Archive Dive: 10 of Our Favorite Guest Rooms

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Of course there’s always the worry that idyllic guest quarters will turn you into an unpaid hotelier. But kindhearted souls with room to spare, take note: Not all guest rooms are equal. Here are 10 filled with simple, serene comforts worth replicating.

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Quilts made from Vintage Marimekko on Charles P. Rogers Cottage Beds in the glam guest wing of fashion stylist/shopkeeper Tiina Laakonen’s Hamptons compound.

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A shed converted into a guest room in interiors stylist Twig Hutchinson’s London garden.

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The guest room in Remodelista contributor Justine Hand’s Old Cape Cod Cottage has its original wallpaper and a vintage iron bed that Justine tracked down to match.

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In her all-white Pasadena bungalow, LA interior designer Michaela Scherrer keeps a guest room with built-in cabinets.

Photo courtesy of Hyde Evans Design

This seaside guest room by Hyde Evans Design of Seattle won the 2014 Remodelista Considered Design Award for Best Professionally Designed Bedroom.

An under-the-eaves guest room with a DIY bed made from recycled wooden pallets.

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Photo courtesy of Father Rabbit

For shoppers who never want to leave? This tranquil bedroom at the Father Rabbit store in Auckland, New Zealand, is kitted out with a shallow open closet, an idea worth stealing.

Photo by Rachel Whiting

In her compact London quarters, stylist Sara Emslie, author of Beautifully Small, has a cottage-style guest room with baskets under the bed for storage.

Photo by Sean Fennessy via The Design Files

In her Sydney apartment, Cassandra Karinsky furnishes her guest room with designs from her Moroccan import house Kulchi, hanging rattan lamp and Tuareg mat included.

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Architects Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith of Workstead overhauled their farmhouse in Upstate New York themselves. Their guest room is furnished with spool beds that belonged to Robert’s grandparents in North Carolina.

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