What you are describing sounds like a great, very personal space, and "happy place" is a perfect description for it.

Sounds perfect!

My dog follows me, too. Lays on the bath rug, gazing mournfully up at me. If I’m sitting in the bathtub: ah, the looks of betrayal! She’s a teacup chihuahua; can’t reach me in the tub. ?

I agree with you there! I have shared space with cats before. I love cats, but my little Maggie is insanely jealous and would never adjust to sharing her domain with any other creature that walks on four legs...

...or even to legs and wings. Look what she did to this poor innocent little chicken that happened to wander into Maggie's kitchen:

@CarolinaGirl60
I know exactly what you mean. My little pound puppy parolee Maggie could at least show a little gratitude. But no, it baffles her to see me engaging in any activity that that does not include rubbing her tummy.

@CarolinaGirl60 My terrier girl is 10. She doesn't like sharing me with the others. She doesn't understand how I can allow anyone or anything in my lap that's not her. I have my folks 12 year old Jack Russell mix that she's known all her life and she objects to HIM getting in my lap. She makes "arooo" noises as if she's trying to talk and is VERY clear about what's bothering her.

@MikeEC @david75090 the looks she gives me, lol

@CarolinaGirl60 They say a lot with their eyes and their body language. My terrier girl is near inconsolable when the other get attention. She really votes "no" on the kitten.

Yes, thank you

I like that, but it sounds more appropriate for whiling away the cold, gray days of winter. It is over 95° here, and I guess the term "man cave" would work for me today as long as the cave is deep underground and nice and cool ?

@MikeEC Texan here and we share the same temps. I do have a/c and stay comfortable all year long. Do the best you can with what you have to work with.

I am fine with that as my living situation and hope you are at least reasonably happy with your " living alone" circumstances. I feel at home in any room in the house, but it is nice to have a room to relax in that doesn't have dirty dishes scattered across the counters or dust bunnies scampering across the floor to look at. I like referring to it as "My Space" but that sounds like a website to me.

Very descriptive name and it makes a lot of sense.

I know what you mean about never throwing anything away. No piece of colored glass was too small to keep when the room (pictured) that I am now calling my greenhouse used to be a stained glass studio. It was always so jampacked with supplies and equipment that there was no room for over-wintering plants. It is full exposure to the east and partial exposure to the south, and I can't wait to use it this winter/spring for propagation.

I hear you. I don’t throw any fabric out either. Have tried to organize and downsize but after weeks of moving stuff and cleaning it’s time to start over again. I don’t do it too much anymore. Lol

@MikeEC My dream is to have a greenhouse room. In my leisure (ha) I like to look at floor plans and figure out how to rearrange things so I can put a greenhouse/sun-room off the kitchen. My current kitchen faces north, no windows on the E or W in my house. And I have gotten rid of 90% of my plants because of cray cray fur balls.

Right now, same for me! But, I always have at least one room to keep my craft/jewelry-making stuff in. I call it my retreat.

@Cast1es,@CarolinaGirl60 Very true. All the rooms in the house are 20% mine, and 80% owned by the bank. I like having one of those 20% 'ers to relax in. The retreat is a great name for that space!

It is just a question and has no intrinsic meaning.

I apologize. I did not mean to shock you. I posted this in "Silly, Random, and Fun" merely out of curiosity.

Thank you for sharing that you call your room your room and that your wife calls her room her room. When my wife lived here and used the room to which I am referring, she called it her office, and she referred to the room adjacent to it as her studio. She also had her own room with a bed in it which she referred to as her bedroom. That way, if we were together let's say in the downstairs room that has pots and pans, dishes, a range, and a refrigerator (I call that room "the kitchen" ), and she said, " I am going upstairs to my studio" I would know exactly which room in the house she was going to. I guess it would work just as well to say "I am going upstairs to the room that has my stained glass supplies and equipment, or I am going upstairs to the room which has my bed in it, or I am going upstairs to the room that has my desk and computer in it."

To me, having descriptive names for the various rooms in the house simplifies matters and is less wordy. Maybe that is just me being silly and random, but I never thought of it as being a “shocker.”

