Pretty funny! I work from home on my computer full-time too, and usually end up on the sofa. But my feet are always up on the coffee table (I don't believe that woman in the picture above *really* works at length sitting like that. :)

The only thing that gets me back at my desk is the capabilities of my iMac, but otherwise, I'd be on the sofa all day (with breaks to cook, clean, eat, watch HGTV, read AT, etc., of course!) :)

A Billy IKEA bookcase with one shelf deeper so it sticks out a bit than the rest makes an instant desk for a laptop. Then put all your stuff in boxes on the shelves above. I also move around my place from the couch with feet up looking out over the city, to sitting at my kitchen counter.

My husband has back issues and he prefers to work at the breakfast bar so he can alternate sitting and standing. I need a more formal desk to roll out drawings and lay out samples. But everyone has their own style.

I would just mention that anyone experiencing back, neck or wrist pain should consider a more formalized work environment as a solution. Proper monitor height, keyboard placement and sitting posture can make a big difference if you spend long periods of time working.

Well, wherever I work, when I work at home I am certainly not dressed to the nines drinking a glass of wine.

I spend 99.9% of my time in my office. Generally at my desk but occasionally on the futon in my office. The Ikea Beddinge that I have is surprisingly comfortable for sitting more or less straight up with a laptop.

I'm unproductive from my living room couch. I'll occasionally set up shop on the dining room table when I have a project that requires more spreading out than my desk allows. I do find myself in my office on weekends, getting things done at my desk that are non-work related.

I work from home one day a week, and honestly, where I work in my apartment depends on the season. In spring/summer/early fall, I'll work on my porch or on the couch in my living room. In winter, I primarily work at my desk, since I have south-facing windows and the area by my desk gets the most sun during late fall/winter.

Even with as much as I love my desk I never use! I always end up back in my bed doing all my work. I much prefer to lay on my stomach, pop on the television in the background and do all my work.

After a lot of trial and error I landed on the dining room table as my favorite spot to work from home. A drawer in our buffet holds my laptop and papers. Every night it gets tucked away so I can't get drawn into work after hours.

I migrate a lot. I have a studio in my spare bedroom with a standing height counter on the back wall and an oversized adjustable height table in the middle. I do a lot of work in there, but I spend an equal amount of time on sofa or at my dining room table. I find I'm productive when I get a change of scenery every hour and half or so.

I'm at my desk all the time - but I think that's just because it's not facing a wall. My desk divides the kitchen and living room, so I can sit at my computer and see all around my apartment. I think I would feel too cramped and blocked if I were staring at a wall all day...even a nice wall.

I'm working on my patio right now. I've found that my patio table makes a most excellent desk. I do work at my desk a lot, though, especially during the fall because it's in front of a floor-to-ceiling picture window and gives me a great view of our backyard. In the winter, I'm liable to snuggle in my bed while I work, mainly because I'm cold. Sometimes I migrate, just because I need a new view.

For those who are comfy working in bed or on a sofa, do please be careful about your back. It can feel comfortable for years and years....while gradually doing cumulative damage to your back that can hit you when you least expect it. Even if it feels good NOW, it doesn't mean it's not doing you harm. In my 20s, I pooh-pooh'ed the importance of decent posture, good office chairs... and I later paid the price: 10 years of always- uncomfortable, sometimes crippling back pain. Wish I'd known better. That glass of wine would have been just as nice at an actual desk, with an actual desk chair.

I work from home full time but have my son with me part of the time. When he's up I am downstairs with the computer in the kitchen on the counter (I wish I had a breakfast bar) so he cant pull out the plug. When he goes to the babysitter's I move upstairs either in my office or to my upstairs porch and work outside. Most of the time I forget to go upstairs and realize I'm standing next to my kitchen sink doing work all day. ahhh - working from home with children!

I have a nice desk area that my husband uses consistently when he works at home, but I inevitably find myself on the couch with my laptop propped on a pillow and my feet on the coffee table. Works for me!

