General Chat

jo, it is an electric guitar!!! he has an amplifier in his bedroom,so if he wants to plug it in he has to go up there,i won't have it downstairs,don't mind hearing it if he's upstairs,i have to say tho,he can play and is good. just as well it's an end house,were his bedroom is there's no one next door. chris.

I'm in the hall, opposite end of the bungalow to our bedroom so can sneek in here early in the morning, leave hubby snoring.........also en-suite loo, just in case !!!!!!! Anne

My computer is wherever I happen to be.. since it's a laptop with a wireless LAN card :) I do have an office upstairs though, which is where my printer, scanner etc are when I need them...

Hi I'm also in the small bedroom (box room) which I share with all the toys and junk Chris

I would love to have a little room to call my own but my understairs cupboard is inly 4ft high so I would have to sit cross legged on the floor.I am now sitting in the dining end of the kitchen.No I will rephrase that computer/genealogy room as I cant remember when I last saw the table top Lynn

We've got an open plan living room/dining room/kitchen at the back of the house and the desk is wedged in between the tv and the dining table. We were supposed to be converting the loft into an office but haven't got round to it. Everybody lives in the back part of the house so have to put up with kids screaming and telly constantly blaring in my left lughole. Can't wait for a bit of peace when the kids go back tomorrow. Jeanette

I have an Office/Computer set up in the rear my Caravan, I can look out at the mountains all around me as I sit here, I also have a heater on as its freezing just now. Bill in the mountains of Oz

I'm really ashamed of myself! I am SO lucky! We built our own log house, forestry all round us. Nearest neighbour four miles away. I have my own room next to the sitting room (planned many years ago). If the TV is on in the sitting room and I don't like the noise hubby wears his earphones and we both enjoy peace and quiet. All my hobbies are around me and no one bothers me. I look out the window and watch the deer, squirrel's, birds etc. and in a few weeks there will be Momma groundhog and her yearly litter of balls of fur out playing in the garden. It's so nice being old, retired and able to please one's self.

Joan, you are indeed fortunate, I always wanted a log Cabin in the wilderness, surrounded by Nature and Animals, well thats where I am now but not in a log cabin. well i can always move if I find a better place. Hope you have a lovely life, and no need to be ashamed, im sure you earned it. Bill in Oz.

In the lounge where the fire is, but if we buy the house we've been looking at, I'll be under the stairs........ (like Harry Potter) lol Isn't that weird. xx

If I put the computer in the little room under the stairs, it would be very awkward every time someone wanted to use the loo! I use the smallest bedroom which used to be the sewing room until a few years back when paperwork started coming home with me and took over life as I knew it. Now material and sewing machine are hidden away in the loft and the room is the study. Jacky :-)

I'm in the corner of the lounge at my desk on my old laptop. Have an all singing/dancing PC on the landing that the kids use. I would love to be under the stairs but mine is ...an airing cupboard in the kitchin! You just know a women did not design my house!!! Thought about converting the shed but it's a bit cold out there. LOL. Viv.

I work from home using mine. Hubby and I each have a computer and when we downsized to this cottage we started off in the smallest bedroom. Once I unpacked the genealogy bits as well as work stuff, and hubby started unpacking all his bits and pieces it was obvious we needed the middle room instead. We sit side-by-side with the printer/scanner between us. Any visitors now fight for the single bed in the small room - luckily most of our visitors are single!!!! Our under-stairs is part of the kitchen. It isn't enclosed, and houses the fridge and freezer, behind which is a gap just deep enough to house a few bottles of wine!! At least we don't have to share computers and can please ourselves as it's just the two of us! Sue

Hi Norah, my Computer is in the hall which is about 9 ft wide by about 15ft long ,we put shelves for all the books we read and also a space for the computer ,so I am under the stairs but have lots of room to move ,it's nice and cosy and not in the way . Margaret.

It has been wonderful reading all your replies and hilarious too. So seems that quite a lot of us are of the 'below stairs' brigade. Happy compooting Norah

Hi Norah I'm under the stairs, which is in our lounge. Not ideal because telly in there as well. We are just putting our house up for sale and we have had four estate agents come in and have all said thats a very good idea. Mind you all the properties we have looked at there is no where to put a computer desk. And I am defitnely not moving until I find a proper house with room for a Computer. Can I ask what part of Southampton you are in? I am in Fair Oak Eastleigh. Debbie

Hello Debbie I'm in Swaythling, just a couple or miles or so from Southampton centre. Have you looked at the Hampshire meeting thread? Regards Norah

Fascinating to see all the replies. We've two computers at home, the main PC which sits in our office/ study and my wife mainly uses when she's at home, and a laptop I bought last year to accompany me on overseas trips with a children's charity I'm involved with. So when we're both at home, Paula works in the study, while I camp out on the dining room table. Only problem is that we've got one printer and one internet point, both in the study, so there's a bit of negotiating involved to decide who plugs into what and when. (Actually, I cheat, I can use the PC when Paula's not around! Very useful for doing all the records for our shop business.) Philip

We didn't want to put the computer in any of our children's rooms so boarded the loft space and I sit up in the roof with seagulls tapping the skylight.

i am a harry potter too ,under the stairs like all the rest . now i know what this space was really made for ...caz