Where in the house.....

Sitting room where I can watch the garden in the winter and in the summer open the french windows and bring the outside - in. Bookshelves and unmatched furniture is the order of the day.

When my DDH was recovering in hospital last year after a cardiac arrest and pneumonia we moved his 'study' area downstairs so that I wouldn't keep running up and down to 'check'. It is still here and I do spend time at 'this end of the room' on pooter.

This week I have been mainly lying on sofa reading or watching tv suffering from tonsilitus.

Hello Nonnie and welcome. Good question re "free time" , we could probably start a whole new off-shoot to try to define it!

Did you say 'free' time? What is that?

Again, the kitchen. Large leather sofa, coupe of wicker chairs, large oak table where we sit and chat, have meals at, do jigsaws and craft type things with GDs. Also piece of wall given over to GDs as their 'gallery' for any artwork done. Large bay with French windows looking out to the garden. Another table with books and magazines plus, my only must have, fresh cut flowers. This is where I am sitting at the moment, listening to Classic FM.

The lounge. Unless it's hot, in which case under my grapevine!
Ps. What is a kitchen? Have I got one?

My kitchen is at the front of the house and not large enough for a table so I'm usually in a cosy chair in the south facing lounge/diner with a view through the patio doors to the garden. When I look up from my book or iPhone I can see the bird table which often distracts me.

My little study which is off the kitchen so I can keep an eye on things. I'm surrounded by bookcases full of Victorian information books, novels I've not yet read, novels I have read waiting to go to a book sale I'm in the throes of arranging, carrier bags of paper waiting to be shredded and a chaise longue which I've always wanted but which has now been taken over by the 'boys' - 2 pussy brothers who like to keep me company; one in particular sits directly up against my PC when I'm not looking enjoying the heat and dislodging the plugs!!!!! I've learned the hard way to save as I go!

Always in the kitchen with a warm red Aga, view across Dartmoor, dog and cat, Radio 4, loads of newspapers, nibbles always to hand....
But Gally has definitely got the bestest kitchen ever!

My kitchen where my friendly kitchen fitter fixed me a breakfast type bar that I have my lap-top on,high gas chair in front which eneables me to turn around and switch on the kettle for a constant supply of tea/coffee and in reaching distance of the fridge for any goodies when the urge takes me.

Gally if I lived in your house I would also probably spend my free time in the kitchen - it's so much more than that.
My bedroom is quite large with two big windows showcasing lovely views of trees and the hills on the other side of the valley; it has a landline, a desk (with laptop), bookcase, teasmade and en-suite. I'm saving up for a sofa. Best of all, no-one comes in except by invitation.

In the kitchen, which is warm and sunny, with window seats looking out over the garden. It also has an extending table, usually covered in newspapers, and chairs. This is where everyone makes for when they arrive.

Or, the refurbished 'playroom', which is above the kitchen so has the same views and similar window seats. It has a big sofa which is just right for putting one's feet up and watching a good film.

I am always on the couch in the den as we call it in the States. It has dark wood paneling,a TV and a brick fireplace with a wood stove insurt.A yellow pine rectangular coffee table in front of the couch that always has my 18 yr. old cat on a fleece throw,books and clutter with a fall decoration thrown in the mix!

I'm with the clutter, in the work room which should be the dining room.......off the kitchen, handy for food and drink....there is a supposed dining table somewhere under all those papers.
I play music here, on keyboard (well I'm supposed to be learning at it) or on the computer, get online, keep plants in an old aquarium which is a hospital, or just sit. Got a landline and noticeboards.
Wish there was room for a settee!

The sitting room is the most used room in our house. It's T shaped so we have a cosy end with wood burning stove, sofas, bookcase and telly and the long end which has more bookcases and a couple of extra comfy chairs that can be pulled up to the fire when we have visitors. The dogs are supposed to curl up in their beds but they always end up on the sofas with us.

Once the fire has been lit we ignore all the rules about sitting at the table in the kitchen and eat in front of the telly!

I do love my bedroom though where I'll take refuge from the football tonight.

Kitchen because it has underfloor heating in winter and 9 bifold doors opening up into the garden in summer, a big sofa with room for the feet up, the laptop, a desk covered in all the stuff I have to 'do', not to mention all the normal important kitchen equipment i.e. chocolate biscuit tin, wine store and freezer with ice . I often think, since J died, that I could just live in the kitchen and dispense with the rest of the house, although it would be interesting for the neighbour, as there are no curtains.

The back room of my two-up two-down end-terrace. I have the TV and all my clutter here, including the laptop, of course. The front room is used if I have visitors and the sofa bed accommodates GC.

Mostly the kitchen where I can see down the garden make tea whenever I feel like it and also tap or watch on my tablet while pottering with 'stuff' . Whenever family call around we hardly ever sit in the living room but all congregate around the kitchen table for a catchup..

The sitting room is where I read, work and rest. The study here is small and Theseus has more work (Rotary International) to do than me. I commute from table, to chair, to big settee. Which is where I am now, resting my b****y knee!

Got a cosy farmhouse kitchen, warm and welcoming. I can look down the garden, listen to the radio, tap away on my iPad, cook and drink tea in comfort, and when I have visitors we have a big table to sit at and put the world to rights.

In the pooter room [which is probably the most uncomfortable room in the house]. Am beginning to think that I could quite easily live in a bedsit again [only with my own loo and bathroom this time round].

The study, a large dark beam ceilinged friendly room with a partners desk where DH and I can sit companionably, surrounded by books and with a large bay window overlooking trees and the footpath that runs past our house where we can see all the people going by, while doing all the organisation, research and surfing that occupies our free time.

The lighting is two spotlight bars above our desk. In the winter, on late afternoons and evenings this provides a pool of light in the centre of the room while the comparative dark of the rest of the room wraps round us like a blanket.