Prepare a Welcoming Guest Room

When guests come to visit, you want them to feel not only comfortable, but also welcome. They need fresh sheets, clean towels, and maybe even a midnight snack. Here are a few guest room amenities that show guests you’re happy for their company.

| Posted: 27 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

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• Cord and Coil Throw

  

  You know that needlework throw you’ve been working on for three years? This one’s done.

  $148 at Anthropologie | Buy

  

  | Posted 24 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Petite Vases

  

  A place to display kid-plucked dandelions, or a big, welcoming bloom.

  $7 at Zanisa | Buy

  

  | Posted 24 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Arcadia Votive Duo

  

  $16 at Mary Ink | Buy

  

  | Posted 23 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Therapeutic Pillow Mist

  

  It can be disconcerting to sleep on a pillow that smells like someone else’s house. This fun spray gives guests a pillow-smell option.

  $12 at Basic French | Buy

  

  | Posted 23 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Adjustable Metal Table Lamp

  

  $25 at Target | Buy

  

  | Posted 22 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Kimono Flower Note Cards

  

  Leave these out so your guests can write home about your impeccable hosting skills.

  $12 at Give Simple | Buy

  

  | Posted 22 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Complete Hotel Amenity Set

  

  The same set you’d find in a luxury hotel. Perhaps this will make up for the lack of doorman, room service, and spa treatments.

  $36 at L' Occitane | Buy

  

  | Posted 21 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Super Soft Robe

  

  You don’t want to see Aunt Rose’s pajamas.

  $70 at Give Simple | Buy

  

  | Posted 21 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Cora Carafe

  

  $10 at CB2 | Buy

  

  | Posted 20 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Hargreave Carafe

  

  $120 at Clio | Buy

  

  | Posted 20 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers

• Melamine Tray

  

  A tray gives guests a place to stow their little things, and an easy way to cart them around. Now they can move their cookies, milk, travel clock, and book from the reading chair to the bedside in one swoop. Or they can easily find their wallet, keys, and phone where they left them.

  $18 at Design Public | Buy

  

  | Posted 20 Oct, 2008 by Melissa Summers