>for some inexplicable reason you have left out the bedroom, which leads me to add that I am currently sitting in a converted bedroom (converted to an office), now (more topically) referred to as the "computer room"

Funnily enough, your experience mirrors mine, according to the Estate Agent's specification, I am in "bedroom 4/study".

I was reading a newspaper article whilst I was in the USA which said that the living room, beloved of sit-coms was virtually redundant. The first question asked by people looking at a house was "Where will the computer go!"