Room names?

Wouldn't all their rooms be good? Not very posh if some of your rooms are a bit rubbish imh (wc) o.

Depends what you mean ... are we talking about people with sculleries and boot rooms? And some properly posh people may have quite shabby furniture and rugs because they've been in the house for generations.

It’s where they stored the tea bags maybe.

I wanted a name for,our second living room. I thought maybe snug. My husband and daughter refused it point blank saying it was too posh. I can’t see the term snug as posh at all. My husband wants to continue to call it the other living room. And my daughter said she could get behind snug when I showed her the definition, but she’d be hard pressed to say it out loud. 😂

so it’s still the other living room . Although I definetly renamed the speakers to snug. The spare rooms I call the spare rooms although I guess technically they are guest rooms, and the office is the office, I’d find saying study a bit pretentious to be fair.

Wouldn't all their rooms be good? Not very posh if some of your rooms are a bit rubbish imh (wc) o.

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So what do posh people call The Good Room, then?!

Incredibly outing, but one of our spare rooms is known as the stripy room and the other is the changing room (the one where our wardrobes are).

My grandparents had a drawing room and a piano room, which always seemed pretentious but it was really just a front room and a back room, and the back room had a piano in it.

This thread has brought back memories of my childhood home. We lived in an old farmhouse and very few of the rooms were named . We had the kitchen, and that's where everyone tended to sit. Then there was the 'room' and the 'far room' and 't'other room' (the other, small room). Upstairs were the bedrooms. These were the 'front bedroom' (where my mother and father slept) and the 'back bedroom' (where my sister and I slept) and the 'box room' where my brother slept. Upstairs were the attic rooms which my father still referred to as the 'lasses' rooms' from the days of his childhood when local girls were employed in domestic service.

@Trophyfoot :"your terms are slightly upwardly mobile working class"

I see @5128gap has asked what proper middle class people call these rooms

What do fully upwardly mobile working class people call them? :)
"Not that it matters" lol (good-natured teasing)

Because of my background in healthcare, when I hear ‘vestibule’ I think of version 2c in this definition.

My husband's sister lives in a 2 bedroomed terraced house (nothing wrong with that) but said her lean-to (it was just that, made of wood) was a conservatory, and that the dining room was a study. Pretentious and it makes her sound very foolish.

Was one of the paintings of Aunt Bessie?

So what do proper middle class people call the room they keep for guests to sleep in and the room where they keep their desk, computer, books and swivelly chair?

We have a spare room which was always full of stuff we didn't know where else to put. It has just been done up, and we have a guest coming to stay in it for the next few nights, so maybe it should be called the guest room.

We also have a study and a workroom (was our smallest bedroom), a garden room (just off the kitchen and where we spend most time) and (on DH's insistence) a drawing room.

Yes, this!

I thought the thread was going to be about OP's guest house and what to name the rooms. We stayed in a charming place in Haworth, with only four letting rooms, but they were each named after a Brontë.

I'm guessing they had more than a few guests who walked knowingly past Emily, Charlotte and Anne and were then a bit puzzled to be given a room called Branwell!

I love the idea of every room just having an actual name - Bob, Carol, Dave, Gladys, Cheryl, Phil - much quicker to say than 'the drawing room' or 'the former playroom'!

Am I the only one that thought auto correct has gone mad and thought that @MoaningMeowing meant baby names?

I'm with pp , just for devilment I'd give the rooms human names.
Uncle, please take a seat in the Peter while I go to the Clive to make a brew.
The toilet/ bathroom would coincidentally have the same name as the uncle 😂

I mean, it's bonkers if anyone cares so much this subject keeps coming up, but I agree with him, your terms are slightly upwardly mobile working class. Not that that matters.

I saw in a local estate agent's details that a house round the corner from me had an 'orangery' rather than a conservatory. Bog standard house on a 90s built estate.

Now THAT'S pretentious.

You are correct. Hotels have 'lounges', houses have living rooms.

In our last house the spare room was the Yorkshire suite, because of the paintings on the walls.

We have a ‘guest room’ and the ‘upstairs office’. The funny thing being we don't have a downstairs office (unless you count my corner of the Conservatory).

I just cottoned on when I read that. Maybe inverted snob Uncle objects to people having 'guests' who stay over, as opposed to 'visitors'?

I do remember cringing with embarrassment when my mum insisted on referring to our, admittedly largely glass, lean to thing at the back that was full of books, toys and my dad's deckchair for smoking his pipe as 'the conservatory'. This was the 70s in a 3 bed semi and everyone else who had one just called it the extension.

He thinks we’re being pretentious. If I wanted to be pretentious I’d rename the study the library…

And your guest room 'The Blue Room' or whatever.

The problem isn't what anybody calls any room, all the names you listed are fine. The problem is that your uncle thinks you're pretentious, which is a bit of a pain in the butt really.
Is he annoying in other ways too? And if he is, why is he coming round every week?