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What do you call the room where you work?

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ReviewingTheSituation · 01/11/2021 15:59

Random musing for a Monday afternoon...

I'm lucky enough to have a spare room that I can work in. It's got my laptop in it, and all my crafty stuff too. It's 'my' space in the house. But I never know what to call it! It's not the spare room - it has no bed in it, and we have a room with a spare bed in it. Is it my office? My study? It's not often I need to give it a label or a name, but the situation arises every so often.

For those of you stuck WFH (which is how I feel - I hate it - that's another thread), what do you call your room of work (if you have a dedicated place for it?

OP posts:
Playingoutinthedark · 01/11/2021 16:02

My desk is set up in the small box room. It's usually called the office or the small room in our house.

I do feel like a pretentious arsehole calling it the office TBH.

stalkersaga · 01/11/2021 16:04

I call it my study or my office, but mostly study. The DC just call it my "work room".

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ReviewingTheSituation · 01/11/2021 16:05

That's exactly the issue! It's compounded by the fact that we have another room (a glorified cupboard really) where DH works, so we can't even just call it 'the office', as we have 2!
'My office' (to differentiate from DH's) sounds even more pretentious than 'the office'!

OP posts:
ftw163532 · 01/11/2021 16:08

Would calling one of your office/work rooms a study be more or less pretentious than calling it an office?! Grin

1990s · 01/11/2021 16:09

Bedroom 3. Hate the word study, no idea why!

AChickenCalledDaal · 01/11/2021 16:10

I call mine "my little blue room", but that might not work for you.

I really didn't anticipate spending quite so long looking at these really very bright blue walls when I painted it ... but at least I am easy to spot on Teams.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 01/11/2021 16:12

I don't work, but DH is.

He used to be in the Blue Bedroom.
Then he moved into my craftroom full of fabrics & wool called Yarnia🤣

1990s · 01/11/2021 16:14

Yarnia Star

ftw163532 · 01/11/2021 16:14

Does either room have a bookcase? Designate that one the library.

I'd probably call the smaller one a study and the larger one a craft room or office.

reluctantbrit · 01/11/2021 16:14

Monday to Thursday 9-5, it’s my office. At any other time it’s the spare bedroom which gained a desk last year.

DH has a tiny office for his own use but he works from home since 10 years so it was designed to fit him and his requirements.

Badbadbunny · 01/11/2021 16:15

For those running a business or working from home, then I think it's fair to say it's an office.

For those who don't actually "work" from home, but have a room with a desk, for things like paying bills, life admin, household paperwork, maybe personal reading/research, etc., then I'd call it a study.

IknowwhatIneed · 01/11/2021 16:16

My room is either my work room or my office - I run a small business from the house so it’s been my work room for years.

Bathtoy · 01/11/2021 16:19

Mine’s my study. DH’s is referred to as ‘the pigsty’.

ThelmaMadine · 01/11/2021 16:21

We each have a dedicated office so we call them “Jane’s office” and “Jack’s office” (not real names, of course).

Lockdownbear · 01/11/2021 16:21

Ours was the dining room and it's still called that, just before lockdown we were going to turn it into a toy room / den.
Before we properly had it set up it became the 'office' but I hate calling it that as half the kids toys are in it!

BalladOfBarryAndFreda · 01/11/2021 16:23

The kitchen Grin. DH has the office.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 01/11/2021 16:26

Am only very rarely wfh now but when I do the room is called the lounge /dining room and the work surface is called the dining table, exactly the same as when I am not wfh.

MapleMay11 · 01/11/2021 16:26

The office. Purpose built on the ground floor and only used as such.

dudsville · 01/11/2021 16:30

It's "my room", and my partner's is "his room". We both do so much more than work in our rooms, work just got added in! The funny thing for us is when we refer to them to others because I always think it sounds like we have separate bedrooms, which is fine, but we don't.

WhatHaveIFound · 01/11/2021 16:30

It's the office. It was built as such since I've always worked from home (self employed).

naughtyfurballs · 01/11/2021 16:31

I'm in 'the office' which is tiny. DH is in the blue room (due to the decor) which is also our spare bedroom. But we called my space 'the office' long before covid hit as it has a desk and the printer but no bed.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 01/11/2021 16:38

@ReviewingTheSituation

for the sake of just calling it something "office" is fine. that's it's main purpose.

A friend is a freelance writer so has to do a fair amount of reaserch so he calls his workspace "study" because it's more closely reflects his situation.

"Studio" suggests some art/creative element

What else...

  • work room (clunky)
  • cave (prehistoric? bat? lady????)
  • dungeon (kinky! or creepy)
  • fortress of solitude (too cold)
  • centre of operations (you are not MI6)
  • cockpit (just no)
  • bunker (hope not)
Kite22 · 01/11/2021 16:39

"My work room" (as opposed to the room where dh has been working, which we always called 'the study' long before COVID hit.

Chersfrozenface · 01/11/2021 16:43

I now, since the start of Covid, work from home. On a laptop, on the desk in my daughter's room. Which she doesn't use very often as she lives in another city, but it is still called "Cherlet's room".

Tomnooktoldmeto · 01/11/2021 16:49

We call it the room of requirement, it’s been a playroom, school room (dd goes to school from home) a dining room twice and is now the home office