Yes. We have a dedicated study, but my DH uses that a lot. And it’s usually too messy for me. And so I work at my rolltop desk in our guest room. We have an aerobed that we keep stored in the guest room’s walk-in closet until guests are coming to stay. As for private papers, I keep what I can locked in the desk. Any others, I carry in a box and put them in our MBR walk-in closet. It works very well for us.

Lynn, when your guests are visiting, do you still use your desk?

No, I don’t. I just try to get anything done ahead of time, or move that paperwork into our bedroom closet to work on as needed. Thankfully, we have a nice size guest room, because our rolltop desk is big! In our previous house it was in our family room. But, DH wanted a different desk here so that he could face outward from his study, through its double French doors and into the foyer. And so I put it in our guest room for me to use. Ideally, I’d like to get a nice Murphy bed for in there, and give the aero bed to DD for her place. It’s a very nice, comfortable one that’s adjustable, but a Murphy bed with built-in shelves would be more attractive, long term.

I'd love a Murphy bed in our guest room, maybe one that folds down over a loveseat, but any arrangement I've tried sketching out still doesn't seem to accommodate the needs of a guest and of me.

Yes, my home office has a twin bed. But we also have middle son’s former bedroom (with queen bed) that serves as a guest room — he currently lives across the country so it’s used by him only when he’s visiting. My daughter‘s room is also available when she’s at school. So the only time we ever need to use the bed in my office is when we have a really full house, which usually is only once or twice a year.

Basically, the bed in my office is a station for: purchases waiting to be returned, gifts waiting to be wrapped, and other piles of things that are waiting to be relocated.

I just clean up my desk area when the bed is being used by guests. The guest is usually my dad, who really doesn’t care where he sleeps, fortunately.

Our home office can double as a second guest room if needed by adding a blow-up bed on frame. The file cabinets in that room are furniture grade and lockable. Any work can be done on a laptop in another room on the rare occasion that the second guest room is needed. It's only ever been used when my adult nephew visited and he actually prefers the pull-out sofa bed in the den/library even though that room has no door.

In our next smaller house, I think I will have a quality Murphy bed installed.

I use my youngest sons old bedroom as a home office. There’s still a chest of drawers and a twin bed in there, along with my desk, a bookcase and a small file, shiner. I have another bedroom that is a guest room but sometimes my young nieces stay in the home office/bedroom. One gets the bed and the other gets the aero bed, which is a good quality. I just put papers away. I doubt they would go rifling through my files.

I often use the bed for sorting papers. It’s a nice flat surface and comes in handy!

Our office has been used as a guest room with a blow up bed. Tight quarters though. Currently we use our son’s room as the guest room, he is away at college. Our daughter is planning on moving out in June, I want to put a Murphy bed in her room once she leaves. Then the room can do double duty as a guest room or a yoga room when there are no guests.

My master bedroom has its own sectioned off home office area, which has always been my office. My ex had his desk set up in one of the two spare bedrooms. That bedroom also held a twin daybed, while the dedicated guest room had a queen. We seldom had to use his office as a guest room, and then typically only for kids. Kids don't typically hang around in the room, so he was able to get in and out if needed.

In the last house XH had his office set-up in the man cave (finished garage) and my office was the one in the small bedroom with the daybed. Again, seldom used, but if it was being used I just didn't do anything at my desktop during that time. I'm a pretty big iPad user and can do most things on that if needed.

Yep, several hundred of them. :-)

Our "official" workspace is a spare bedroom-turned-home-office upstairs. It currently houses a desk, a credenza (that my husband keeps his socks and undies in, go figure), a small cabinet, and three spare Stickley dining chairs (one is used as the desk chair). It also is the new "home" to DH's clothes rack, where he hangs his things that he doesn't want to put in the dryer. I feel the room has become something of a catchall, and I don't really like that - but there's no bed in it to contend with, so at least there's that. ;-) My actual workspace is wherever I prop up my laptop, and that's most often on the kitchen island or on my lap while sitting upright in bed.