The #Study and/or Greeting Room

If you didn't know it diocese have various guidelines for clergy housing. These normally suggest its a good idea if there is a room downstairs in the house where the Rev can meet people.  

Often this will have to double as their study as well and the advice is it should be accessible from the hallway off which there should preferably also be a WC (This is all to avoid visitors having to walk through family rooms).  

Curates accommodation, and indeed that for vicars, may or may not actually meet these guidelines.  




When my wife was a curate she was fortunate to be provided with a house that  had a room she could use as her study and a separate front room that could be used for visitors (and when not in use was a useful 2nd lounge with a 2nd TV/computer).

I say all this because what this practically often means for you - the Rev's other half - is that you're not going to get your own study/desk area. When we were in a curates house I got round this by having a standing desk in the lounge.  And in the current vicarage there is a spare bedroom I can use as my study - as long as our daughters aren't home.  But when they move back having completed uni (not a certain future but fairly probable) it maybe that the spare bedroom isn't spare any more.

All of this is probably a long winded way of saying that a standing desk is probably your best bet if you want some sort of area in the house where you can keep stuff on a desk (or something like it).