Where does your teen do homework?

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(hums green eggs and ham...)
I'm looking into getting a desk/ sorting out our space. At the moment Teen1 does homework on the breakfast bar or on the dining table. Which is subject to "can you make space for dinner". (Almost)Teen2 will need some space too. And they get so much homework! I'm keeping homework out of the bedrooms (too small & too many distractions).
Obvs homework area is subject to limitations of space: how do you do it?

On the island in the kitchen. We can eat at the table so nothing needs to be moved out the way.

DD2 y9 dining room table, occasionally small desk in her bedroom. She needs a fair amount of help so it is easier if she is nearby.

DD1 was mainly in her bedroom as DD2 was downstairs playing.

In his room, at his desk.

In university term time - in her sister's room at a desk

When her sister's around - in her own room scattered all over the floor.

She does have a small desk in her room but covers it in junk so doesn't use it. Rarely does homework downstairs unless I'm helping her with it (just maths really - only subject I still know more than her at!)

On her bed or sitting on the floor with laptop/books strewn around her. Thinking of ditching her desk because it's just used to pile stuff on.

Thanks for the responses.
A desk in the bedroom is not an option for us: not enough room but also Teen1 is a messy kid . (Mominatrix: you must have a self-disciplined kid )

I am very wary of the first law of mess: that mess expands to fit the space it's given. The neatest home I ever had was when the 4 of us were living in a teeny tiny 2 bed apartment. I suppose the breakfast bar thing is good precisely because space has to be managed...

DD has a desk in her bedroom which is covered in junk. She does her homework on her knee in bed

On his knee sat on his bed...has a desk but its covered in stuff (mainly pokemon cards at the minute)

One just sat on the bed surrounded by a messy pile of paperwork.

The other didn't study at all.

Sorry I realise you said homework not study (we are in exam season here!)

One - same set up on the bed, they have a desk etc, and the choice of a table downstairs but natural ness seems to the her way!

The other did it in school at break/lunch/another subject if they were ahead (regular occurrence) very rarely did homework at home.

On her knee on the bed as she doesn't have a desk (room too small). Sometimes she does it at the living room table.

DS has the smallest bedroom with no space for a standard desk, so DH made a tiny one out of a piece of kitchen worktop and some legs from IKEA.

On the school bus 😬
Sometimes during lunch break.
I despair!
His brother did the same, he still managed to pass all his exams with good grades ( no idea how)

On the dining table. Only 3 of us so sometimes rather than being tidied away books etc can be squished to one corner.

My teenager has a nice desk and chose a fancy, comfy big swivel chair , shelves for his books and so on. All in his bedroom. I had extra sockets put in next to his desk so he could use his laptop and printer there more easily.

So of course 99/100 he does his homework whilst sprawled across the carpet in the living room, whilst shouting at anyone who distracts him. Or he does it during morning registration because he forgot he even had any homework...

Mine had desks in their bedrooms but always use the dining table (open plan) or living room floor. Even now they are older they like to be near me to ask questions (I can't answer)

They have a desk each downstairs but never sit at it, good for keeping stuff on and as a launch pad for getting ready for school.
They also have a desk each in their room but also doesn’t get sat at.
Dd2 has a small sofabed and table and work sort of gets strewn out around this area, all over the floor and other furniture.
With dd1 there’s no strewing and despite having a laptop she claims to do most of her work via word apps etc on her phone apparently lying prone on her bed and prints them out from there.
They are both good students, they can always find everything and never don’t hand things in on time.
The advantage to allowing homework in bedrooms is that teen brains are often most productive and awake fairly late in the evening, and sometimes you just have to go with Biology.

They both have desks in their rooms. They also use the desk in the study if they need to print.

Breakfast bar for computer stuff, dining table for written

We have a storage box for toys/games & homework stuff sits in piles on the top - 'to do', 'part done' (but moved for dinner) and 'completed ready to hand in'

All over the house, to my irritation, he has a very nice study room of his own with a huge desk (we live in a town house & he has the top two rooms and a shower room to himself but he rarely uses that. Sometimes he uses the dining room, other times the office where the PC is, (which DH who works a lot from home needs) books left all over the house ..... I am trying not to get too annoyed in the run up to A levels, Goodness knows how he will cope with a small study bedroom at Uni, assuming he gets there. .

Mine have desks in their rooms but we've discovered they concentrate better doing it at the kitchen table with a parent in the room.
We have a wide shelf nearby where half done work sits.

WOW!
What a variation. I love that our kids are their own people and find their ways of getting the job done.
Eva: Word apps on phone, that scares me, although credit to her for being paperless.
On knees, on the bed, on the floor, the bus ... As long as it gets done.
Teen1 has a spinal condition that means she needs to sit properly (doctor's orders) (although more significant may be her messiness condition )
I am thinking that a desk is best out of the bedroom if a kid is not naturally neat. Such kids do exist but not in my house.
I'm going to shuffle the dining room so that there is space for the homework and a decent chair and free up some space for books to land and keep the computer on the breakfast bar for now. phew!

He has a small desk in kitchen/diner, with shelves where he keeps his books, pens etc, or if he needs to spread out he uses the kitchen table.

We have a converted small single garage as an extra room downstairs. Its not a huge room but has a full sized corner office desk (huge solid desk with trunking and built in power sockets, was a £50 bargain off Gumtree) an Ikea office chair, desktop PC and various office storage cupboards and shelves to try to keep it clear/tidy. The room is cramped as it also has the tumble drier, treadmill (gathering dust) and ds's weight bench all crammed in.

ds uses it for homework/study, I use it to WFH at least once a week, dh uses it for paperwork (self employed). Good room as any of us can hide and MN shut the door, stick the radio on low to block out household noise, and get on with work. I use it during school hours, ds uses after school and dh gets 3rd priority whenever its free!

Sometimes at the kitchen table, sometimes in their bedroom at desks. An increasing amount of our secondary school homework is online, all Maths, a lot of Science, some Spanish or can be done using a computer which my son prefers, so he does that on his PC in his bedroom. They are both quite focused when there's homework to be done, they know the sooner it's done the sooner it's back to doing something they want to do. Revision is mostly done downstairs at the kitchen table as I know it's done better without the distractions of tv, computer etc in his bedroom and it's harder to check it's done than a piece of homework. I'm not a strict parent, they are good kids so I don't have to be, but they both know that schoolwork is the one thing I am more strict with and expect homework and revision done well without exception.