The Trick To Making A Guest Closet Feel More Welcoming

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Having guests stay is often a nice experience, but hosting can also be a lot of work. You feel the need to make sure everything in your home is in its proper place. You want the entire house to feel clean and welcoming. Your guests are away from home, living out of a suitcase, and that can be hard. You want your home — and especially the room they're staying in — to feel inviting. This includes making sure your visitor has a closet that doesn't make them feel like they're imposing or digging through your belongings. A welcoming guest closet is clean and empty of your own clothing and personal items. It's also full of essentials a guest needs to make their stay more enjoyable.

A guest closet ensures guests don't have to live out of their luggage when visiting your home. Remove any hanging clothing and accessories and make sure the shelves and floor are cleared of items. There should be lots of space for your guest to store their own clothing, shoes, bags, and more. A guest closet shouldn't be completely empty, though. You can include items helpful for your visitors, like a selection of good-quality hangers. While there are hanger types for every item of clothing, you don't need to provide them all. Have regular hangers for shirts and dresses, plus pants hangers. If you want to do a bit more to make your guests feel welcome, you could also include some items they may forget to bring. You can also add things they don't have room for in their suitcase.

To make every guest feel welcome in your home, consider including certain items in their closet. Take inspiration from high-end hotels and hang a bathrobe on one side of the closet rod. Few people have room in their luggage for such a bulky item of clothing. Sticking with the bathroom theme, fill the shelves of the closet with fresh towels and washcloths — enough for the first few days of their stay. Add in some extra blankets and pillows to give your guest control over their sleeping comfort. Other nice-to-have items include a hairdryer, a small basket of hygiene products (just in case your visitor has forgotten something), and maybe even some packaged snacks.

Think about the items your guest may not be able to pack, but could need while visiting your home. If the closet is on the larger side, you can set a luggage rack up inside. The Smuxee Fully Assembled Walnut Bamboo Luggage Rack folds away when not in use. Include, too, a compact ironing board and clothes iron. You can hang this Zoes Homeware Mesh Panel Tabletop Ironing Board on the back of the closet door. If there's enough space in the closet, you could also hide the eyesore of a laundry hamper behind the door by hanging it on hooks. It won't take up space in the room, and they have somewhere to put their dirty laundry. Add a small waste basket for non-food trash.