Turning Our Guest Room Into A Lounge

Colorful Modern Lounge Living Room Home Décor Inspiration

Welcome to our new and improved back bedroom lounge! I doubt any of you who have been following along with me for the past few years will be surprised that I ditched our traditional guest room to create a living space since I did exactly that at our old house. We simply love living rooms, and I suppose that we’re a little addicted to creating cozy lounging spots all over our home. While living in our old house, we ultimately carved our three entirely separate living rooms, and we’re now on our fourth one here at our “new” house two years in. Our pets love a good couch, and so do we, apparently!

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Those photos above show what our guest room looked like just a few short weeks ago. It was lovely and we appreciated knowing that we had a space for overnight guests to stay. Realistically, though, the bed had been used only a handful of times since we moved to this house back in 2022, and mostly by us when we were sick or couldn’t sleep in our main bedroom for whatever reason (like when we were in the middle of taking down the old wallpaper in our room). Our pets used the guest bed way more than any humans ever did, and they certainly didn’t need a full-size bed. A sofa or chair would serve them just fine, so I got it into my head to get rid of the guest room yet again to make way for a new lounge living space that we could all make properly good use of.

Colorful Modern Lounge Living Room Home Décor Inspiration

Colorful Modern Lounge Living Room Home Décor Inspiration

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Around the time that I had this lightbulb moment, one of my favorite, most trusted furniture companies reached out to offer one of their sleeper sofas to us in exchange for a blog review (coming soon). It was the perfect excuse for us to officially say goodbye to our guest bed and move our existing sofa to the now-cleared-out extra bedroom. The blank spot in our formal living room will soon be filled with our new sleeper sofa, and once that finally arrives, we’ll actually have room for overnight guests after all! They’ll just be situated in our living room rather than in the back bedroom.

Note: I would have put the new sleeper sofa in the back bedroom, but the dimensions meant it wouldn’t fit. Our old sofa, though, was a great size for this small bedroom.

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Since moving our sofa to the back bedroom (and restyling the room with a fresh new rug in honor of the occasion), we’ve already used the room so much more than we ever did when it was a guest room. There’s no TV in this room, but that doesn’t bother me. I use it mostly for playing with our three pets on the floor or for reading. The four living rooms in our home are all scattered widely across the expanse of our extra wide ranch home, so I’m able to move from space to space throughout the day chasing the light. It works so well for me as a work-from-home creative, and I love having all sorts of options when it comes to my lounging habits.

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Colorful Modern Lounge Living Room Home Décor Inspiration

Would you ever consider swapping your guest room out for a bonus lounge living space? Like I said, we did this at our last house, and it was such a cozy spot. I never regretted it, and we were even able to sell that house without having to turn the space back into a guest room for prospective buyers, so don’t let fears of resale stop you! You can read my (unexpectedly passionate) opinion about that design dilemma here on my Home Matters newsletter if you’re interested in getting my advice for designing your home for real life versus resale. Anyway, let me know in the comments if you think you’d try this design choice out in your own home, or if you already have.

Colorful Modern Lounge Living Room Home Décor Inspiration

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March 2025 Home Mood Boards

Bold Dining Nook Home Décor Mood Board

It’s time to share what I’ve been posting over on my LTK account! I started this series because I didn’t want you to miss out on this free content in case you’re not following along on LTK or Instagram, so I’ll be posting a roundup here on the blog at the end of each month to help inspire your home décor brainstorming. Don’t forget to click all the way through to LTK (links are included in the paragraph explanations below) to get direct linked access to all of the pieces in each collection.

Bold Dining Nook:

This month was full of mental inspiration for me since I’ve been saving my pennies for other things and haven’t been spending much on home décor for our real life home. I am so excited to share the dream rooms that I schemed up this month to feed my creativity, starting with a bold dining nook full of sophisticated color and textures. I’m particularly smitten with the area rug and that unique gold chandelier. The aim of this hypothetical space was to create a dining area that took up very little square footage for those of you who live in an apartment or are carving out an eat-in area within your kitchen, so I picked a round dining table and a bench that allows you to push the arrangement up against a wall. Click here to get shopping links to everything you see in the graphic above.

Contemporary Desert Bedroom Home Décor Mood Board

Contemporary Desert Bedroom:

Did you see our primary bedroom makeover reveal earlier this week? Well, suffice it to say that I’ve had cozy bedroom designs on my mind as of late, and I thought I’d try my hand at designing an earthy desert-inspired space for fun as part of my weekly mood board shares. That textured rug looks like it would be so comfy under-foot, and the boucle bench design is super eye-catching, in my opinion! The art collection is the real star of this scheme, though. Aren’t the colors in this piece, in particular, so soothing? Shop the look this way.

Cool Cozy Lounge Home Décor Mood Board

Cool Cozy Lounge:

Another room makeover that I’ve been personally dreaming about is our back bedroom lounge. We made the decision to turn our never-used guest room into an everyday living space, and the cool lounge mood board that you see above is a direct representation of those plans. Some of the art and textiles were chosen just for fun if money was no object in our project, but the rest of the accents are actually what we’ve really used in the space (I even found a wallpaper that looks like the existing 1960s print from when our home was built!). I can’t wait to reveal that revamped space to you soon…In the meantime, you can peruse the links to this mood board collection over on my LTK feed here.

Funky Colorful Entry Home Décor Mood Board

Funky Colorful Entry:

We definitely don’t have any real life plans to update our small entry, but if we had a larger space and a healthier home décor budget, you better believe that I’d be making this funky colorful entry design a reality! I loved picking more contemporary pieces for this mood board, like the curvy lamp, handmade catchall dish, and geometric rugs (shop the bronze/yellow option here, and the ivory/beige one is linked here). The art collection is the part I clearly had the most fun curating. I wanted to pull together options that would make you smile as you walk in and out of the doorpieces that put some pep in your step. If you love this look as much as I do, you can get all the sources here on my feed.

Trendy Vintage Office Home Décor Mood Board

Trendy Vintage Office:

Bringing things back down to the earth is this mood board for a trendy vintage office. I decided to use the term “Trendy” in the title because I’ve noticed that earthy antique-looking décor is sort of all the rage right now. And bravo to the design world for making it so! This, of course, is a classic look that will never go out of style, and, thankfully, there are lots of ready-made pieces on the market now that can afford you the look of antique home décor for a fraction of the price of what you’d pay for authentically vintage art and furniture. I’m especially loving that retro-looking desktop speaker and the pair of leather chairs. I couldn’t believe the price on those! It’s good to be a vintage-loving homemaker living in 2025…Shop the whole room this way.

Let me know in the comments if you have a specific room or spot in your home that you’d like me to mood board next! I always make sure to prioritize follower requests first, so please do tell what’s on your list of future house projects.

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