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?

I call mine GCHQ.

The spare room. It is set up as a study but also has a single bed in it.

We had a spare room in the previous house which DH used for WFH. It’s set up as an office so we called it office. It’s got a sofa bed as well but was very rarely used as a bedroom.

I call the room with the desk in it the study but we never work in there, dp prefers the living room and I never work from home now

I would call it a study - mine was a bedroom, still has a sofabed, lots of shelves and a narrowish table which I deem a desk

An acquaintance of mine has clearly channelled her inner Regency lady, and calls it her sewing room

I work in the study, which is a (small) dedicated room that's just office space - desk, bookshelf, filing cabinets, printer, pinboard etc.

DH works at a desk in the family room, which has sofabed, computer desk with DS's gaming computer, TV and DVDs, board games etc in it. It's much bigger than my study, but its multipurpose, where as my study is just mine. I think I get the better end of the deal (but I WfH full time nowand even before Covid I Wfh 2/3 days a week, and DH works from home 3 days a week now, and pre Covid not at all).

I had a room just like yours (OP) at our old house, although as well as my work stuff, craft stuff and nail stuff it also had my wardrobe and chest of drawers in it - so it was just My Room!

But I do have a dedicated room outside now (new house) so that's referred to as the office.

Our five year old calls it "the work room." So, naturally, we now all call it the work room, though if I have to clarify it to others I would tend to refer to it as being the study.

DH and I each have "my office" or "my room"

DH calls his the back room even though they're both at the back

I've told DD the day she moves out, all the bookcases are going in her room and it's being renamed The Library. Pretentious as hell, but I don't care 😂

I use office but it is an office. I've always been wfh and one of the reasons we chose this house was because of the ease of setting up an office room. It's a three storey house so we have bedrooms on top floor lounge and kitchen diner then this downstairs room people tend to use as an office/bedroom/playroom etc.

The only difference is since Covid I have to share it with every other fucker in my house so it's a lot more cramped these days!

The kitchen or the conservatory!

The spare room (listed as a bedroom when we bought the house but has never had a bed in since we moved in and is tiny) is Dad's office, except between March and July 2020 when it was the schoolroom / Mum's office.

I do use it occasionally if DP has actually left the house for work (about twice a month) but actually prefer seeing the garden from my desk to seeing the street.

Mine's called the study. It was called that on the floor plan when I bought the house and it's sort of stuck. I don't call it that to anyone outside of the family though - I'd feel a bit Hyacinth!!!!!

The office.

I WFH 4/5 days a week and it has all the officey things in it (desk, chair, printer, computer, 3 or 4 emoty coffee cups going slightly mouldy; that kind of thing).

Why is it pretentious to call it an office?

It has a chair in it that’s designed to sit in while working at a desk. I call that an ‘office chair’ but perhaps that’s pretentious too…

It has a flat surface in it that goes up and down, and which has on it some monitors, printer, keyboard etc. I pretentiously call that my ‘desk’.

It has specially built cupboards in it that have hangers for filed paperwork. I call those my ‘filing cabinets’. I know… totally up my own arse.

The black thing in it that spews out paper related to my work I call a ‘printer’.

I go into my ‘office’ in the morning and stay there most of the day. I call that ‘work’.

Each month people send me money in return for the time I spend in my ‘office’. I call that ‘pay’ and I then have to give some of that pay back to the government for something they call ‘tax’.

It’s an office. What else would it be?

My husband has worked at home for years. He used to have a study. Then we had a child so he worked in the spare room. Then we let the room so he moved to working in the living room.
Now we no longer let the spare room but he has stayed in the living room. One third is his work space, one third is the dining table and one third is the sofas and TV. A lot crammed in to a room only 20 feet long and half as wide!

Currently he is working, I'm watching TV with headphones and our teen and their friend are on their iPad and phone with headphones.
Thank goodness for headphones!

After 20 months I still can't decide!

It was the au pair's room and I didn't use it for the first few months of lockdown. But when I realised that by the time life was anything like normal (ie not for at least 2 years) we wouldn't be having an AP again I started using it. I swing between 'my office' and 'the spare room', but sometimes it's "the cat's room'

I call it my office even though it's also my craft room and has a sofa and TV in it. TV is out of Zoom view and the desk end of the room is tidy and professional (since Zoom became a thing, anyway -was a bit of a shambles before! ).