What do you call the room where you work?

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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?

The kitchen or the playroom

We were discussing this last week. DH says that an office is for paid work and a study is for things you enjoy and do out of choice. I think I agree.

He's got his study, I will have a desk in the spare room where I can keep my bits and bobs, I'll have to think of a new name for it.

The room of requirement is currently the spare room . I like to think that it will be rechristened once I've redone my desk.

the office because it's an office

'Office' typically. However, I believe that an 'atelier' encompasses all types of work/ crafts that may be done in a specific room. Fancy.

It is a dedicated home office with no other function so it's 'the office'.

I put a sofa in there as well as my desk and chair as I thought it might make a nice alternative to the living room as a place to sit, but I associate it so strongly with work now I WFH full time, it would feel wrong to sit in there and read, say.

We have my study and my DH's study. It would be confusing to refer to them as the office, because that's what we call the building our companies are based at.

Ooh, I like atelier. I have a space which is "mine" with my WFH desk, my yoga mat and kettlebells, plus a sofa and a wall of bookshelves, but due to its positioning it's referred to as the mezzanine.

If you work from home in a room not used for anything else it is the office IMO.

DH works from home in the attic 🤣 - its just called the attic, though actually it's our bedroom, and a large but oddly shaped space so it actually has three "zones" and the work space is quite separate from the sleeping space and another space with our filing and another desk ... still we've never called that floor anything but the attic.

My job isn't one that can be done from home luckily, as I'd have to work in the same open space (technically possible) or in the basement "hobby room" (which we never remember to call the hobby room and always call the basement).

I call it the spare room. I don't see why you can't call it a spare room because it doesn't have a bed in it? Surely the room-with-a-bed in it is the spare bedroom (or guest room?).

The office, I feel like "study" was the traditional work but it might have become less used.

The office or spare room. Don't think I've come across anyone calling it a study yet. Most people don't have a separate space and have just taken a corner from somewhere so the names don't really matter.

Under the stairs...I don't have a designated office space, but there is a nook underneath the stairs that I fit in without being in the way of others. The only downside is that my family keep congregating right in front of me when working despite being repeatedly and now angrily asked to use one of the other rooms with a door that can close

Given it's got crafty stuff in there too you'd be fine to call it your studio!

The kitchen - oh how I would love an office/ study

I call it my home office. Office for short and a simpler way of saying it. DH also has his office.

The children have a study room or Study, where they study.

There's no agenda or pretentiousness behind it. It's simply labelling rooms based on its function.

Quite funny to think 'Office' can be seen as pretentious when it's at home. Same function as where you work.

That said, we hardly talk about 'our office' unless we need to specify where we are or where something is in the house.

We call ours the study even though it also has the spare bed in.

I call it “my room”

I think 'study' is far more pretentious than 'office'

The kitchen.

I was pondering this… we call it “office”.

I know on a Rightmove floor plan it would be called a study’, but to me a study is where children do their homework, and you’d have bookshelves instead of just screens etc.

Since I've been working from home for the past year and a half, it was important to have a good set up. Moveable desk, printer, etc. I claimed my space. I call it the living room, but technically it is closer to the dining room - so the Lining Room perhaps? My desk is setup in the bay window that spans both rooms.

I do have the smallest bedroom set up as my room. I call it my dressing room or my room or the wee room. It has all my 'stuff' in it, my clothes and a comfy chair. It is where I sit and listen to the radio and read and get quiet time.

It is funny how we find it difficult to name our spaces, isn't it?

Study, but I do feel like a bit of a wanker saying that. It also has a significant role as “storing random crap” room.

DH is permanently based at home and his office is called his office. The house was designed for that room to be an office and it’s downstairs, not a spare room. I work in the dining room and call it the dining room 😂.

Ours is the office. Although at the minute I tend to refer to it as the room of doom.

It is only used for me to WFH and I don't go in there apart from to work. I feel very lucky that I have a very definite space in which to work, previously I worked in the kitchen and it was impossible to ever really detach from work.