Can a spare room be used as storage?

[Deleted]

We have a 2 floor 4/2.5. We have lived here for several years now, and I've now realized as a family we use only 3bedrooms.

DH prefers our garage to be used as the home gym location as the spare is on the second floor...therefore storage items (Christmas decor, etc) will need another location...so I was thinking about using the 2nd floor spare room as a storage room. Is that unheard of? We have guests, but very rarely, only 2 guests in 4yrs.

I feel like the spare room would have better use as a storage space, but not sure if that's a thing homeowners do.

[pittpurple]

Why not? It's your space to use as makes sense to you. You can get lots of great storage setups that would look nice and be flexible enough to have an air mattress in there if you need it one day.

[deadwing]

It's your house - use the room in the way that best suits you! I have a spare "bedroom" that I largely treat as a walk in closet/storage space. It works for me.

[tacokick]

Our spare room has rolling racks for our clothes, our Christmas tree, bookcases, and all of the sheets/towels in dressers because we don’t really have closets. It’s basically a walk in closet.

Bonus: we don’t host overnight guests!

[Susie]

I see extra bedrooms used as all kinds of spaces in real estate listings.  Mostly home offices, but also workout rooms, yoga spaces, sewing rooms, other hobby spaces.  I've even seen them turned into really grand dressing rooms/enormous closets.  

We happen to use our 4th bedroom as a guest room, because my dad often visits and may someday move in.  It is "his room."  But if it were not for him, our spare room would primarily be my sewing room I think.  I already use it to grow my orchids, since it has a nice double window.

This is definitely a "whatever works for you" kind of thing.  

[wildrice]

When you eventually sell you may want to stage it differently, but I see absolutely no reason not to do whatever works for you while you're living there. Who cares what other people do?

[wanderingback]

It’s your house, do whatever you want with it!

[expectantsteelerfan]

Before we moved we used our spare room for storage for a lot of things. I did have a bed in there for guests, but if we were to have guests, I had to seriously rearrange things and move some things out in order for them to be able to comfortably stay. And even once I moved things, under the bed was still full of stuff, the closet was still full of stuff (to the point where I would ask guests not to open it to hang anything and to hang stuff in the hall closet if they needed to hang stuff), and there were rubbermaid totes stacked along the one wall still, so I'd apologize for the guest room also being our storage room. The few guests we had didn't seem to mind. Oh, and I mostly moved stuff into our master bedroom while we had guests and just dealt with it while they were there.

[Wallflower]

Chiming in here - make the house work for you! Use YOUR SPACE however best works for you!

[definitelyO]

yes of course it can.

[origami]

The previous homeowners of my house had made a bedroom into a storage closet with shelving racks and everything. Do what works!