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That's a good idea. Boats with two entirely separate sleeping areas are not always ideal for the voyaging passagemaker, however, at least in the sub-50 foot range. I'm think of the difficultly of keeping an aft cabin, a V-berth and at least two sea berths available along with decent stowage and provisioning and tankage for four adults.
I would suggest the following. Keep one "owner's cabin" and two sea/pilot berths (which are typical outboard of the settees in the main saloon). Offer to swap the more cozy owner's cabin with the "crew couple" on an amenable schedule. It's a simple gesture (and on passage, the people in the berths might get a better sleep!), but one that is courteous and easily accommodated.
Because our passagemaker is devoted to self-sufficiency, we have two saloon sea berths and a double bed in the aft cabin. But it would be easily possible to add a pipe berth in the workshop forward, or to clear out the gear from the two very protected and cave-like pilot berths in the pilothouse, plus my wife has concluded putting the dinette table on a piston or otherwise lowering strut could make the entire settee area the equivalent of a king-sized, if we could stow the bedding needed (maybe an inflatable camp bed?).
Necessity is the mother of invention here (hammocks, maybe? Why not?), and my point is that getting a monster boat just to enable extra crew may be putting the rudder off the bow, if you follow.
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