To ask where you work if you work from home?

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We have a 3 bedroom house. At the moment it's just DSD, DH and I. DH and I share a bedroom, DSD has a bedroom and the 3rd bedroom is a study. DH does a lot of work from home so ideally needs a separate place to work. We're thinking of TTC and I know it's a long way off but where would you have your study / do work?

I have a dedicated study. It is actually in what could or should be my sitting-room, but due to the odd configuration of my house, my sitting-room is "upstairs" at garden level (house built on sloping land).
Could you extend anywhere to build dedicated office space?

We have a four bed. DH uses the smallest bedroom as a study, and I have mine downstairs in a little room off the hall, which I like because of the view, nd the fact it has two windows.

Other people we know have a properly-insulated and heated shed in the garden as an extra study space.

IN the last house (which was our 3rd and then the biggest we had had) it had 2 living rooms but also a third small one which even had two entrances - one form the house and one through a separate side door and I when I started working from home that separate room was my office but it was always where my husband taught the piano so all day Saturday and quite a few days after school he would need access to it so I had to move elsewhere.

When we moved we looked for a house with 4 separate closed of downstairs living rooms which did not lead off any other room (quite hard to find) and we found it - they all lead off the hall way so I work in one and one of the first things we did as I got it kitted out by Neville Johnson office furniture and that is where I work and only I work. We used another living room for the piano and organ for teaching etc, one for TV and the new baby twins in the day and the 4th with grand piano as a second sitting toom often used by the odler 3 teenagers ) all one family/set of parents and 5 children, then. The youngest 2 are at university now so not quite as much pressure on space.

I always felt it was a bit unfair as a child that my father who worked as a consultant'/doctor for the NHS had when I was abohut 10 a consulting and waiting room built on the house and my mother only had the kitchen to herself. It is one reason I understood when I went to university that she took over my bed room and also slept in there and moved back out in university holidays . Even when my parents had the kitchen extended which gave her more space it was not really a whole area to herself.

Some people build a wooden room in the garden. I have seen some lovely ones. If you are not in a conservation area (we are) I think you can build those without planning consent but do check the rules.

If the step daughte rlives with you full time perhaps have the new baby in your own room for a year in a carry cot on the floor which is what we tended to do for the first year to aid breastfeeding at night etc and then after a year reassess the situation. I think a cot in the study which is only used for nightt ime with the baby once it is out of your room having a nap in your room in the day might be one solution if the study will fit a cot for a 1 year old and a desk.

Our third bedroom is a study. However, my DH is sat downstairs at the dining room table.

I just sit in the living room. There isn't enough space in my house for a dedicated room and I can't afford to move so just make do.

I work from home and have a desk in a little alcove in the kitchen. Sometimes can be a nightmare but tight on space

In bed! Pregnant at the moment and feeling really unwell so it’s all I can manage.

I work at the dining table or on the sofa. Long term plan is to split the playroom into two so that we have a study but that's a while off yet!

I have an office, though tbh I tend to move round the house a bit depending on how I feel.
In your case, if your dsd isn't with you full time I'd have a desk in her bedroom that your dhs stuff gets packed away into when she's there

Thanks all DSD doesn't live with us at the moment though who knows in the future. She currently comes every other weekend friday to Monday and half school holidays.

I bought this gorgeous little desk in M&S and created a study area at the back of my living room. I love it and everyone remarks on the desk.

www.marksandspencer.com/bradshaw-desk/p/p22393619

In the study. It’s one of the main downstairs rooms in the house, but given DH and I are both self-employed and do a considerable amount of prep at home, it seems reasonable to devote a sizeable space to it! We do still have 2 other reception rooms and a kitchen though, so not impinging on our living space. We tried to have a working “space” in the sitting room of our last house, but just ended up spreading our work over the kitchen table. Not sustainable, and a main reason we moved!

We have a four bed house, I have converted 9n bedroom into a studio, as it has the best light

We each have a home office as both work from home to varying degrees. We also have a summerhouse outside that I am planning longer-term to make into my office but I haven't got round to it yet! Lately though my office has been in bed beside DD while she naps

When we lived in our last tiny house, my 'office' was a corner of the living room, but it was crap and really distracting.

I sit at my kitchen table. But I don't have anyone else home during the day (except the cat) and it's only infrequently. I enjoy being able to glance out of the window and have tea close at hand.

We each have a dedicated home office. Since we were both telecommuting exclusively when we bought the house, space for offices was on the must have list.

I work on the breakfast bar in our kitchen, but there is no-one else in the house to disturb me. It also means I can face the front door which, as I often arrange to work from home when we've got deliveries or workmen coming, is a bonus.

At the dining table. I'm an Illustrator and it's the only place with enough space. I would desperately LOVE a proper studio/dedicated room if we move house one day. I get major studio envy

I had a custom made desk the length of my bed room so when I'm not working it just looks like a dressing table and can be used as both.

I work from the sofa or in bed if the mood takes me. I could have a dedicated work area in my living room if I wanted, I suppose, however I have never felt it was necessary. I suppose it all depends on how active your household is whilst you are trying to work. I am in the house alone and can go where I please and talk on the phone as much as I like without disturbance.

If I had people passing by or interrupting me all the time I would find a dedicated space more necessary.

Third bedroom which we have converted to a study for DH as he is home based. I usually work from home in the kitchen or downstairs.

In an office. When we extended our house we deliberately factored in a small room for an office. It's a family office not just mine. So there's a spare desk for dcs to use if they want to revise away from their bedrooms. We have filing cabinets with everyone's documents - certificates, passports, wills, insurance docs etc. A printer for general use, a safe etc etc. Really useful having all that sort of stuff in one room.

I work from home and we converted the garage to a little office. I have an oil heater for the winter that's very effective, but the garage was quite hot in the summer, so I need to sort that next year.

I wish we had built in a separate study when we extended our house.
We're lucky that we have a spare bedroom so have a desk all set up in there to work at when we don't have visitors.

I have quite a big bedroom so I have a proper desk/chair in there. The only downside to that is if I’m feeling a bit tired, the bed is dangerously close