What do you call the room where you work?

[ReviewingTheSituation]

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?

My husband called his home office a study, we had custom made desks in there plus bookshelves and he did his work and house paperwork in there. My Dad's study was where he read and just got away from us three kids! My work space is my office (box room). Could be studio though it's what I do after my daughter has done the initial creating (I'm a designer), but it's not exactly light and lofty which is how I think studios should be!

I call mine the office, the study sounds pretentious!

@Playingoutinthedark

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.

Exactly this

I work at an airport. The baggage sorting area is the bag hole and the hangar is the shed but I refer to my workplace as a whole as 'the office'. Have done for years.

Study/rabbit room/toy room. It’s no longer the junk room which is progress. To be fair, we moved in 4 years ago and wondered what the “study” would be best used as… never actually thought it would be a study but here we are and in May 2020 we purchased a desk and made it official.

Study

Little bedroom or Rory's room (cat not child).

Your office/my office/dads office/mums office depending on whom I’m speaking to.

Study. It is downstairs, has a big desk, some shelves and a printer and no bed so is definitely not a spare room.

I wfh as I'm self-employed. I spent ages calling the room I worked in "the small spare room", as I also have another much nicer and larger spare room. And, then realised this was a bit silly, took out the single bed, and have now turned into a proper office, which is what I now call it. I find its really helpful, as it means I can put all my work (and my work thoughts) in one room, and shut the door at the end of the day.

Mine is in what was the playroom, but as my kids are now 19 (and away at uni) and 15 it hasn't really been a playroom for some time.
I am increasingly calling it my study, although it also has a sofa and tv with older gaming consoles which they still play on occasionally.

The room is multi purpose these days. There are two Ikea chairs that make down into beds, a cupboard, TV, two bookcases, my desk and office chair plus a PC, two widescreen monitors, headset, mouse and keyboard.

I call it my office.

DH and I have "my room", "your room" and "our room". My room is also the spare room where guests stay but I got rid of the spare wardrobe and put a desk in there for working.

'My room' (work space and craft stuff) he has 'his room' (work room and play room) and we have 'our room' where we sleep. DS(adult) has the office and his bedroom. And the house still isn't bloody big enough.

Mine is my 'hidey hole'

My office (to differentiate from DH's office).

We all it the office.
It is set up as an office, it has desks, filling cabinets, computers, it's an office

Yes it would be called the office, who are you talking to that needs to know which office you are referring to.

If it's the kids to find someone or something, dads office or my office, but in general chat surely it's just "the " office if you don't like saying DHs office,

I’m in what used to be the dining room. We always eat in the kitchen, even when I have guests so it hasn’t been a dining room for years.
And the dining table has long gone replaced by my desk. But I also have the sideboard and China cabinet and other assorted junk.

It still doesn’t feel right to call it my office though.

Upstairs spare bedroom for me. There is no bed in there.

DH works in the study. I work in the dining room.

We have a veeerrry small room in our house which used to be ds2 bedroom (could only fit the cot in) before we extended to get a three bed house…. After his room, it was my office which was never used as an office as I rarely wfh at that point so was actually called “the dumping ground”, then it became an actual office when I started doing much more wfh. So it’s the office now lol

The living room or the kitchen. I used to have a spare room (office) but now I have another child and vague plans to move house instead.

Redcrayons we also have a dining room like that. It contains a sofa bed, a TV and a fishtank. But 10 years ago - before we extended the kitchen - it also contained a dining table, so "dining room" it is.

Our friends are often confused.

The study.

The ironic thing is that since I started working from home (March last year) I haven't used the study for work at all and instead work on the dining table (the dog loves me being home all day and struggles with the stairs so he lays near me).
Our new house has a large study and I will HAVE to work from there (no-way will my wife allow me work from the dining table or living room) so it will feel a bit odd being shut away.
As for the poor old dog, I will have to make lots of trips downstairs to see him!