It looks like you have a good choice of spaces. A few questions:

- is the office needed for full time work: 9am-5pm, 5 days a week?

- is the "school room" needed for full time home schooling in a few years when your toddler and baby have grown?

- how often do you have guests and how long do they stay? A couple visitors a year for two nights is a much different situation from grandparents who stay for a few weeks or months.

Where is the bathroom that the guests would use?

The bathroom is right around the corner, just behind where the mirror is in the entry.

The shower would be upstairs though.
That is what the bump out could provide if we wanted to create a first floor master/ guest room

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1. the office is used part time

2. and school we will eventually need a full time homeschool room (whether that be the living room or dining room)

3. The guests would need to be able to stay as long as a week

Thanks for info.

First, cross the home school bridge when you come to it. Use the dining room as a playroom (or even a dining room) for now.

Second, put in a Murphy bed in the current office and vacate the room when there are visitors.

Third, buy a 30 by 60 inch folding table ($100) to use as a temporary desk in the playroom or primary bedroom when you have visitors. The table will be useful for other purposes, too, as time goes on.

This layout with desk on wheels across left wall and a pop-up trundle bed against the far wall. Forget the whole murphy bed thing--a lot of trouble to move everything around. One chair in the room--upholstered office chair like one below has a guest room feel.

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Ikea has desktops of many lengths and legs with wheels

Alternatively, create and attractive desk on back wall with daybed (or Murphy bed on the right wall.

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Back "office wall" should look like this but all the way across, nice desk lamp, wonderful art on the wall, and a great chair.

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Here's eventual foyer/schoolroom layout.

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But for now library/sitting room.

Wow these are great ideas!! THANK YOU!

I hope you'll forget about a Murphy bed--a lot of trouble. There are loads of fairly comfortable trundle beds and futons that will work for a guest room. It's the day to day family, and future homeschooling plans, that should have priority.

If your husband is handy, then start with wraparound bookshelves to the height of the chair rail in that space to left of staircase. Later on, baskets of teaching materials and books can be stored there with kids' art work above But start now with getting those shelves in place for an library/sitting room. Sometimes there's storage space under a staircase. Check that out.

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Later on, add a round work table in the middle for your children, some backjacks upholstered chairs on the floor for reading, art easel, blackboard/whiteboard, piano where it is But start using that space now for a beautiful entry/reading/sitting room/music room.

Other ideas--storage bench banquette for reading. Could go under a window.

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