Aibu to ask - if you permanent work from home - where is your office

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So- I have my own business and work from home. I currently work from my (admittedly very large) lounge. Have a desk which overlooks the garden etc.

Am about to move to a new home, and chances are I’ll end up using a bedroom as an office which I’ve never fancied. I’d previously worked at the kitchen table but not fancying going back to that,

Aibu to ask - if you have a home office - where is it and how do you find it?

We have three floors, so I have the landing on the top floor, next to our bedroom. I have desk, filing cabinet, bookcase and it feels very airy and bright.

DH has the dining room overlooking the garden; we eat in our big kitchen. He has the printer and photocopier in with him, plus the piano in there. It's a bit of a man cave really with all his art and running medals on the walls.

We were a disaster sharing the same office; I was too chatty, he was too silent and we used to sexually harass each other when we got bored

Laptop and paperwork set up on the dining table, Which is in the living room.
No room in the kitchen for a table and no room in any of the bedrooms to set up an office space.
Ideally I'd like to have a garden room built, So it felt more like \i was leaving the house and going to work IYSWIM?

Our house was built with a downstairs study, so thats my office (it has a lovely bay window, so I had a desk custom built to go there). However, I'm a fidget, so tend to move round the house with my laptop depending on what I'm doing.
When DH was also home based he had an office in a spare bedroom, but now he wfh one or two days a week but all his files etc live in the one of the actual offices he works out of so he's either in the sitting room or bedroom as he feels

In that house - the second bedroom. I'd hate the window being so might up in the wee room.

I have a small home office - 7ft x 11 ft - but the window is massive.

I'd want to be in the room with the red curtains and the lovely view.

It's a room on the first floor next to our bedroom and has the best view in the house! We have an odd layout and you have to walk through it to get to the guest room so we couldn't use it as a bedroom.

I've requisitioned a large bedroom at the front of the house, which has room for two sofas, as well as a desk. I like it to feel like a comfortable space rather than a cubby hole. I've also got space to spread papers out when I need to. I spend many more conscious hours in there than in an actual bedroom, so I think it makes sense to use a nice room for the purpose. I also really like being able to close the door on it all when I'm not working.

I've always used the smallest bedroom as have it set up as an office. Luckily, my previous employer provided the office furniture so I still have a proper chair and desk, screen and docking station for my laptop etc.

For the PP who asked what we do, I work for a large nationwide accountancy firm.

'My employer insists that full-time remote workers have a separate room in their house, not just a computer on the kitchen table.' YY to this - we have to fill out a self-assessment as to whatever set-up we use.
For people who only work from home every so often, they can work at dining tables etc but for those of us who do it all the time, I'm grateful for the oversight. I think it follows this guidance:www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf which you might find useful :)

Our attic was converted so I claimed it as my office space. Worked really well, when the dc were home they played in their bedrooms, living room or outside. So I always had peace and quiet.

For the poster that asked what we do:- I was a learning and development manager for a national organisation.

I work anywhere I can.
I have a pc, printer and desk in the garage don't spend a great deal of time in there. Most of my work is "hands on" making things, and I work in the sitting room- on the floor mostly, and in he kitchen. I would love a workroom, but 5 family members means no spare room right now. I have toyed with the idea of converting the garage, but my young adult children are likely to fly soon, so will leave a bedroom free for my work- that's the theory anyway!

I work from home, for a company, full time, I work from a laptop on the kitchen table.

In the dining room. I have an extendable round dining table on the right hand side of the room. My desk and office chair are on the left wall by a window. Have worked from home for 10 years. I hate working in a bedroom! I prefer a view out downstairs.

Dedicated study downstairs. Quite big and set up with everything I need.

I use the smallest bedroom. It’s entirely furnished as an office now with storage and desk etc.

Also the bedroom I use is at the front so I can see the path and whether or not to answer the door.

In that house OP, room number nine.
Fuck the boxroom.

I'm an artist and my studio is a big room in the house which opens onto the garden.

Smallest bedroom, I'd much rather have an office in the garden or a little caravan. It's hard to separate work from home.

I used to work on the table in the dining kitchen at our old house.

@bettybyebye 😂😂

Ours is the second bedroom (in a 2-bed house), but we don't have many overnight visitors. It's shared between OH and I as we both work from home a lot and has lots of built in storage in too, so it doubles up.

People on a course in my studio

I wfh every day and dh wfh a few rimes a week.
We work from the table in our (large) kitchen diner there's no where else. It works fine as all dc are old and out of the house mostly, although the table's a mess most of the time.
I'd love to have a space but all 4 bedrooms are taken and no where else is suitable.
I would like to make the integral garage into an office space but it's a gym.

I have my own office. we had a double garage that the previous owners had converted to a large room. We sectioned off a 2.5 x 2.5 bit at the front for my office and I have walls and a door! I love it - it's cosy, it always smells of coffee and it's separate enough from the rest of the house to be reasonably peaceful. The window looks out over the drive and street too so I don't feel isolated. That's what I would be worried about with your box room op, the window does look high up. I find you need that connection with the outside world when you wfh.

Dining room (which is in the middle of the house, and you need to walk through it to get anywhere else.) Or in bed on a lap tray.

Both rooms have a TV, which is on most of the time. I like background noise.