Guest Blogger: How to Prepare your Home for Holiday Guests

Guest Blogger #284, Entry #812, December 4, 2011

Once a while all of us turn a host to a friend, relative or make some dinner invites to our work friends, friends of other people dear to us. Anytime we do this we are keen to let them experience our elaborate hospitality and we are always delighted to keep and see them happy. Let’s say if you invite someone to your home for a dinner, you will really be sure to make tastiest dishes, arrange your living, guest area, dining and tidy every part of your home or at least the social part of your home.

Entertain your holiday guests with no worries

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Preparing your home

But is it only the taste of the food you serve or tidiness of the space you are with your guest while you receive them.  Then you have a nice old time chatting, enjoy your meal and sit relax sipping that exquisite wine you got. What I’m trying to tell you is that it’s not these things alone you should be doing, if you want to be a good host. There are of course few things all of us forget, not purposefully, but we don’t actually give a thought about such things. I could find many who would forget about the guest bathroom, any guest could use this anytime when they are at your place, even they are there just for the dinner. But if they do have payed a visit to stay a couple days, you should be sure that you tidy up your house in full, clean up any mess you got anywhere and be sure to arrange the guest room and don’t forget the bathroom as well.

Guest Rooms

Guest rooms we all got would just remain dormant, until only a guest arrives we might only think about such a room existed in our place. If you dust and tidy up your rooms on a regular basis, this is okay that you won’t be leaving your guest room unclean. So when a guest arrives, not much of cleanings you would need to find it beautiful. Now that you have a guest and you need to make some warm welcome for them and ensure that they be happy throughout the stay.

Prepare for your holiday guests

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Guest Bathrooms

Clean the room, dust and change the bed spreads, pillow covers and let it look warm and welcoming. Now in most cases as the guest rooms are not used often, so are their bathrooms, you would want to do more of checking in there. If unused for quite long, you would want to do some good cleaning and check for damages or repairs.  Check your guest bathrooms and see if all fixtures are working good, check your bathroom exhaust fans, heater, plumbing or other accessories working good, change them or get it repaired if you find any issues. How about your shower curtains, are they any good or you would want to change them. You can find cheap shower curtains if you do want to change. It’s good to be changing them if they stayed for too long and unused.

All together, you would want to do a thorough check up, but that’s not a big work to be doing, it’s just a bit of your time and that’s how to be a good host. No one fails on any requirements for a guest; we all love to keep them happy and do much as we can and good luck with your tasks ahead.

Joanne Murphy is a housewife and mom to two kids. She spends most of her time homemaking and blogging as well. She is working on her new blog Hardwood Floor Cleaner. Thanks for reading this one.

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