Do you have a room of your own?

[Pruni]

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I wish.... I don't even have a bedroom for just me and dp (13 month ds is still in our room)

No, and I would like one. Just a corner would do...in the next house, we should have a dining room which I intend to adopt as 'my' room - a comfy chair, reading/sewing light, stereo and no TV etc.
(Just mentioned this to dh and he said 'you have a room now - the kitchen!' (Grrrr )

I will if we get the place we saw!! bliss. I can tell you how it will be: one wall covered with books. a fireplace and two super-cosy armchairs that belonged to my garnparents to snuggle in. oh and a desk with a comp looking out onto the park!!
please pray for me!

oh, and the kitchen of corse!

When/if we move dp and I both want rooms of our own to do 'stuff'!His will hopefully be outside though as the drums are getting a bit much

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I dream of one.

It will have walls of books, an armchair (or possibly a chaise longue), and a desk with a pot of pencils and a vase of flowers on looking out over the garden.

'In the next house' DH wants the outbuildings as a workshop / office / garage, so I reckon I have a strong claim to either the smallest bedroom or the attic.

Oh, and Franny has one .

same as you jelley! we also share with our 13 mo.

i'd LOVE to have my own space...

i have one
its got my sewing machine, a tv, stereo and some jewellery making bits in there......is meant to be a store room...but as i have a loft for storing i thought i'd be greedy and nab it for myself
its light blue with lots of artwork created by ds

No, but i would love one.

It would have big windows for lots of light, lots of storage space a desk big enough for my sewing machine and space for cutting out.

I get fed up with with having to get things out to do after dd has gone to bed, to then have to put it all away before i go to bed.

I have been asking DH to convert the garage for me since we moved in 2002, now because i am pregnant again he has decided to do as i need his office (4th bedroom) as a spare room, he has been using it since we moved in

No. I never have.

i have one- but share with dd sometimes and dh ends up in here too( which makes me annoyed as he has his computer in the shed)
it is painted pale almond green and i have my computer on my granny's old butter making table.I also have a pink chaise longue( also ex granny) a table and box shlving with wool, paper and stationary, all my handbags, and magazines. i have a book shelf with all my cookery books etc( bought be dh for xmas)
i have all our bills and paperwork in two filing cabinets. it was hard fought but i love it.

i have one- but share with dd sometimes and dh ends up in here too( which makes me annoyed as he has his computer in the shed)
it is painted pale almond green and i have my computer on my granny's old butter making table.I also have a pink chaise longue( also ex granny) a table and box shelving with wool, paper and stationary, all my handbags, and magazines. i have a book shelf with all my cookery books etc( bought be dh for xmas)
i have all our bills and paperwork in two filing cabinets. it was hard fought but i love it.dh calls it the mumsnet room

i've got one, it is painted dark dusky pink and has all my books, sewing machine and a lovely table that my parents got me from the gladstone library in wales. it gets the evening sun.

dp has a little room too but with revolting stripy vinyl wallpaper becuase we have run out of money to finish doing up house.

i am in love with MrsB's garden room with its pots of pencils...

i would like a separate building completely
at the bottom of the garden

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When dp and I first moved in together I did. We had a 2-bedroomed flat with a huge lounge so we used the bedrooms as a study each (we were both writing PhDs and working from home so it made sense). It was bliss! Then we shared the big open plan lounge / kitchen area almost as a bedsit where we ate, played music, slept, watched t.v. etc.

When dd came I'd finished my PhD, went to work only part-time so didn't need my room and we turned it into dd's room. I mourned that room for about 2 years.

So when we moved although there's not enough space for me to have a room now we use our bedroom as dp's study and I mostly have the lounge to myself. I have a very cosy corner by the window with all my things around me so it'll do for now!

WE will have a spare study at our new house which we want to turn into a kind of reading room. sounds poncey but I have tonnes of books which get on dh's nerves so will put bookcases, desk, comfy chair in it. I expect it'll become my room by default as he hardly ever reads and will have his own office. Am really looking forward to it, although now you mention it, I wonder how much use it would get

All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air.
With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly?
Lots of choc'late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin' lots of heat.
Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn't it be loverly?
Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still!
I would never budge 'til Spring crept over my window sill.
Someone's head restin' on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be,
Who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn't it be loverly?
Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.

If only

I used to, now I share it with DP - but it's a lovely room, we call it the Library (delusions of grandeur here) and it is lined with books, has 2 arched gothic windows, and a big sofa. and 2 computer desks and equipment which rather spoil the effect but we need them for work.

sometimes I want to move Dp out and keep it just as my room but he's a bit resistant. We use it a lot as we both work from home quite a bit.

There's a book by Virginia Woolf called "A Room of One's Own" in which she says that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" - but I think the fiction bit is more about independent thought etc. So there you go - a bit of early feminism for a Friday morning

I don't, unless you count the utility room as I am the only one that goes in there. I suppose you could call my walk in wardrobe my room too. Dh has his study and the kids have a playroom so our living room is exclusively an adult space.

i LONG for a playroom to enable the living room to be adults only

I know, it is bliss, not a peice of plastic tat in sight

i do, we've split a bedroom and made ds's room smaller and a study for me. it's where i work from, and only finished decorating it at the weekend, carpet was fitted monday. its got a 'L' shaped desk with the computer and my sewing machine on, shelves with all my books on, lots of boxes full of thread, fabric, buttons, beads etc. need to put up a big noticeboard at the weekend.

dh has a wooden cabin in the garden as his studio. it all sounds very idylic doesn't it, but we've moved to a bigger house. prior to this dh rented studio space and it cost more than our mortgage once you'd included business rates. it was more economical to buy a bigger house and both of us work from home.

No, but I wish I did.

It would a very girly room if i could though.

Four poster bed, white wool carpet, pale lilac walls, very big ornate mirror over a white dressing table which has fresh lillies on it.

Very comfy chaise longue in front of a large window and a full wall bookcase filled with all my favourite authors books. No television, but a hifi discretly hidden away in a large french baroque armoire. Oh and I'd wanted the Emperor Swarovski crystal chandelier.

Can you tell I've thought of this