Salvo, I have to say a wig room is easily achieved and they probably existed all over the place, whereas a bell tower to call in the estate workers is truly grand and magnificent. I honestly feel the victory is yours.

YABU - why can't you bear it - is it jealousy about bigger houses wih more rooms?!

We have what was once a building for an outdoor toilet (but the hole in a piece of wood type, not an actual flushing toilet) and we refer to it as the 'wood shed' even though it is actually full of cardboard boxes that nobody can be bothered to take to the tip.

Boffmonster - you win - a wig room trumps a belltower!

my dh thinks im pretentious as i refer to the bit at the end of our garden as "the meadow" it is only normal garden width and size but it gets covered in snowdrops and daffodils in spring and it has a beautiful spreading tree to give shade in the summer, it looks like a meadow albeit on a very small scale!!

branflake - I too would like a library, even it is just a little room with the book shelves in!

It was more or less wedge shaped, situated between two oval rooms, with shelves either side of the sash window, which went all the way back into the corners. On these shelves there was probably space for two or three wooden head shaped thingies on each side, presumably to rest your wig on and also powder it, comb it, etc. There was space in front of the window for a little table and seat, I imagine so you could sit down and put your wig on and primp yourself a bit. From the layout of this area of the house I got the impression the young ladies concerned actually sorted out their own wigs, at least some of the time.

What was really great about this house, built in the late 18th century, was that in the darkest recesses of Sotheby's someone found the original catalogue for the sale of the contents when the first owner was moving out, so we learnt an enormous amount about what different rooms had been used for and so on, as well as how they were decorated. This was like actually touching history!

huh a wig room ?

YANBU tis insane. I went to coffee at someones house the other day and they told be to "please put my brolli in the entrance hall"
It was a porch !

PS If I remember correctly, I think it was technically called a powder room in historic documents, which is probably where the term came from.

If you always put the youngest child into the nursery while they are a baby and then move them into another bedroom when they get old enough, is it allowed as a term then?

Also ... <whispers> ... does anyone have a day nursery and a night nursery?

Plus I have thought of another great room I had in a previous house ... oh yes ... beat this ... we had a WIG ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!