Room names?

Well we have a downstairs study. In fact, the upstairs guest room doubles as a second study. 😁

Really?! These things are just fun, not to be taken seriously, surely?

My old house was called 'OldTinHat Towers'. We had east and west, north and south wings depending if we were upstairs or down, front or back rooms.

My current house has spare bedrooms called the 'Pink Room' (it's not pink), the 'XXX Name Room' (sorry, can't out but XXX is long gone!), and the 'Penthouse Suite' (loft room which is just a room).

The room I sleep in is called 'Stay the Hell Out Room' when I have visitors.

The garden is called 'The Wilds' because it's 150ft of weeds that I can't manage 🤭

When I was younger and lived in a big house we had a drawing room and a sitting room, a guest room and a library, and we also had a scullery instead of a utility room. The library was just a study but two walls were lined with bookshelves.

An office is somewhere outside the home where you go to work and I assume a spare room is an extra bedroom in a house where people don't keep the room ready for guests but probably use it more for storage.

I always thought the words vestibule and lobby were reserved for public buildings.

Friend of mine's parents have a room called Eric. They moved in when friend and siblings were still all at home. It's a den/snug type room and they were debating what to call it, and one of them suggested Eric. It stuck 😁

(Wondering if anyone else who knows them will read this!)

Live out in the sticks, Drawing room is the standard term round these parts for the lounge/living/sitting room.

We have two spare bedrooms - a snoring room and a sewing room.

Goodness. I had no idea you needed to be that posh to be middle class. If you're right it's going to be standing room only and a queue round the block down here in the lower echelons, what with all the people who've discovered they need to downgrade themselves.

I should probably name change for this but I like to live dangerously…

I painted our spare room/office/knitting room a glorious green. After we were done painting my husband looks around and said “Well that is a frogs butt green room isn’t it?”

The room has forever since been named The Frog Room.

"Lovely to have you staying over Mum and Dad.... You're in Carol tonight....." 😂 🤣

Oh look - the same dictionary you used also defines a guest room as "a bedroom for a visitor or visitors to use" - no mention of a country pile!!

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/guest-room

This is reminding me of my childhood too. Our house was an old one with servants' bells in the kitchen so the rooms were labelled as they once were.

I used to cringe when my mother referred to "the drawing room" - I think she thought both "lounge" and "living room" were rather common. She had strong views about "sofa" and "settee" too, although I can't recall what.

To be honest I find guest room a little pretentious if you’ve only got one and it’s in a fairly bog standard 3 bed house. Technically it is a guest room, yes . But a spare room is also defined as a room for guests to sleep in.it feels a little pretentious to me to refer to it as a guest room unless you’re living in a country pile.

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/spare-room

I wouldn't have him over to my house if he was going to be so disrespectful. It's your house you get to call the rooms whatever you want. I hate the guise of bullying being called "banter" 😠
In our house the guest/spare room is called the middle room, because it's in the middle. It only has a single bed and it also serves as the WFH space so I wouldn't call it the guest room - although I would love to have a room nice enough to call it a guest room, as to me that gives vibes of a nice, restful, place for guests. What we have is usually full of clothes waiting to be put away, the random bits of crap that no-one knows what to do with, a WFH desk, and a spare bed.

Yes, and be pretentious about it as well. Give them all 3-digit names, starting with the floor number, like in hotels!

I think a spare room is a spare room until it is nicely presented and furnished to be a guest bedroom. Not a room with the old exercise bike, curtains that don’t quite fit, and an overflow ironing pile, which just happens to have a bed in it what friends can crash in.

My MIL is due to move house soon and she was telling us that the new property will not have a study like her current house does but it’s all ok because there is an office on the ground floor. I just smiled and nodded along as I really dont know what the difference is!

We used to know an American family from the Mid-West who came to live in the UK for a number of years. They were unfamiliar with the Europe-wide term 'WC' for toilets and, to them, 'WC' stood for 'Wayside Chapel'. Hence the toilet soon came to be referred to as 'The Chapel'!

Number them.

It would be a spare room and a study in my world.

I'm team Uncle but that's just because it's what I call them. A study is somewhere you study, I don't study in the office I work from it. The spare room is the spare room because we don't use it for anything, we don't really have regular guests. Just nod along and plot his murder in your head 😂

The bedroom would be named after the colour of the walls 'I've put you in the blue room this time because Gran'

In that case, most of our rooms would have been the 'mould' room 😀

Lounge makes me think of a hotel or an airport but each to her own.
Personally I have a litter tray room.

@ErrolTheDragon We've a boot room but we definitely aren't posh as we also have a lounge! We only call it a boot room as it was called that on the plans when we bought it and neither of us could come up with a more fitting name.

The bedroom would be named after the colour of the walls 'I've put you in the blue room this time because Granny likes the green room' and obviously the room with the books is the library.

Quite so. Unless it's the Chinese Bedroom or suchlike.

The bedroom would be named after the colour of the walls 'I've put you in the blue room this time because Granny likes the green room' and obviously the room with the books is the library.

Ha ha - same here. Was the 'play room' when we moved in 22 years ago and is still called that now. Sounds a bit weird actually now it's just me and DH living here.