having actually been to my house is helpful but not required for filling out this poll.

[rmd]

so, at home, my desktop computer is located in the room situated between the entry hall of my apartment and the kitchen. it has five walls, one antiquated DEC computer rack, a beat-up particle board computer desk, several computers, a couple of consumer-grade routers, a cabinet full of booze, a cabinet sewing machine, a couple of bookcases and a wall shelf unit (all of which are populated with books, poker chips, cards, art, etc). it also has a well-loved cat tree.

instead of rewrapping the cat tree with new sisal rope (as the cats have finally shredded the old rope), or even doing my taxes, i'm speculating on how to actually describe this room. and thus, a poll.


[Poll #943839]

[1] i think of an office as having a door that closes, rather than being a pass-thru room.

[2]that sounds like it should be describing the bathroom. and not flatteringly either.

in other other news, yeah, i can stop being sick any time now. i've had [EUPHEMISM ALERT] mild issues for several days now. which, coupled with a bit of low back pain from having slept in a weird position for way too long (i blame the cats for pushing me to the corner of the bed), is enough to trigger irrational OMG IT'S ANOTHER TUMOR fears. but i'm pretty sure that, as ahnold says, IT'S NADDA TUMOAH. at least it's not as bad as norovirus.

Comments

[solarbird]

Here, it'd probably get called "the hobby room," which in this case would have amusing implications given the b00ze storage. You could also call it "the work room," depending upon your attitude towards the bits kept in.

Also, if the only thing keeping it from being "the office" is the lack of separate door, you could put in a sliding wall/door set (shoji, or, more easily and more compact but not nearly as nice, accordion-slider) and divide it into a hallway + office kind of thing.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

well, separate doors, plural. and the path really goes thru the middle of the room, so it doesn't lend itself well to segmentation.
the room is roughly 9x12. line drawing here (http://flickr.com/photos/rmd1023/416558004/)

[solarbird]

Ouch. Okay, not what I had visualised. Eject that plan then.

I suppose "sitting room" would also be a possibility.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

WAR ROOM!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

it is the room i work in when i work from home, tho. (this only occasionally related to booze...)

[kjc.livejournal.com]

I agree with solarbird that "the work room" is probably the most descriptive with regard to what you do there.

But, if that ain't gonna work, I do think of it as the middle room (hence my vote, above).

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

the War Room. Just think! It's perfect! Plus, then you could yell at the cats "You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

[rmd.livejournal.com]

then you could yell at the cats "You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

see, this? this is very tempting.

but of course, there'd also be the urge to define any room i'm in as the war room when yelling at the cats.

[sabyl.livejournal.com]

You could be like me and call your office/den the bedroom just to totally confuse your partner. I was so used to my desk being in my bedroom for so long that I keep referring to the office as the bedroom - LOL.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

I picked "the rack room," entirely for reasons of euphony. I'd probably actually call it "the work room".

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

That's roughly the same setup I have for my "computer room".

When the house was first built this was a bedroom. Later on someone added another room off the back of this room. So now the room became basically a wide hallway(*) leading to the "master bedroom".

The room is wide enough that I can have a computer desk along one wall, and a bookcase flat against the opposite wall with a hallway in between.


(*) The room underneath this room became a hallway between the kitchen and the dining room. When we re-did the kitchen, we moved the doorway so instead of the hallway being the length of the room (imagine a 'Z' shaped path), the corridor between the kitchen and the dining room is now along one side of the room, so the rest of the room can now be used as a room instead of a hallway.

[fich.livejournal.com]

The word 'lair' comes to mind.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i might call it the "hack room", depending on how much you use which stuff in there.

[ceo]

I'd call it the study. That's what I tend to call the room that desks and computers are in.

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

kathrynt's right: War Room.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

How about the Parlor, or the Laboratory (pronounced labóratory)?

[fetish666.livejournal.com]

i was going to select cat tree room...and then i thought...why not just give in and call it the cats' room? all rooms are truly the cats' rooms eh?

thought the amusement factor in calling it the pentagon...and calling people and saying "i'm calling you from the pentagon..." or telling telemarketers, "do you realize you are calling the pentagon?" is pretty high for me...

so no clicking...only commenting.