Dining room as office - set up horrible

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Dh works from home and needs a number if screens. Currently in dining room as only space available but the dining room is a mess. It has his deck abd screens, computer chair, small storage unit. Them it has a folding dining table, folding chairs, small sofa,TV and stand. It's such a mixed room. We (i) do use it for watching TV in evenings and we eat breakfast and some dinners ( depends on meeting times for dh).
I just hate the room as it looks a mess, it's functional but horrible. Anyone else have similar set up?

Yep same here, hate it

I work in my dining room. Also have multiple screens etc. But… we eat in the kitchen and have a kitchen table. We used to use the dining room but no longer. The dining table is pushed against a wall and that is now my large desk. We have a comfy chair, but our sofa is in the living room. TV is also in living room. Dining room has table, comfy chair, lots of shelving, piano.

@Dillydallydilly itsso annoying isn't it! I'm sitting here looking at the room but can't see how to make it any better!

@daisypond our kitchen is too small. We do use living room but if we want to watch different things it's been great to have 2 rooms and 2 tellies. Not sure what to do.

Do you have a living room as well? Can you make it a tv lounge/diner and use the dining room an office/storage/dumping room that you can shut the door on?

Could you ditch the second TV and sofa from the dining room/office and if people want to watch different things, some do it on laptops/tablets in the kitchen or bedrooms?

You're basically trying to fit three rooms worth of stuff into one room, which is never going to work unless the room is massive.

On the desk issue, if you want to avoid having it visible when DH is not working, is there any way that it can be screened off, for example fitting sliding/folding doors or behind a screen?

Can he go back to the office?

Thanks all. No he can't go to office as no office!
I think I might have to @BarbaraofSeville ,itsonly when I don't t to watch football really!

He can go watch Footie on his monitors or out at the pub

If he wants the football on, he can watch it in the dining room! I'd not be going in there at all if it felt this depressing.

Dh did that for the first year of lockdown. Drove me crazy. We now have a little study which he squashes in which is better. At least I can get a biscuit from the cupboard without him saying "isn't dinner soon?"
We can still hear his discussions at full volume as it doesn't have a door to close him off, but it's much better.

I offered him the choice of the garage (unconnected to the house), the loft (preferably with the loft hatch closed) or sitting in the garden. He sorted the study himself which was a very good thing for the rest of us.

My sympathies.

It's hard to say without a layout. If you can't build in a kind of office corner could you move the tv up to the bedroom? You could watch tv in bed and save space on that and the sofa?