Slow Goodbyes: The Guest Room

Can you handle one more goodbye in our house-tour goodbyes?

Today I bid a fond farewell to our guest room. I was so excited to have a guest room...a PROPER guest room...when we moved to Kokomo. We had one at our Marion house, but the awkward layout of the house meant that it didn't always provide maximum privacy for the guests. Of course, we also very rarely had guests when we lived in Marion, so it all worked out. But in Kokomo, we had a wonderful, dedicated space for our guests, and they even had their very own bathroom right next to the bedroom. (And we did have guests several times!)

Both of these rooms received an update during quarantine, so they're shiny and new for the new owners!

* I'm pretty sure our first guest ever in this room was my sister, when she flew out to surprise Mom for her 80th birthday party!

* I'm also pretty sure if I start naming all the actual names, I'll end up forgetting key visitors who stayed in the room, and that would be bad. But we had many overnight guests in the four years we were here, and we loved fixing up the space for each of them!

* This was also the unofficial play and nap room whenever the kids came to visit. They thought it was great fun to hide out in there and pull all the books off the shelf and read - or all the blocks out to build!

And of course, this was Ryan's moms home base when she lived with us after surgery, and she LOVED living in that room. (This is a picture I took of her with her dad, when he came to visit her on his birthday that year. It's one of my favorite pictures of them both.)

In our 2020 makeover of the room, it became my beloved Anne of Green Gables hideaway, and Ryan surprised me with an Anne themed birthday party in there for my quarantine birthday this year!

I am absolutely recreating my Anne of Green Gables hideaway in our new home! It was the first room I packed up, so I haven't seen any of it for quite a while. It will be rather like Christmas when I get to unpacking those boxes! :)

I think it's extra special to have so many wonderful memories from a guest room. I'm actually really happy we took the time to be a guest in our own home before we moved. (If you have a guest room - you really should try it sometime!)

I'm so glad we had this dedicated space to share with friends and family, and I'm glad we have a dedicated space once again!

Thanks, too, for taking this little memory walk with me. I feel like I've given our house a proper farewell, so when it's time to actually say the last goodbye, I'll be ready!