Sitting with the laptop in your dining area, the couch is not a permanent neither a convenient too.
We can work on the better option sometimes by a small transformation. Home or apartment always underutilized space, guest room, storage area, or multipurpose space.
Home office space also could create in any of the rooms with a small dedicated space, and a small study area too. The commonplace of a bedroom, living room, kitchen space transformed into a “worktop”