I have a special room…do you?

As the children have left two bedrooms have had beds removed. One is small and north facing so good for my art work but also has lot of storage boxes with miscellaneous contents with clear plastic sides. The other is south facing and is laundry place with ironing boards and airers. It also functions as an office. Daughter uses it now one or two days as week. All can be dismantled (desk is a board on folding table) so at a push can be used for sleeping in with inflatable mattress.

I have my music room. It’s a converted double garage and has been built especially for the purpose as it is well soundproofed. It was constructed just before we moved in and leads off to a small utility room and storage space that were made from the remainder of the garage. The music room has space for my two upright pianos and digital piano - the latter was in the conservatory in our old house so that my children could practise while I was teaching. I also have a viola and two violins plus my husband’s guitar and several music stands. It also contains the vast majority of our books, so that is like a small library and l have a small table with a couple of comfortable chairs, which is my cosy corner for reading. I realise how fortunate I am.

Nope!! Would have if only our adult children would please move out 🤞🤞🙏🙏😂😂😂😂😂

I have a sewing room. My special, relaxing space 🙂

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I thought l would show you my special room. The first photo shows my teaching piano, the edge of my family heirloom piano and my cosy corner. The second photo the other end of the room with the corner of the digital piano and most of the library. The final photo shows the digital piano with the picture above, which l bought in a charity shop some years ago.

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I have my sewing room. It used to be a walk in wardrobe. No one else goes in there. It's a bit untidy...

I have the small bedroom as a sewing/craft room and office combined. I have my sewing cabinet on one side, table and shelves on the other and a storage unit with drawers for craft materials on one end. In the middle is a comfortable office chair with fold-up arms that I just swivel round to face whatever task I want to do. Perfect!

Urmstongran

I read. A lot. I only need a chair, anywhere - not a whole room.
I also like small places.
😊

My new reading chair. 😊
It’s so comfy covered in Harris tweed. I love it. I can snuggle right into it.

When I was a kid I used to put my fingers behind my eardrums and press against them to cut out noise around me. As I got older I just learned to filter out any noise around me. I can read contentedly and peacefully even if the tv is on or someone in the room is on the phone. It doesn’t register or disturb me.

I am like Tink so now have the entire house and am seriously intending to downsize this year or next but I would lose my pottery studio which has been my escape and happy place for over 40 years.

A difficult decision ahead for you Grammaretto. 💐

No special room needed as I am now on my own, and never really needed one before anyway. I just have comfy furniture in the sitting room to either read, knit or watch tv.

My special room is our kitchen, and it was designed to hold a large upright cat pen when I was breeding pedigree cats with a floor to ceiling climbing g frame for their amusement and to the allow them access to the basket on top of the freezer , .less cats and kittens now so there’s a table for my sewing machine and it’s the hub of our home

I have converted my smallest third bedroom into my craft room and I have lots of desk space and storage in there. It is a lovely room, very sunny when the weather is nice and has French doors out onto the patio and garden, with a view of my pond. I love it.

When we moved here 4 years ago we debated what to do with the 3 spare bedrooms. In the end we just made them into guests rooms - 1 adult double room, one decorated for younger children (the sloth room) and one decorated for older children (the star room). I love the fact that anybody can stay at anytime. They came in really useful last year when my son and his 2 children stayed with us for 6 weeks. They were in constant use over the Christmas and New year break and will be again at Easter, if not before. We use the dining room if we want to have space for a project, at the moment the table is covered in photos as we are planning a photo wall. We eat in the breakfast area when we haven’t got visitors so don’t need the dining room all the time. I don’t really like the idea of being locked away in a small space.

I have a special room in my condo - the junk room. It’s not really junk, just pieces of furniture/accessories I’ve placed in there till I donate or sell off pieces. I also put miscellaneous “stuff” in there for temporary hold - kid’s birthday/Christmas presents, an extra vacuum cleaner, quilts/blankets for laundering, seasonal things I bring out to use temporarily, I start charity bags and keep adding to them till the pickup. Things like that.

It’s a very valuable space for me - it’s kind of an ever-changing work room. I can spare that since my actual living is up to snuff.

…my actual living SPACE…

Thanks for sharing your photo’s - my parents-in-law are just about to arrive for the evening, so I’ll post a photo of my room tomorrow.

Also, my condolences to those of you who have mentioned losing loved ones recently.

Thinking further on this, I probably have more choice outside than in! I’ve started getting the garden reading areas ready for sunny days now that January is slinking off 💨 good riddance!

We have a JacknJill seat under the laburnum where I have my early chamberpot ☕️ and check emails. An east facing swing seat for when the sun comes up over the mountain and a bench seat for lunch/dinner al fresco.

Evening tipples 🍹🍺 in the summer house facing west and if we’re feeling sociable, we sit on the bench seat out front with a bottle of wine and drag in unsuspecting neighbours….😂

After seeing your photos, I wandered into my room, with the intention of tidying up.
I changed my mind and wandered back out again!

lizzypopbottle

I have my sewing room. It used to be a walk in wardrobe. No one else goes in there. It's a bit untidy...

What a clever use of space..

We made one of the bedrooms into an office for me. It holds bookshelves for many of my books, my late husbands desk where my Apple Mac sits. I have a printer in there and I want to use it for my family history which I love doing. It is crammed full of old iPods being charged and a cupboard full of various computer cables and techie stuff. I never seem to be alone as my little dogs wander in and out for attention or like to day there was a workman doing odd job repairs. I need the room but I must spend more time there instead of trying to get apps working on the TVs. We decided to have Apple TV but it is a bit of a pain to get it to work. But the silver lining is that I am never bored. It is time for the dogs to eat and I can listen to the Archers while they are busy eating.

We did have loads of space in our last house and my husband had a room for his music and piano and I had one for my computer. Now we’re living in much less space, he has a small room for his music and a keyboard rather than a piano.
We’ve knocked two bedrooms together, making a lovely big bright room and I use my computer in there, on a side table.
I actually like having less space, we spend much more time together - though I appreciate that this is not what everyone wants!

I am going to turn my large landing into a reading space, a wall of bookshelves, and an armchair are all I need. I have spotlights which can be directed to light my book.

Cossy

Nope!! Would have if only our adult children would please move out 🤞🤞🙏🙏😂😂😂😂😂

We eventually moved house so that our three remaining adult children had to leave home!

My three adult children have moved out, unfortunately a great deal of their belongings have not, so we still have far too many of their things in the loft and storage area.