The kitchen was out, since that's where I've set up for work-from-home for the duration. My daughter had a heretofore underutilized desk in her room that we cleaned off and set up a proper computer workstation. She's doing a conference call as I write this.

We all cram in together at the kitchen table (our only table) not fortunate enough to have a home office

In the dining room! I thought this was temporary but now I’m wondering if I should do something a little more permanent...

We have 2 international students so they already have desks in their rooms and so not much changed except they are home all day.

As a long time homeschooler to my 5 children (3 of whom are now graduated) I started off with a dedicated school room, but that only worked for so long because as kids get older they become more independent in their learning. Eventually, my kids would spread out ALL over the house! They would work on laptops in their bedrooms, there was a computer and desk in the basement, the kitchen table, the kitchen island, the family room couch, and sometimes even a spot outside... though that was usually too “bright and shiny” for my 4 dyslexic children.

One is in the dining room and one is in her bedroom and my husband and I are wherever we can fit!

home schooled two. and desks and kitchen table and chairs and bedroom....whatever worked.

no space was sacred. and all used. and they thrived.

3rd and 7th grader on opposite side of the dining room table, which we shoved against the wall. 9th grader set up his desktop + laptop + printer + 23847234238974 pounds of cords/cables/gadgets/whoknowswhat on the picnic table, which we brought inside and shoved against the other wall. Husband in the office, where he's serenaded by the unaccountably loud and always running washing machine on the other side of the wall. Moi next to my 3rd grader who needs constant monitoring. People move around the house as necessary (Zoom calls in the den. Phone calls on the deck. Working on the couch.) We eat at the island... which I should have designed for 5 chairs instead of 4, since... there are five of us. Whoops.

Four kids, so all over. 2 oldest (high schooler and middle schooler) are in their rooms where they have desks. (High schooler has a gaming computer with 2 monitors and so with his school laptop he’s got it somehow all integrated and it looks like mission control for NASA.) I have one elementary kid in the kitchen and the other has mostly been in the basement playroom but from time to time works on the couch in the family. We are fortunate to have a home office, that’s where dad spends his day. Really lucky to have all the space we do with so many people at home all day.

Dining room is good for my son so he can spread out all the papers. My daughter uses the upstairs office on a day bed and brings small tables in to put extra books papers within reach. I use the living room computer desk set up I have had for years My husband has a desk set up in the breakfast room. Everyone has privacy because my old house has a lot of walls. It’s interesting to walk around weekday mornings to see what everyone is up to.

Dining room !!

@Jenni Kuty NASA Mission Control is exactly it!! So funny.

squeezed into the dining room. Getting frustrated with a too small desk and not enough room for me to sit next to our kindergartener and reach over her to use the i-pad and not enough room for her to watch teacher videos and have the worksheet on the desk at the same time.

Scotty PG, you may be surprised at what is expected in Kindergarten. Our 5 yr old granddaughter is learning addition and subtraction of numbers up to 20, has about 50 words to learn by sight, plus phonics: short and long vowel sounds, hard consonants, as well as how to sound words out. Also: beginning readers and parts of speech.