Usually at the breakfast island or in our home office... I've set up a few dedicated office spaces, and they just are not used. We seem to have waaay too many computers, too, making it easy for me to just plop down & use one. Crazy! And yeah, no pearls & pumps in this office!

Even though there is a nice desk in the second bedroom, I generally work from the kitchen table. I tend to agree that staring at a wall makes a boring workspace, and watching the whole apartment feels better. Although it is nice to have an office with a door to take any work calls.

I'm an artist and my studio is in the basement. It's always about 68 degrees down there which is perfect for me. My computer and office files remain in the office upstairs. Having a computer in my studio is too much of a distraction for me.

I'm one of those wacky people who prefers a PC over a laptop so I work at a full-scale desk in my condo. The nice thing about my setup is that the desk fits perfectly under a sliding glass window that overlooks my patio, so I can look up from my computer to the plants, bushes and big trees (look, there's the sky! gasp!), keep an eye on my 2 cats, and maybe catch a glimpse of a visiting hummingbird.

The patio view from my desk is one of the things that sold me on this place (outweighing a lot of flaws that it has). After living in a junior 1BR garden-level apt in the city for so long where I had a partial view of the greenery outside from my desk, I couldn't stand the thought of working at a desk that had me facing a wall.

Work is wherever my laptop is. Sometimes, if I have a pressing deadline, I go to a busy coffee shop in order to concentrate. How odd is that??

At my desk, at the breakfast table, on the deck, sometimes at the kitchen counter if I'm home with a sick kid who wants chicken soup or whatever. But never, ever in the bedroom.

Home office, at a desk, with great lighting, ergonomic chair, and several monitors. Headset for Skype meetings, and a roller thingie for my feet so I can keep something moving. No way could I sit in a less than well fitted ergonomic chair for more than 20 mins and not be in pain.

I work from home, but move around a lot depending on what my husband and five year old are up to. Sometimes, I like to be nearby, others as far as possible from the ruckus. Bed, desk, dining room table, couch, arm chair, bar top. I utilize them all!

I work from home, but often need to have more than one document open on screen at a time, and a little laptop screen just doesn't cut it, so I'm pretty well married to my desk. But I think that's also probably best for me, because even though I also use my computer for personal stuff, it still feels like a work space that's a bit separate from the rest of my life - despite being right in the middle of an open plan kitchen/lounge/dining.

My boyfriend and I differ - he can listen to music watch TV and do uni assignments at his desk in our mutual office - I on the other hand work at my desk and opt for the couch and the feeling of being away from work when I use Facebook and read Apartment Therapy daily!

I work from the dining room table. The only problem being that we invariably have a laptop and papers on the table when we sit down to eat (my husband comes home for lunch most days). I originally had a beautiful basket in which to dump everything, but the puppy is teething and already took a corner off. And can't work on the sofa or bed -- my neck aches the next day.

I can work ANYwhere there is natural light and a view....provided there is no laptop in the scenario. Absolutely detest those blasted things. My deskop is situated in a computer armoire strategically positioned by a set of french doors which are usually open regardless of the season. Ideally, my office would be outside if I could manage the logistics.

usually on the couch. i work from home nearly full time and it's always on the couch, with the coffee table serving as my desk. my actual desk is just home to plants and my cat's favourite sunning spot.

My jewelry studio is in the basement. I have special ventilation installed to eliminate toxic gas. I generate a lot of dust and metal filings which I wouldn't want in the main living space. I just posted my studio make over which you can view here, http://spiralstyle.blogspot.com/2012/07/studio-makeover.html

To the comment above about going to a busy coffee shop when on deadline, I do that too. I need the ambient noise, which is why I don't always stay in my home office/guest room/dressing room.

I bought a really nice desk and have all this cool stuff around me to make my "office" work for me, however I usually end up taking my laptop to the dining room. I never work in the same chair I eat dinner in though; mentally this is enough work/life separation for me. That probably sounds odd...

We have a room just as an office that I work from most of the time. The room is upstairs so it keeps me up & down the stairs several times a day for beverages & food. This way I get a little exercise during the day instead of sitting for hours. In the winter when it is cold I usually work in bed with a laptop tray. On those days I generally feel guilty for being in bed all day but it is much warmer in bed.

