How do you both work from home?

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DH has always worked from home 4 days a week, has the large converted attic which large computers and exercise equipment also up there. I'm applying for wfh jobs after working in a school for 15 years. My question is how do you people work from home? Where does the 2nd person literally go? I don't want to end up stuck in the kitchen on a dining chair until the kids come home then having to balance my laptop on my knees for 2 more hours sat on the coach! No room in bedroom at all for a desk or chair and no spare bedroom. Thanks all

DH is in a tiny office that also hosts the boiler and washing machine.

I work school hours so have a desk in my dd's bedroom.

This.

Both wfh.
Dh has the main office ( ie smallest bedroom)
I have a workshop in cellar and use living room for computer based stuff

We each have our own office. Husband’s is more centrally located. Mine is more isolated because when dd was little, I was the one that had to be hidden away if child care was in the home while we were working.

Husband has the study. I have the damp leaking conservatory.

I sit on the couch, on the recliner with the laptop on a cushion 😁

I’ve tried a desk, kitchen table, dining room table and it’s by far the comfiest place for me. Don’t know if my back will thank me in the future right enough.

He’s in the kitchen, I’m in the bedroom. By next year we should have a room to convert to a study which we’ll share.

Tiny house person chiming in here. DH has a desk in the living room and I’m on the kitchen table. It works fine as no one else needs to use the rooms while we’re working! We take lunch at the same time. No biggie.

Desk in bedroom which can fold down when needed. Lots on Amazon. Can’t work in kitchen or dining due to video calls.

You absolutely need your own dedicated space if you and your DH are both going to WFH. Sharing space doesn’t work - think work calls scheduled at the same time and also confidentiality.

We are lucky to have an l shaped lounge diner and a separate dining room.

Dh has permanent set up in the far corner of the dining area of the lounge round a corner - 2 screens etc

I work on the dining table we actually use I have a cupboard for my equipment which I can put up and down in less than 30 seconds, I also have a "nice" office chair which I use all the time.

Conservatory too hot/cold and too much glare

We couldn't work next to each other I'm on calls and would drive him mad.

It works for us and has done for 2/3 years now

If we’re both WFH, one of us in the office - usually husband as he NEEDS three screens, and I work from the dining table. I have spare screen as well so if I really need 2 screens I can just plug my laptop in.
no issues.

We are fortunate enough to have two home offices, on separate floors

I cannot praise WFH enough

Queation Re. Big home?

Yes, we live abroad and have a big house. I'm actually in the conservatory and DH is part of the basement.

Not to sound facetious, but do you have a shed you could convert??

Me in the living room, DH in garden office. Works for us

DH has the tiny box room, I have a desk set up in a corner of the living room. But kids are not home during working hours, and we also have a sofa/ TV set up in the kitchen/ diner if I work in the evenings.
during Covid, we were in a much smaller property - one desk tucked away in the spare room, the other desk in a corner of the bedroom. Both small. The main thing for me is not actually the desk (although that is important), but not having the kids home for any of my work day!

I wouldn’t apply for 100% working from home if you don’t have anywhere to work at home. Maybe you can do hybrid working? Use your husband’s office when he’s at work. Maybe make him work in the kitchen one day a week so you get 2 days?

2 bed place, we take a bedroom each and my mum is looked after in the living room

Our adult child left home and we added a table in the bigger bedroom and moved on wardrobe in the living room for more space and fitted there 2 seater sofa, this is how we live for now

DH wfh 3 days a week. He has an office area 2 screens and a laptop) in our open plan lounge/kitchen. I wfh one day a week. I lay on the sofa with a wedge cushion and just a laptop. I prefer it to sitting at the table.
Both happy with that.

We did a garage conversion to create an office apace

DH has the study, I have the box room.

When Lockdown happened, our DC came home to live along with DS' girlfriend. So 5 adults in a 3.5 bed house. I had a fold up camping table in the living room which I screened off with a folding room divider in the evening so I didn't have to look at my work space in my "downtime".

Those who have garden rooms - do you leave your equipment, laptops etc, in it overnight or bring everything into the house?

We like different spaces.

DH prefers the living area/kitchen table setup as he likes pacing up and down, nipping out in the garden for fresh air and generally getting in the fucking way. I don't know how nobody ever decked him back when he used to work in person. He also just uses a laptop so it would get put away when he's finished anyway. I however have a dedicated space upstairs.

My husband has a desk in our bedroom. I am downstairs - often in the living room, sometimes at the dining table (but it is freezing in there) and you’re right - v distracting once our son comes home… but I finish at five so usually manage to put up with the noise.

We have only one office. The days I go to the office DH works from home and viceversa.

if we both work from home on the same day fir whatever reason there is a desk with a monitor in the master bedroom.