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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Is there a room in your home that you use exclusively for work?".
This poll was originally submitted by ViktoriaG. View the poll results »
| | | | Julian Holmes 
Japan
Local time: 08:18
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
It's my office. Isn't that what everybody calls it? 
| | | | Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 01:18
Member (2006)
German to English
And when we bought our flat, it was a must that I had a separate area to work in, away from everyone.
Does not work all the time, but when I really ave to get stuck into things, then I tell eveyone that I am too busy to "play".
Sometimes I do work in the flat, but I am not quite as productive ....
| | | | Britt Laux
Local time: 01:18
German to Norwegian
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I sometimes do other things in here too, like reading or writing private e-mails
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Ventnai
Spain
Local time: 01:18
German to English
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The room that I use is my office and wardrobe - not as bad as it sounds
| | | | Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 01:18
Member (2009)
English to German
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B. D. Laux wrote:
I sometimes do other things in here too, like reading or writing private e-mails
My office is integrate dinto my living room and vice versa.
| | | | DianeGM
Local time: 02:18
Member (2006)
Dutch to English
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Actually I have work stations in various rooms.
My main work station is in a corner of the first floor which is the open plan living/dining/kitchen. I don't like to work in complete silence or isolation all the time. I just schedule the jobs requiring that for times no-one else is home or set up camp in another quieter room.
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It's a bedroom converted into an office. I've had a dedicated office since before I started freelancing 20 years ago. I also use it while I'm writing (I just published a book), studying, paying my bills, doing e-mail, and hanging out on ProZ. It has two desks, numerous file cabinets, and bookshelves lining the walls. The bookshelves contain dozens of dictionaries, style manuals, software manuals, books in my field, books with chapters I've written, etc., etc. It's quite comfortable, and I spend ... See more It's a bedroom converted into an office. I've had a dedicated office since before I started freelancing 20 years ago. I also use it while I'm writing (I just published a book), studying, paying my bills, doing e-mail, and hanging out on ProZ. It has two desks, numerous file cabinets, and bookshelves lining the walls. The bookshelves contain dozens of dictionaries, style manuals, software manuals, books in my field, books with chapters I've written, etc., etc. It's quite comfortable, and I spend most of my waking hours here. ▲ Collapse
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XXXphxxx (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:18
Portuguese to English
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In some countries (e.g. the UK), there are tax implications to using a room in your home exclusively for work - something perhaps worth considering.
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with a computer or three, books, drawers, desk, archive boxes, shelving, heating, printer, scanner, 2xUPS, modem, router, networked storage... And a window with a view.
I wouldn't be allowed to have all this mess in the kitchen, the bedroom or the living room.
Philippe
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 01:18
Spanish to English
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Nothing exclusive. My main PC/office area is in my open-plan living room-kitchen. I also have a backup PC in the spare bedroom and laptops if anyone wants to work elsewhere, for example on the terrace, in the garden or beside the pool, although I usually prefer to work indoors and only really work outside in summer at night when it gets too hot inside.
| | | | | I call it my cage :-) | Dec 7, 2012 |
It used to be our son's bedroom, but since he has left home and returns occasionally with a wife, they need more space than the little room I have taken over. There is a better view from the guest room, too.
Really there is masses of space for me, a so-called proofreading table, three bookcases, computers and a cup of coffee, but I can't remember how we ever fitted a full-sized bed in once the lad grew out of the cot!! The proofreading table is an old desk where he kept treasures an... See more It used to be our son's bedroom, but since he has left home and returns occasionally with a wife, they need more space than the little room I have taken over. There is a better view from the guest room, too.
Really there is masses of space for me, a so-called proofreading table, three bookcases, computers and a cup of coffee, but I can't remember how we ever fitted a full-sized bed in once the lad grew out of the cot!! The proofreading table is an old desk where he kept treasures and did his homework.
I do not work in the rest of the house, but a certain amount of other things go on in here too, like surfing for recipes for supper!
In Denmark the tax considerations are the other way - you cannot claim an allowance if any of your private life so much as crosses the threshold... so most freelancers don't try! It's not worth the trouble for the peanuts concerned. ▲ Collapse
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John Cutler
Spain
Local time: 01:18
Spanish to English
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Ian Jones wrote: The room that I use is my office and wardrobe - not as bad as it sounds
I thought I was the only working among clothes and drawers.
| | | | NataliaAnne
Brazil
Local time: 20:18
Portuguese to English
John Cutler wrote: Ian Jones wrote: The room that I use is my office and wardrobe - not as bad as it sounds I thought I was the only working among clothes and drawers.
Nope, me too! It also doubles as the yoga room. It’s really much more pleasant than it sounds, though. It’s at the back of the house, leading off my bedroom, which acts as a kind of buffer so I don’t hear the rest of the family. My office(wardrobe/yoga room) has a great private veranda as well, so it’s a really nice space.
But, like Diane, I don’t always like working alone. When I’m messing around with formatting, file conversions, basic research etc I’ll often do it in the kitchen for a change of scenery.
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In my flat there is a room, where the only things are bookshelves, computer, printer, books, dictionaries. And the only use allowed is: WORK.
Any other activities is carried out somewhere else, although sometimes I use it to keep "Santa's gifts", cause children have learnt a very important message: access forbidden!
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