A matter of practicality: beds!

[JnG]

Figured someone here might have some thoughts...

My wife and I have met couples whose company we enjoy, but we're still pretty new to things overall. One of the things we'd like to do is invite them over, but there's a little matter of practicality that has come up.

Simply put, we live in a fairly small house and have limited space. It's a 3 bedroom place, but one of the rooms is taken up by an office. Another is the master bedroom (which isn't off-limits for play), but given the logistics of our floor plan and its size (queen) it just isn't situated for 4 people.

That leaves the 3rd room. Right now, we have a fold-out futon bed/couch, but it's small and extremely uncomfortable, and I'm honestly not so sure that under rigorous use it wouldn't collapse.

I'm of the firm mind that if we're going to have people over, we would want to make them as comfortable as possible. This brings up a couple of issues:

1. There are two rooms, so theoretically that should solve the 'not enough room' issue. However, some couples don't like to be separated (not an issue with us given that the rooms are about 4 feet apart and - with doors open - you can see from one into the other, but I respect that it's an issue for some couples). Really, our place is small enough that I'd hardly call it "swinging separately", but...

2. Our main bed is fine, but the futon sucks. We're limited on space - it's a small room - but we'll probably need to find another bed. Anyone have suggestions? Perhaps just a higher quality futon?

Maybe we should eschew the idea of beds. We have a perfectly good couch, stairs, floor...

Anyone have similar problems, and if so, how have you handled them?

[EvilMJ]

Hey, our couch has seen a lot of action! So has the chair and the floor

We have a 3 bedroom house as well, with a queen sized bed..and we make it work. Sometimes all of us go into the bed room and share the bed (we seem to make it work okay) or sometimes we split up and (usually it ends up me.. ) two of us stay upstairs and play on the couch. It can be done, don't dispare. Necessity is the mother of invention !!!

[txduo2000]

I am eager to see many responses to this dilemma, as I have a similar one.

Our house is not so small ... around 2200 sq. ft. actually, and we have four bedrooms.

Here's my dilemma ... We have considered having a small to mid-sized party/get-together and space would be a concern for 4-5 couples and a few singles.

One of the bedrooms is ours, with a king size bed, no problem there.

The other three bedrooms belong to our kids, and are definitely off-limits to play. Aside from that being something I just could not allow to occur on our children's beds .... who would want to participate in obvious "kid" rooms????

That leaves our living room, which is rather large but is divided by the couch as our pool table is in the living room as well as the couch/loveseat/television sitting area.

So I am greatly looking forward to any suggestions for how to have a party like this with limited play space.

[Ssugarlips]

How about an air mattress/bed? We have two king-size beds in two bedrooms, but we also have a large rec room downstairs. We have a king-size air mattress in storage for extra company. We've used the air mattress when our bedroom was off limits and the guest bedroom was occupied. They fill quickly, deflate easily and don't take up much storage space when not in use. They aren't that expensive.

I did a quick search at Target's website and came up with a couple of different options/prices.

http://www.target.com/gp/search.html...index%3Dtarget

[JDApopka]

How about an air mattress/bed?
I agree we have one. I have sleeped on it a few times. it was ok. sex on it may be iffy but better that nothing

[Vespertine]

I've had sex on an air mattress and they work just fine.

In fact, you can get a little bounce-action on them that you don't usually get on a traditional mattress.

[JnG]

Amazingly enough, we found a solution - I don't know how we did it, but we rearranged our bedroom (we thought that there was only one way it would go, but we devised another - and it's actually better).

My wife and I are quite a team.

Thanks, everyone!

[hfire269]

We only have a two full size beds.. we can seem to fit 4 people on them jsut fine.. lol so a queen we would have lots of room.. lol

[meandher2go]

if the couple is hot, it wont matter where you do it...

[VegasLee]

We have queen size air mattresses that we use for parties at our home and we also take them with us as extra play space for parties at convention.

At our house we limit the "squirters" to the air mattress. The beds are off limits for that play.

We have never had a problem using them for play parties. You can get real cheap ones that I don't think are good for play but we found good mid priced ones at Walmart that work great.

[SluttyWife]

I'd go with both a full size bed and a chaise lounge in the same room. That way there's just enough room for side by side and separate then the additional room not far away is always an added option. Play it by ear? ;-)

I think the most important thing of all in the "playroom" is low lighting. Need to dim things abit to help sustain a mood.

I wish I hadn't missed this one.

Slutty Wife ;-*

[JnG]

> I think the most important thing of all in the "playroom" is low lighting. Need to
> dim things abit to help sustain a mood.

What do you think of candles?

I love candles, even in vanilla situations (especially vanilla candles, oddly enough) - enough that I think at least one or two people have wondered about my sexual preference.

[macleods727]

Hello,
Candles are good depending on the crowd. Even with just hubby and I, I have worried about candles being bumped or fabric getting onto them as clothes get thrown.

Vanilla is also considered one of the sensual scents. Though you might want to check first to make sure that the people are not allergic to that scent.