It's weird to imagine that you'd have a guest bedroom that you keep immaculately clean and empty, like a vacant hotel room, for 51 weeks of the year. We have a

It's weird to imagine that you'd have a guest bedroom that you keep immaculately clean and empty, like a vacant hotel room, for 51 weeks of the year. We have a guest room. It's also my wife's home office and creative space and gets used every day. When we have guests, she's happy to relinquish the space to welcome a guest into the house (it's not an imposition). Then the guests have a nice, relatively private room in a nice part of town and can hang out with us easily - a lot easier than negotiating the rather weird idea of paying for their hotel or airbnb-type rooms (which would, IMO, be a strange negotiation to have with most grown-up people we know).