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Roomorama Helps You Find a Place to Stay

Scenario 1: you've got relatives from near and far coming to Los Angeles for the holidays but your apartment runs on the "cozy small" side. Scenario 2: you're traveling to city X to visit friends or f...

The Rule for Guests: How Many? How Long?

Summer's the prime time for visiting friends and for them to visit you. But, as my grandmother used to say when my family would visit her, she was happy to see us come and she was happy to see us go....

Apartment Therapy On: Unexpected Visitors

Because we work from home, we're much more likely to have an unexpected visitor than our office-job counterparts. And while we're always prepared for unexpected guests, friends don't drop by every da...

6 Tips For A Cinco De Mayo Celebration At Home

Celebrating Cinco De Mayo calls for friends and family so invite your friends over for a little party. After the jump, check out a few tips to enjoy a fun and fabulous Cinco De Mayo party at home....

Roundup: Best Hand Soap To Impress Guests

Perhaps it's a case of the grass always being greener, but it seems that whenever we go over to a friend's house and use the bathroom, their hand soap smells better than ours. Maybe theirs is more ex...

Amy's Great Ideas For Guests

It's often a simple expression that makes guests feel welcome when visiting from out of town. Amy of On Bradstreet understands that concept and adds some thoughtful touches to make visitors feel at h...

How To: Fake a Clean House
Real Simple

Our new year's resolution included having people over more often and while we definitely have upped the frequency, we'd like to be hosting people a couple times a month instead of once a month at best...

Look! Compact Furniture For Overnight Guests

It's always nice to be welcomed into someone's home as a guest. When there's a cozy bed, a nightstand for a book and a glass of water and the space to put your bag down and unwind, you feel at home. ...

What Guests Can Teach You About Your Home

Most of the time, we're happy with our home. Oh sure, we're seriously contemplating a change (which will happen as soon as we find the right coffee table), but most of the time it works. And then, w...

Roundup: AT House Guest Advice
Austin

Facing a slew of houseguests in our own future, we had planned on writing a post chronicling what we felt were the top five elements needed in a guest room. We realized we've already seen a ton of gr...

Hosting Large Groups at Home: How Many?

We hope you enjoyed a festive Thanksgiving yesterday, like we did. We had a wonderful time with our aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews at our cousin's lovely modest sized Palos Verdes home ove...

No Dining Room? No Problem!
Other Places In Your Home To Have A Dinner Party

[While we love this dining room set up featured at the DIFFA event, most of us in small spaces don't have a dining room to entertain our guests.] One of the rooms that most smaller apartments and some...

How To: Always Be Prepared For Unexpected Guests

Thanksgiving, a dinner party, an out of town guest is one thing. You know in advance how many people are coming over beforehand and have days, even weeks to prepare. But, what about the friend who c...

What Are Your House Rules?

Last night, like thousands of other households across the nation (if not the world), we invited our closest friends to share in some food, spirits and to watch history unfold on 92" of glorious high d...

ATLA Survey: How Often Do You Have Guests?

We have a friend who's always having people over. Whether for they come for meals, to just hang out, for a party or a sleepover, her house is always open. Some things are meticulously planned, some ...

Gradin Road Westport Sofa

When you have a small space, the option of opening your home to overnight guests can pose a challenge. An Aerobed must be stored in its off-season. A foldout sofa often demands that you rearrange th...

Best Air Mattress: Aerobed

There is a clear winner here at AT in the category of Air Mattresses. Thanks to everyone who chimed in about how to put up guests without having a guest room when you also don't want to ask them to...

ODDA guest bed with storage at IKEA

The other day, Laure's post about what to do if you don't have a guest room, brought out a bunch of great ideas. Here's another one we saw recently at IKEA. The ODDA guest bed is sort of a modified pu...

No Guest Bedroom, now what?

[We'd love to be able to offer this to our guests]We've never had the luxury of an extra room devoted to guests. When family and friends come to stay they used to get a daybed mattress on the living ...