Where do you put your Snoopy-obsessed godson when he comes for a week-long visit?

Turn an IKEA desk, a cardboard box and some dollar store wrapping paper into a dream-come-true guest bed…

We are blessed here at Social Nesting HQ to have a pretty decent guest room and have housed a number of special friends. And our most recent impending visitor sparked an idea that started with B’s desk.

The IKEA Micke desk is the perfect tiny workspace-cum-guest-room-surface for the occasional work from home situations, but it mostly goes unused. I wonder if it ever dreamed of the transformation that was coming…

So the visiting godson has long been a Peanuts super-fan. The love, inherited from his mother, spans every incarnation of Snoopy and the gang. Naturally when discussing where we would put him, it wasn’t long before the desk turned into Snoopy’s doghouse in my mind.

The single blow-up mattress we had fit perfectly underneath, so off I set with cardboard, tape and red giftware from the dollar store.

I am not going to teach the obvious here – any crafter worst their salt (and willing to do this themselves) can figure out how to cut up a cardboard box, secure it to a desk, and wrap it. I am here merely to provide a hint of inspiration.

A few wooden letters and some squiggly lines with a Sharpie et voila! A bed that gave our little visitor a dream place to rest his little jet-lagged head.