How can fitted furniture ensure your guests feel at home?
The design and furniture choices you have made come from a personal place to meet your life and style.
But when guests are brought into the mix, we’ve got five ways to help you and them feel at home. Plus, there’s a bonus tip that’s guaranteed to impress!
1. The function of your space can help you choose fitted furniture
You have enough to juggle when entertaining without also having to jump between rooms. Therefore, identifying the key function of the room or space will help you decide the type of fitted furniture and storage that can help.
You could think about creating a free-flowing, open-plan space or a multifunctional room where everyone has space to comfortably mingle and (dare we say) even entertain themselves for a few minutes. Maybe create a little reading and games nook from fitted bookcases and cabinets.
Giving you storage for everything from books to board games while creating a dedicated zone to keep the kids occupied.
For more open-plan spaces that might flow from diner to kitchen or dining room to lounge, you can choose fitted furniture that can fit perfectly around your dining table, sitting area or media units.
The dream here is also to create storage space for plates, crockery and glassware, as well as shelving to display ornaments.
Whichever type of fitted furniture works for you, you can style it to complement the decor of the spaces it’s connected with, such as the kitchen.
2. Keeping your guests entertained
Firstly, it’s not all on you to keep guests happy all the time. If you design your home spaces for them to occupy themselves, chill out and even just watch TV, you can feel at ease that they can do this comfortably in your home.
How do you do this with fitted furniture?
The simple design of a fitted media unit can be a lifesaver in a room. It provides a space for all your entertainment systems while also defining a zone where people feel comfortable and relaxed.
It can be the destination for movie nights, games nights, and karaoke evenings, with storage for everything from consoles and music systems to board games.
And it’s not just for guests! When they’ve gone home, you have a beautifully fitted piece of furniture that can also display family photos, ornaments and more.
3. Impress your guests with a fitted home bar
Drinks and refreshments are usually an entertaining staple, but where they live in the room can be important to the overall look and feel of the space.
While you could wheel in a bar cart and stand it in a free space, having a fitted cabinet built into an alcove can be more effective and functional.
Choose a cosy alcove to build cabinets that either conceal the inside or show off your best collection of bottles and glasses with frosted or glass doors.
Fitted furniture like this perfectly maximises the space with storage that you can use beyond a home bar too.
4. How can fitted furniture help entertain in a small space
Depending on how many guests you plan on hosting at one time, it’s important that your home doesn't feel claustrophobic thanks to clutter. Ensuring areas are clean and tidy is an obvious way to keep clutter at bay! But the best way to control this is by choosing fitted furniture that adapts to your multipurpose needs and doesn't take up precious floor space.
For example, you could consider incorporating more seating via a window seat, allowing space for a daybed or sofa bed to transform the space from living to guest bedroom effortlessly.
The key point in a small space is that you can never have too many storage options. The aim is to control even the slightest hint of clutter before it begins.
After all, guests usually come laden with bags, coats and shoes, so making sure there is space outside of your main entertainment area to store these away is key.
With fitted furniture, you can design storage spaces under stairs for bulky items, such as luggage, the blow-up bed and extra bedding.
You can also stop the traipsing of mud into the home with a boot room. Create a pitstop in the entrance of your home with fitted furniture that beautifully organises all your coats, umbrellas, bags, dog leads and muddy shoes.
5. Create an atmosphere with lighting built into furniture
The brightest light when entertaining should be daylight. All other lighting should be considered more. For example, dimmable, different temperatures and directions of lighting can create an environment and atmosphere that is welcoming and comfortable.
The brightest light when entertaining should be daylight. All other lighting should be considered more. For example, dimmable, different temperatures and directions of lighting can create an environment and atmosphere that is welcoming and comfortable.
By integrating lighting into fitted furniture, you have more flexibility and control of the level and style of lighting at any time of the day. Internal lighting within glass-fronted cabinets naturally creates a feature within the room while controlling a comfortable level of brightness.
On the other hand, integrated spotlights offer a more directional approach to lighting.
Pointing downwards, you can use them to zone sections of furniture in open-plan spaces, such as workspaces, dining areas or bookcases.
A bonus tip, guaranteed to impress!
Make your guest room hotel-worthy
Staying the night? Being ready with a room that makes guests feel at home is important. Read our guide on creating a luxury hotel room feeling at home and take some inspiration from there… but in general, a good guest bedroom is the cherry on top of any host’s home.
Entertaining guests for any length of time can be made easier and smoother with the help of fitted furniture. While you play host, let your furniture keep the bedroom area or sleeping spaces can be beautifully organised and have a few hotel-worthy touches.
With fitted wardrobes, your guests get space for all their clothes, which means they’re not taking up space in your wardrobe. And, by simply incorporating a mirror and fitted vanity furniture, there’s also space for all their toiletries which can stop them hogging the bathroom! Plus, when they’re not there, you get a walk-in wardrobe as well!
There’s more to entertaining than meets the eye. And having your home in comfortable and organised condition can help everyone out. We believe beautiful bespoke fitted furniture can help make this happen. If you want more information or help on how guests can feel at home with the help of fitted furniture, get in touch.
Book a free home design visit and we can start the journey together.
