What to do with a house that doesn't feel like home?

 I've been struggling with what to do with my house since my ex-gf left. In an ideal life, I'd sell the place and get something closer to hiking trails. (Or I'd buy that van I talked about in my last post, but that also may not be a wise idea yet). But that's just not in the cards for me right now and while I normally love to do nothing about a bad situation except wallow in self pity, I decided this time to make do with what I have. So I did some upstairs rearranging (what little could be done) and more importantly, I decided to turn the spare bedroom into a room I'd always wanted - a tabletop gaming room.

 I'm not gonna lie, I was kind of proud of that room. It wasn't my dream gaming room by any means, but it was undoubtedly a gaming room.There was just one real problem with it - I don't do a lot of gaming. 

It's not that I don't want to game more. Given the opportunity, I'd likely be playing some TCG or RPG damn near daily. But I don't really have that opportunity these days. And I certainly don't have the opportunity to do so with friends at my place.

A couple weeks ago a friend needed a place to crash for a few days. So I cleared out the table in the game room so they could put an air mattress in there. Then when they left and I went to put the table back, I realized it's kind of pointless. I had a room I occasionally used for organizing cards, but that was it; it never got used for its intended purpose. So I decided I need to do something else with the room.

After a few days of inner deliberation, I've decided I'm going to make a home office out of it - another room I'd have in my ideal home. Of course it won't be my ideal home office (not much of a view from the window and the wall is a pretty thin wall shared with neighbors), but hopefully it gets more use than the gaming room did.  

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