That is a big part of it, but there is also a desk, computers, and printer. I guess I could call it my office, except that I am retired, and don't do any actual work in there ?

It is just a question so who's stressing?

@jlynn37 Whew, After reading the first few comments to this post in the "Random, Silly, and Fun" category I had to reread my post to see if I had somehow worded it in a way to cause offense or give the impression that I consider this a question of grave importance.

Thank you for your concern about my mental health. I posted this in the category of "Silly, Random, and Fun" merely because it is something I am randomly curious about. It is not a major cause of stress for me.

And yes, thank you, I am grateful to have a room I can call my own. The bank that holds the mortgage might argue that it is a room that they can call 80% their room.

Maybe he needs to be in " man cave" somewhere below the basement ?

Yes, artsy is good. If you have the talent and the space devoted to using that talent, then studio is the perfect description.

yes

If men are restricted to a particular room it is because he is a slob, annoying, loud, drunk,smokes tobacco, etc & the Missus is tired of being around such a mess of a human being.

I did not mean to give the impression that I ever felt I was only "allowed" to have a certain room or rooms to myself. When living happily (and even not-so-happily) with another person, all of the common areas are comfortable to be in together.

When my wife was living here, I loved and appreciated the stained-glass she produced, but her space included the room she referred to as her studio and the adjacent room she referred to as her office. I was always (well, almost always) welcome in both areas, and did not feel cheated because those were her areas.

By the same token, I had my own room in which to engage in activities and interests I enjoy. She was always welcome there, but was not interested in all of the same things in which I'm interested.

While not a large house, it is 2 1/2 stories, and I only need to use one room has a bedroom. That leaves a few options for other areas for other uses. I like having one particular room in which I can relax.

I agree. At times my garage is my favorite room. It is a two-car garage with a large workshop area, and it is set about 75 feet back from the house. A few years ago, when I replaced all the cabinets, countertops, and drawers in the kitchen I moved the old ones to the garage and installed them in the work area. I have a Wi-Fi extender, a large desk, and my older laptop computer out there. I am retro in more ways than one about music and have quite a CD sound system set up in the garage.

The garage is insulated but not heated or air-conditioned. It is a great place to hang out during most of the year, but not so much from the beginning of December until the end of February and June through August. Having an area of the garage to relax and hang out in keeps me closer to the yard work that needs to be done, so I like that about it.

Today is one of a many 95° plus days we have had here in central Illinois since the beginning of May. I will not be spending much time out there

@MikeEC my garage is in name only. I have two other sheds one for tools and one for the lawnmower and gardening. My garage is carpeted, insulated, air conditioned, fridge stocked full of beer, have an old school 65 inch projection tv, surround sound, bar and lights, poker table, police scanner. A whole bunch of stuff I probably don't need lol.

@MikeEC I live about 25 mins east of Terre Haute so I definitely feel you on the heat.

@McWalsoft I guess you wouldn't even think about parking a car in there would you ?

That sounds like a great spot for you and I am sure many friends. I have a friend who lives in the country who did that with his detached garage. His Tuesday night poker games are hugely popular, and I think he does more business on NFL Sundays than some of the local bars.

It looks like a work room because of the desk, computer, and printer, but I'm retired, and it would be a stretch to refer to most of what I do in there as work ?

@MikeEC maybe call it an entertainment room?

...and you ALWAYS get to select the movie?

@MikeEC
Don't be ridiculous. I'm married.

That is very similar to my room arrangement. My exercise bike does double duty as a convenient place to hang clothes rather than waste closet space on them

@MikeEC That is all that is in that room, closet is empty. Place is too big for just the cat and I. Looking at selling and moving to an urban area, maybe next year. Senior apartment with more amenities close by.

Wow! You certainly have a complex, interesting life with multiple rooms having interesting personalities of their own.

Is your "rattie" roommate four-legged (I hope)?

@MikeEC He is definitely rattie and he's amazing

@SkotlandSkye what a handsome little guy! Is this his daily routine:

Get up, have some breakfast and a cup of coffee, settle into his easy chair with a good book, and then turn on the TV, and flip on over to the animal planet channel.

Ahh, it is a rats life! ?