My biggest problem is I find myself not changing out of my pj's until the afternoon sometimes. I cant seem to find a trick to break this habit. Does anyone else find it difficult getting dressed when you work from home?

DOGMOM, I know what you mean about fnding it difficult to get dressed when you work from home. On many days when I work from home, I tend to wear an old black t-shirt type top (about 1 step up from gardening or painting clothes) and a long ikat skirt -- day after day after day! Those are the days when I'm pretty much glued to the computer and don't get out my front door at all.

On the work-at-home days when I actually put on some makeup and get myself into a decent shirt, pants, etc., it feels really different! Not quite as comfortable but maybe more "grown-up." LOL .... I think my productivity is totally the same either way. If I'm under the gun with deadlines, I tend to begrudge the time it takes to dress a little better when I'm the only human who's going to see the clothes anyway.

If you're actually looking for a trick to break the PJ's habit, how about making it a point to have a daily walk or one errand a day? That'll force you out of the PJs and at least into some yoga pants or old sweatpants and a top that'll work as streetwear.

@Dogmom, three words that will get you out of your PJs and into presentable clothes: Skype video call

I work from home, in a 2-bedroom condo with 2 kids home all day, and no office. I have a "desk" that mostly holds supplies and paperwork, but isn't a comfortable place to sit. I end up working on the sofa, feet up on the chaise. But I find that I'm quite productive at our counter-height kitchen table. There's something about having a big, open surface that helps me really focus when I'm on deadline.

I work from home too. My house mate works in finance so is never here during the day, and as such, I have the place to myself. I used to work from the sofa, but later moved to the desk in my room. Depending on the day I now switch between my desk and the kitchen table. Ironically the problem I find is that my room is to far from the kettle and the kitchen table is too close!

Although I may work late some days, I generally find myself on the sofa laptop in hand by 5pm. Which is definitely one of the perks.

I work only at my desk because I use a desktop. Although I can use a laptop and have some mobility, I haven't felt the urge to even do that.

It is this very problem that is causing me to look for a bigger flat - the need for a proper, professional office.

In fact, an apartment I looked at today had 1 bedroom and a tiny mezzanine above the kitchen. My plan is to make the mezzanine my sleeping area and hand the light bright bedroom over to a huge desk and work storage! The things we do for work, right?

When I'm working at home - doing administrative work, blogging, reading other websites, etc. - I'm almost always at my desk. I appreciate having the ergonomic set-up - I've got a laptop, but it's hooked up to a cinema display, and I use a separate wireless mouse and keyboard. And I've made my office a lovely place to work. Here are some photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24224159@N00/sets/72157620006413221/

Sometimes I curl up in bed and read on my iPad, but the vast majority of time I'm at my desk, in my office.

The reason I will never go back to a computer tower ever again is because I hate being chained to a desk. I also hate (with a passion) being stuck in a corner or facing a wall. I love my view, but I refuse to have a desk (especially a desk with a full-size computer, ugh!) dominating my living area, so I put the dining table in front of the picture window. That's where I work, if I need a desk-like environment to spread stuff out on. I also like the couch or the bed, or even sitting on the floor if I feel like it. I use a big stiff pillow to prop up my mousing arm. :)

I work a lot at my couch, with a letter tray on the cushion next to me, and using a few clipboards. I have a chest that I use as a coffee table and I set it up so that when I'm working, I can flip it open, and drop two slabs of wood on it to turn it into a "couch desk" with a file organizer inside the chest and all of my other supplies. I also use the kitchen table, a vanity in my bedroom and the floor pretty frequently. I'm consistently looking for new places to work - I still haven't really found my "happy place" in the apartment I moved into two months ago.

I got rid of my beat up desk chair that i had since college shortly after I moved into my apt & I use my desk as a storage space for my ipad, macbook, etc...
I normally work from the dining rm table or the couch & very rarely from the bed simply because I can't seem to get comfortable.