Room problem · Function

“It is doing two jobs and losing both.”

What it usually is: Two jobs sharing one patch of floor, with nothing between them. They do not need more room — they need an edge.

Before anything is bought

Try this first

Test · reversible: Put a temporary edge on the line between the two jobs — a clothes rail, a curtain on a tension rod, a bookcase turned side-on. Live with it for seven days and move nothing else that week.
It is working if: You can do one job without looking at the other one's mess, and the walk around the edge still holds 36 inches.
What would change our mind: If both jobs still lose with an edge between them, the room was not short of a boundary. One of the jobs belongs somewhere else in the house — ask that before spending on either.

Can any corner become a place? It works on the room you have open; with none open, it offers a worked room to start from.

A worked room with this problem

Sleep and a full-time desk. No split.

Function looks like the governing problem. Clear the primary walk — no money yet.