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Home -- Our Services WHETHER THE MESSAGE - We're coming in two weeks. "Can hardly wait to see you. Planning to stay at your place" - comes by phone or e-mail, panic can set in. You love having ugests, but how to accommodate them? Even if you relegate guests to your child's room, it can be a wonderful place to stay if you do it right. The guiding wisdom for creating a comfortable guest room in any space, according to bed-and-breakfast (B&B) owners, is to think about what you like when your're on vacation and do your best to reproduce that experience in your home. "Create a refuge and pay attention to the details", advises Brad Cunningham, owner with David Godfrey of the 1908 Edwardian-style Dundee Manor (www.dundeemanor.com) in Dundee, Oregon. From the bed down to the bottled water, every detail in a guest room matters if you want to ensure visitors' comfort, ease and supreme relaxation.
"There's nothing worse than having a pillow that's too high for your head or one that's too low," says David Knowles, owner of Shasta MountInn (www.shastamountinn.com) in Mount Shasta, California. While inn owners create rooms to dazzle paying guests, it's not hard for the average howeowner who hosts family and friends from time to time to carve out private space for visitors. If you don't have the luxury of an extra guest room, clean out a couple of drawers and make room in the closet so guests have somewhere to unpack their clothes. If that's not possible, affix a rack to the door for hangers and offer a foldaway luggage rack for easy suitcase access. Remove any clutter that might make your guests feel shoved in a corner, such as toys, breakables or collector's items. "I furnished (my) rooms simply, clean, without tchotchkes," says Knowles of his 1904 mountain-view B&B. "I wanted it to be the kind of place that evoked the air of visiting a cousin or an aunt-a homey feeling." Cunningham and Knowles suggest creating a cozy seating area if there's space. A couple of pleasant chairs and a small table are enough to provide an area other than the bed and lingering. "Make them feel that if they want to sit and read a book, they have a cozy place to do so," says Cunningham. And while you're at it, offer some reading material-current magazines or well-loved paperbacks (short stgories are better than novels, so guests can finish a tale or two during their visit). Little things make all the difference:
Allow guests to satisfy between-meals hunger without badgering you. Arrange packaged snacks, bottled water and, in the morning, coffee and tea from a hot-water crafe for early risers. "If you have consistency and passion about hosting someone in your B&B, they will feel special and that they are in a spcial place," says Cunningham. "We have repeat guests who say they keep coming back because they like the relaxed atmosphere, the comforts, the nurturing-just the general warmth they feel through the house. It's a genuine refuge. And we get that because we pay attention to the details." {Lynne Meredith Schreiber, www.yourppl.com, is a Detroit writer, publicist and blogger (www.lynneschreiber.com/blog/).}
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