Rooms & Layout Editor
Jordan Ellis
Chicago, IL
Jordan Ellis is Rooms & Layout Editor at Kotro Home. He comes from residential staging and small-space planning, where the brief is almost always the same: one room has to do two jobs without embarrassing either one. Jordan specializes in guest bedrooms that double as offices, hobby rooms, and dens—bed type decisions, reset routines, blackout and luggage details, and the circulation math that decides whether a Murphy bed or a daybed is the honest answer. His guest-room playbooks are built from overnight tests and timed resets, not mood boards. He writes for homeowners who host a few times a year and need the room to earn its keep the rest of the calendar. Based in Chicago, he favors layouts you can verify with tape on the floor before a single order ships.
- Guest bedrooms
- Dual-use rooms
- Small-space layouts
- Lighting & circulation
Room guides by Jordan Ellis
- Guest Bedroom Ideas for Dual-Use Rooms: How to Pass the Overnight Test
Your guest room is an office, a craft table, or a treadmill room fifty weeks a year — and then someone arrives with a suitcase. Here is how to plan a room that converts in fifteen minutes and still sleeps like a real bedroom.
Updated 2026-09-14 · 11 min