Room names?

You can call your rooms whatever the heck you want. He sounds like an opinionated oaf.

You need to paint the rooms in different colours, or put up some naice chinoiserie wallpaper. Then you can say, oh uncle, welcome, we've put you in the blue room, and cousin is in the Chinese room.

Hee hee :-)

Call them whatever you want.

Our "guest room" is called Sophie and our "study" is called James

Have you tried telling the uncle to fuck off about what you call your own rooms and your own house?

Either that, or just stop talking to him at all about it

It obviously doesn’t matter what everyone calls the difference rules as long as we can all be understood.

However I think strictly your terms might be American? <hides>

No one has locations next to their comments but I'd be curious how many of these differences are regional variations. Were you raised in the same general area as your uncle?
Personally I'm from the Midlands and use every single one of these interchangeably, sometimes even in the same conversation. "Oh yeah you're in the back bedroom tonight. DH did you put the extra pillows in the spare room? Yeah he did so ill take you up to the guest room now" 🤣
Except vestibule... I've never called anything a vestibule. Its a church word for me. They have vestibules.

🤣🤣

You could always have the Prof Emeritus Sir Sebastian Ffffoulkes-Ffffarquharson Memorial Reading Gallery - for the bookshelf under the stairs!

We have a guest room and two offices. I also say lounge (as we also have a separate dining/living room). I'm foreign though, although very British and very northern DH also uses these terms.

Our estate agent also called our entrance hallway room (it's pretty big at around 4.5x7m, and it's the 'ante-room' before the actual hallway) the "vestibule" and our "garage" the East Wing. Granted the "garage" is the old coach house with the huge swinging gates/doors intact, and technically yes an east "wing" that was added around 1900. But still. The East Wing 😂

Your uncle sounds controlling. Why does he care what you call it. Maybe start referring to it as your guest wing instead to wind him up even more.

We’ve also got a room full of junk or stuff we’ve put aside but not ready to abandon and it’s accurately known as The Room of Doom. Maybe I should rechristen it Rod 😆

We have two spare rooms, one is my (4 days per week) WFH office and the other has a sofa bed/wardrobe/pile of crap we haven't put anywhere else.

We started to refer to them by the colour of the walls so one is the green room, one is the red room, but not sure why/how it started.

I don't particularly like it, as it sounds wanky and pretentious, but its a habit we have fallen into now and I tend to say their names ironically/piss takey now!

I do hope if there's a clump of bushes in the garden somewhere that's the Shrubbery?

Helen the hallway, Keith the kitchen, Bob the bathroom, Betty, Barney and Brian the bedrooms? I love it!

@MoaningMeowing the blue room! Brilliant! Do it.

and tell uncle that you house is none of his business and he can call his rooms what he likes, but your happy with your choices

tell him to keep his opinions to himself, he’s being rude and it’s tiresome.

I have a garden office where I work from.
It fucks me right off when people talk about me working from my shed.
It's not a shed. It has laminate floor, double glazing, an independent electricity supply, dimmer switches etc.
To me it seems like they are mocking me a bit, or thinking I'm not doing real work. I correct them every time.

Why does your uncle come round and start talking about your guest/spare room and your study/office? Does he not have anything else to talk about?!
I'd really piss him off and start calling them Doris and Boris (insert names of your choosing!)

According to sticklers for ‘correctness’ your DH is right. It’s a class divider:
lounges are for hotels and airports, not private houses. A hall is like the entrance to Downton Abbey, not your average semi. Other examples are lavatory not toilet, napkin not serviette. All a bit silly really.

We also have a study where dh wfh most days, but confusingly for my dc we do call it Daddy's office - it's confusing because when he's not wfh he's "going into the office". So then we have to clarify - the office in town. We didn't think that through, really

Love the vestibule medical meaning!

We have a vestibule (mini room for dumping your shoes just inside the front door) but we know that's a pretentious word so I sometimes say it in David Mitchell's voice.

When I'm feeling very posh I call it the Atrium (it's about 3m2 lol)

I thought if its main purpose is for work, it's an office, but if its main purpose is more casual, it's a study.

We WFH in the office, but we also have a study where all the books are and quiet time is had.

The spare bedroom is just called "the small room" in our house.

An estate agent once described a (grotty, mid-terrace, in a v undesirable area) house I was selling as a "charming cottage"...you have a long way to go before you beat them on pretentiousness OP

You have an Uncle problem. Politely tell him to be quiet.

My friend's mum used the word lounge when we always said living room. I thought her mum was posh!

We have a spare (bed)room for guests and a study.

I've never had an argument about what they are called and don't really care if others use different names.

All room names should follow the cluedo theme IMO!

Sorry, but your mother was a common guttersnipe - the proper name is "withdrawing room"!