I occasionally watch videos about interior design. Sometimes...

I occasionally watch videos about interior design. Sometimes I come across real gems — ideas I immediately want to steal for my home or photo studio ✨🏠

But more often than not, modern interiors look like hotel rooms. Everything is minimalist and painfully generic: a bed 🛏, a kitchen table 🍽, and a vanity 🪞. There’s no workspace — no desk, no nook for a laptop. In kids’ rooms, desks are usually added, but if the apartment is tiny, convenience gets sacrificed. A desk only appears if there’s literally space for one.

Sure, it all looks neat, tidy, ⭐️”Pinterest-perfect”⭐️, but it feels more like a temporary setup. Eat and sleep — that’s the full functionality. Actually living there? Not really part of the plan.

I remember when we once stayed with a good friend in Turkey. It wasn’t really a vacation — more of a spontaneous working trip ✈️💬 There were five of us in the apartment, all with laptops. In the end, we all huddled around a single kitchen table — because there simply weren’t any other surfaces. At the time, it felt like a cozy little quirk, fine for a few days. But imagining that as a permanent setup? Kind of depressing. Then again, that apartment was meant for rest, so maybe it didn’t need anything more.

Recently, the neighbors finished renovating their apartment for short-term rental. Curiosity got the best of me — I found the listing and had a look. The description proudly read: “spacious apartment, 5 rooms, plenty of space for living and working.” And the reality? One kitchen table 🍽 and one vanity 🪞. That’s it. In five (!) rooms — not a single desk. No workspace, not even a shelf for a laptop 🤦‍♀️🪑

And every time I see this, I wonder: what do people without desks actually do? No computers? No hobbies? Do they never write, read, build things with their hands? Or is everything happening solely at the kitchen table? One table to rule them all? 🍝📚💬

At home, I have a proper workspace. And no — it’s not in the kitchen ☕️🖥
(Although, my laptop did live on the kitchen room for quite a while… but that’s another story.)