To think you can work from home from a bedroom?

[FiveHoursSleep]

We live in a decent sized 4 bedroom semi with a good sized study downstairs, but have 4 kids, so our youngest two share. The trouble is they are an almost 8 yr old boy and an almost 10 yo girl and understandably, this arrangement is not working very well any more.
My DH has had the study to himself for the last 9 years and he does have both a work and a personal computer in there, but he works from home maybe once a month ( more like once every two months). Sometimes he has to quickly check something in the middle of the night, but this is once a year, every 6 months- so not very often.
I work from home every day and have a desk in the through lounge
I want DH to clear out of the study so our eldest can have his study as a bedroom. We don't have a lot of space for a desk for him but we could fit a one in our bedroom.
We've discussed the possibility of extending , or a loft conversion or a garden office but the house needs rewiring ( then decorating), and we also need new windows so the money would be better spent on that.
AI really BU to be asking him to work from our bedroom? He says it's ridiculous and it's not my ideal either, but I think it's more important for the kids to have their own bedrooms.
Of course I could move upstairs to the bed room and let him have my desk downstairs but I'm at home more often than he is, and like to be able to keep an eye on what the kids are up to when they are home from school.
The older two are 12 and 13 year old girls and they have a small room each; asking them to share would result in WW3!

Have you considered a partial loft conversion op? For your dh to use as his office.

We've done that to ours. Installed two windows, run up wiring to put 'proper' lighting in, insulated and plastered the loft and put boards and carpet down. It has a slanted, pull up ladder. It was minimal cost (compared to a 'proper' loft conversion) - about £200 for the windows, £300 for the insulation/plastering/carpet/electrics. But dh is very handy and did most of the work himself, like laying the carpet and hammering the boards up.

The difference is that we can't officially class our loft as a bedroom. There's a load of extra stuff that needs to be done/complied with for a full conversion like double boarding the ceilings below for fire risk and ensuring a minimum head height and stair gradient and such. Which is the stuff that costs £££££ and also the stuff that is largely unnecessary if all you are looking for is additional 'occasional' space rather than sleeping quarters.

Our loft has one beam running right down the middle at about thigh height which you have to step over. We painted it (and all the other beams, in between the plasterboards) white and it's actually quite a quirky feature. You couldn't have a game of chase in there but it's functional for sitting at a desk. Dh worked from home for a year in our partial loft conversion - it's a perfectly comfortable, light, airy space which was also further away from the noise of the house which worked perfectly.

He uses it once a month at most? Get him out of there. He can build himself a shed office.

YANBU

I work from home 2 days per week from desk in bedroom. Said desk is set up with laptop stand at right height etc. When I've finished working I put away work laptop and put personal one on stand to play Candy Crush etc so don't associate area with day job.

I do feel sorry for him, his children must each have a room of their own, but he can't. I suspect his study is "his" room and the bedroom is just somewhere he sleeps.

No, you need a room to work in. I too think it's very important to have a separate space with a door you can shut.

It's nice to have a study, but needs must and sometimes you don't have a choice. (Apparently the op doesn't!)

There is no way (in my humble opinion) children of 8 and 10 of the opposite sex should be sharing.

I agree with otter, I think it's time for the two to have their own rooms.
What about a hideaway office, converting an understair space, or even a cupboard?
I suspect the poster who suggested he wants to have a 'mancave' is correct thpugh, in which case he needs to think of a garden office or converting a garage or loft.

My dh works from home one day a week. Everything is done on his laptop and mobile phone which he takes either into the sitting room or dining room. No fixed office space at all. Your dh is being very unreasonable imo.