Husband not happy with me working from home undertaking calls.

Op has bigger issues than her professionalism, absolutely.

He also works from home upstairs in the spare room, I never go in the room when he is working let alone if he was on an important call

what the actual F? He hogs the spare room all the time but you can’t wfh in the kitchen for an hour undisturbed?! He sounds selfish and petty and obviously thinks his job is the priority over yours.

Your husband is a pain in the arse and disrespectful of your work commitments. But I'd find a more private place to use and either set up a professional looking background, or blur it.

he can't wait to get a drink for 1 hour once a month?????

surely not......

You can't ban people from the kitchen because you're working in there.

Find a room to work from, get a cheap plain backdrop, and put a lock on the door.

He's being unreasonable and possibly deliberately sabotaging your job. That's a whole other discussion.

Do you think he's willing to break the door when you're in the middle of court proceedings?

It's one hour only once ever? In that case yeah they should give them the room. Or even if it's an hour a day.

But having sensitive calls relating to court cases in a communal kitchen is obviously going to cause a certain level of issue for both worker and kitchen users occasionally.

YABU work in another room that people don’t need to use

You could just get some large pieces of cardboard, paint it a plain block colour of your choice, or buy a self-adhesive vinyl roll, and make a portable 'screen' to pop behind you while on camera (there's plenty of YouTube videos to show you how). That way you can use anymore and free up the kitchen which really is an 'essential' room for the whole household to be able to use.

OP, I really don't understand why you have to go to the inconvenience of travelling and booking an office space just because The Important One is unwilling to facilitate an uninterrupted hour or so for you once a month or less. The kitchen is a red herring, he is not a nice man.

We have a grey pop out background that we use for self tapes. It cost around £40 from Amazon. You can put it up close behind you.
He was being a knob, but its annoying to not be able to get a drink.

So I put you are being unreasonable after reading your first post, I have now changed it to you are not being unreasonable after reading this post.

Basically although he works from home, he doesn’t want you working from home. He is being unreasonable, in fact he is being an arse.

I go to the office but it’s not always possible to book a room. He says it’s my work’s problem not his. I think I will just need to do this moving forward

Im sorry you have such a twat of an unsupportive dh. Sometimes things in life are less than jdeal and you may be a little inconvenienced but this is hardly causing him a hardship. He is deliberately being belligerent and awkward and trying to undermine you professionally.

Its unreasonable to inconvenience other people in the home. You shouldn't be using a communal area

Hi I also do court work so understand you can not physically put a background on. Although not ideal each time you need to attend court you could clear a space in a room to make the background “more professional” or get a backdrop. Sounds like you have a husband problem though and there is more going on.

On occasion I’ve had to be in the kitchen to work my husband and children wait for me to finish my call before coming in because that’s basic manners surely.

Well on the one hand working in the kitchen is a pain as it's too important a room to monopolise BUT if you gave him good warning your husband is just being embarrassingly childish for a grown man. He knows this is serious and important work and the fact that he would disturb you without good reason shows a real arrogance and lack of respect for your professional reputation.

Get yourself a screen so you can work in another room and tell him to grow up.

He’s an unpleasant soul, isn’t he?

Next time he’s in his ‘office’ I would be tempted to get the vacuum cleaner out and clean the bedrooms, landing and stairs…and use a bristle brush to get into the stair corners which, unfortunately, can result in a banging noise…

If you are out more at the office, you’ll have to use whatever times you can for housework.

I know from my husband working at home how annoying this is to not be able to use areas of the house or make a drink etc. I agree with your husband!
Id see your point if was 9 to 5 everyday Monday to friday butcodd hours here and there are easy to navigate if you communicate with each other.

You’re unreasonable to work from the kitchen.

However

Your updates make your husband sound like a massive, massive bellend.

How is he in the rest of your relationship?

Fit a bolt to the kitchen door.

It isn't a general illustration of anything other than the dick of a husband monopolising the study and barging in wherever she is working.

Read the OP's posts, it will save you misrepresenting the situation and looking like a fool.

Oh and court cases for the most part are open to the public.

Not for an hour a month though. I agree if it's every day.

If DH or I need peace and quiet for a call we say so in advance and close the doors.

We can stay out of the way for an hour.

It's really not hard, especially when it's not frequent. If he wants a drink he can get one before your call, or after. If he has his own meetings he can work around it eg by having an extra kettle in his office or something.

I know from my husband working at home how annoying this is to not be able to use areas of the house or make a drink etc. I agree with your husband!