Ideally, there's a difference. I just got an offer accepted on a house (yay!) that has an actual office. There's a tiny little foyer leading from the door to th

Ideally, there's a difference. I just got an offer accepted on a house (yay!) that has an actual office. There's a tiny little foyer leading from the door to the main office space, the office itself would be too narrow to comfortably fit a bed, plus a space to walk around the bed, and there are four large windows in the relatively small room, and the sills of the windows dip down below where a bed would meet the wall. I mean, you walk into it, and it's clearly not a bedroom. But, hey, throw in some bookshelves and a desk and you have a stereotypical office! My parents also had a "study" (the house was built pre-internet, when people had studies) I actually used it as a bedroom as a teenager, but there were a couple things that separated it from a "bedroom" There were floor to ceiling built in bookshelves all along a large wall, but there was no closet. There was also a phone jack, which was a feature none of the other bedrooms had. The room was also sort of oddly shaped, with no clear place to put a bed without it blocking some of the floor to ceiling bookshelves. So, yeah, there are some things, but, in many cases, they could be used interchangeably. I'm using a second bedroom as an office right now, and it's basically just a big office with a closet!