It's a conundrum, arranging a place so there is a place to entertain guests, and keeping the main rooms clean enough for pop-in visitors. It's nice to do, but you can wind up shoving all the things that make living interesting into a corner in the spare room, and never get to them.   Or leave them out where you can enjoy puttering around with them, and then get caught with a mess when people show up. I know it's not a black and white choice, but it seems like it this week, and   it can take a bit of clever arranging to keep the whole place sort-of functional yet presentable.