, so you can write to your heart’s content.
Wiltshire Print Cotton Guest Book, £45, Liberty, liberty.com
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More for the witty folk among you who love supporting small independent artists, Wolf & Badger’s house guest book is handmade in England by classically trained book binders.
It’s got a bit of a lizard-like texture as its cover, and lovely thick cream textured paper that’s just asking for a rather lux fountain pen to scribe on.
Guest Book (Red), £59, Wolf & Badger, wolfandbadger.com
Pop it on a table in your hallway with a pen next to it before your guests leave. Papier’s signature bold and colourfully bound books will add a bit of zing. There’s lots of options on how you can personalise this too, which is fun.
Guest Book, £55, Papier, papier.com
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Designed way back when in 1908, there’s no denying a Symthson guest book is an ultimate classic.
Medium visitors book in Panama, £250, smythson.com
