Do you have a nest?

For yourself, I mean. Not a bird’s nest. For me I kind of have a nest on the sofa. I’ve got a blanket and my tray table with my laptop permanently parked on it, and the end table has all of my general within-arm’s-reach necessities. I’m cozy here and it’s where I spend most of my home-alone time as well as where I watch TV with the family.

Do you have a nest?

I live alone. My whole apartment (such as it is) is pretty much my nest.

Nope, and never have. I know what you mean, though.

I totally do! It’s almost the same as yours.

Corner of the sofa. Laptop, coffee/tea, water bottle, book, knitting, quilt, cat, TV remote: heaven.

Which end of the sofa is your nest on? Mine’s the right.

Left. Coffee table with water and coffee, laptop on the couch, afghan on top of the couch, remote behind my legs.

On the right.

Yeah, I do. Our house has a fireside nook that’s just big enough for a sofa and two armchairs… not really room for a coffee table. When I work from home I work in it, and I also have my big pile of magazines and my big pile of books and my knitting right here. The cat likes to sleep on the back of the sofa.

I have a sofa that someone gave me. It has very high sides and back, like a box. I have pillows, afghans, two lamps, a BIG coffee table on wheels that I can pull near or push away depending on which of my two dogs wants to climb up with me or whether I want to have food or drink in arm’s reach. Two cats on the back of the sofa. I carry books and my journal around in a canvas box. TV remote, cell phone, of course. I don’t do the laptop there, as when I work I use a dual monitor setup that just works better on my desk.

I’ve always had a spot like this, surrounded by my favorite and necessary stuff that I would accumulate over a period of weeks/months. I remember many years ago when I was married, I’d decide to rearrange the furniture, there would be a pile of books and magazines surrounding the hole left when I moved “my” armchair. Not so around my H’s armchair.

We rebuilt the attic into a home office. Computers, radio, 1000 linear feet of bookshelf. It’s become our home within a home.

Does the kitchen count? I loves to cook.

Same only in my basement. I’ve got a small fridge, a water cooler that dispenses hot and cold water, a shelf with tea and cups, computers, a foot stool and my much beloved office chair. Oh and a nest like pile of papers that I really need to sort and file. Oops.

Right side of the couch. Side table with purse + mail, underneath that the reading pile, plus my side of the coffee table gets covered with my little supplies: scissors, pens, grocery list, etc. Blankets within easy reach, and, usually, a cat too.

I have my big Lay-Z-Boy recliner parked right in front of the TV (more or less). To my right is a small TV table (the kind that’s about 18X24 inches) with all my remotes and any other random stuff, including food and beverage.* To my left is a small table just about the height of the arms of my recliner with my laptop on it. For the last few two months or so my back has been messed up, still trying to decide on if I want to do PT or not, doctor thinks it could possibly be a slipped disc. I’m starting to think it’s from the placement of my laptop. With it being on my left I spend a lot of time with my back in an odd position so I can see and type on it without having it on my lap.

*Food, or rather drink NEVER EVER goes on the table with the laptop, period.

Absolutely. I have the right side cushion (when you’re sitting on it, not facing it) on the sofa. The sofa and loveseat are touching each other and my boyfriend has the right cushion on the loveseat. Whether a puppy wants to sit on the cushion between us or to the left of me, I can always just reach over and give a little scritch.

My seat is in direct view of the TV and with just a slight head turn, I can see the fireplace. I can see the majority of my house from this spot. I can see my front yard so I can tell when the mail lady is here.

I have a clunky wood end table which houses my laptop, pen, highlighter, water bottle, cell phone, hand cream, Tums, iPod, home phone, and whatever I happen to be drinking or eating. This sits in front of me.

The arms of the couch and loveseat are very wide and offer the perfect surface for my school books, notebooks, agenda, and folder/binder thingie. The couch arm also serves as a perfect resting spot for my right arm, allowing easy use of my arm. I use a thumball mouse I don’t need a mousepad.
I spend my days sitting here working on school work, watching TV, playing WoW and cuddling with my puppies.

The cushions are interchangeable so I switch them around every month so none of them conform to the shape of my butt too much.

That would be…easy use of my mouse.

I like to sit in a recliner about 6 feet away from the TV. From there I have access to Tivo, PS3, Netflix, and a DVD player, although that’s hardly ever used. Remote usually sits on the arm of the coffee table, glass of water or whatever I’m drinking on the coffee table to my right.

I have a round stick*.

*possibly too-obscure “Lost in America” reference

I often sleep on the sofa. It’s my nest at night. It used to be a real, full-time nest but then I got a roomie and now clear my stuff off on those mornings when I awake on the sofa.

I, too, have a nest, despite living alone ('cept the doggy) in a 3-level townhouse – and it, too, is at the right end of the couch. I’m right handed, so I optimize the end of the couch that will allow me to have an end-table-o-stuff within reach: tissue box, drink, One Remote to Rule Them All, and whatever snacks are in the house (currently a small bowl of Dove milk chocolates and another bowl of Utz cheese balls). And there is just enough room for whatever I’ve made for dinner, while it cools down.

The only thing I haven’t really figured out yet (despite having lived in this place for over a year) is a good place for my laptop. Usually I leave it upstairs on my desk, but every now and then I want to have it downstairs with me. When I’m using it I have it on my lap, but when I’m ready to close the lid and focus on something I’m never quite sure what to do with it. It usually winds up on the arm of the other couch (which makes an “L” with the main couch), but that’s the dog’s couch and I think it bothers her when it’s there. I have a solution in mind: I want to replace my end tables with a coffee table. I just really want a coffee table that has wheels (my end tables have wheels, and so does my entertainment center furniture), and I have yet to find one that I like.