Room names?

'Study' sounds less pretentious to me than office, not that either is remotely so.
Not sure there's any significant difference between 'spare' and 'guest' either.
Your uncle sounds a bit tedious tbh.

@MoaningMeowing have you ever tried distracting Uncle with the lunch, dinner, tea, supper debacle? Just by way of a change.

My friend has a ‘ reading and listening room’ and ‘ bathing space’ (that’s dining room and bathroom to you and me!

We call ours the guest room and the study. It's not a spare room. It's not spare, it has a designation and a purpose, which is for guests to use.
The study is not an office. DH may work in there in the day, but DS uses it to do his homework in. He studies.

I live by myself so have quite a few “spare” rooms, so I just refer to them by their colours/decoration as it gets confusing otherwise.

We have a spare room as I don’t have guests

Our cellar was once used as a den for toys. Still called the playroom.
Our spare room has a bed but no permanent owner. Our living room isn't lived in but the Other Room is lived in and called the top room.
keep using your names to annoy the twat

Oooo he would love my house

we have an office and a study 😂😂

I also have a craft room, it use to be the playroom but I’ve got it now the children are older, it’s still called the playroom though no matter how hard I try

its the living room that I struggle with, it’s not a lounge, I hate the word lounge to describe a room, it’s something you do not a room in the home.

Call the rooms what you like.

I would absolutely disagree with him about 'the office' - that's where you commute to if you are not working from home.

We used to have spare rooms. Now we have one room named after my parents, and one room named after my brother, because those are the rooms they always use when they visit.

We don't have living rooms or lounges. We have a piano room and a tv room. It helped my daughter understand which room I was referring to.

My beautiful (though i say it myself!) guest room is called NameofadultDSwhohaslefthome's room. My DS who lives here refers to the little bedroom where the WFH gets done (no bed, just office stuff) as 'the office' but it's not caught on with the rest of us. (We call our (nice) sitting room 'the front' and the utility the 'back kitchen' though, so probably not the best guide to room naming etiquette!)

I did once get told off by an adult for saying loo when I was a child

Better that than saying "toilet".

I'd be having my boundary stomping uncle in my house a lot less than once a week. It's your house not his.

If it were me, I would pull out a thesaurus and start renaming all the rooms, and changing the names every visit. Bonus points if you mix the pretentious with the obscure and archaic, and slang eg Take a seat in the parlour. Excuse me while I nip to the bog then I’ll make a cup of tea for you in the caboose. DH is working in the library and the DC are playing in their bedchambers, I’ll let them know you are here. Maybe we could sit in the backyard as it’s a nice day?

We have a spare room, an office, hallway, and a sitting room.

Couldn’t care less about what other people call their rooms, but like the OP, I’d take exception at someone correcting me.

I did once get told off by an adult for saying loo when I was a child.

I’ve embraced pretentiousness and the Alexa controlled lights in the big hallway are named ‘the atrium’. No shits given 😂

The technically other reception room has lots of names depending on who’s trying to annoy who - family room, front bedroom, spare room, gaming room, library (i.e it’s got bookshelves, a games console and a day bed, it’s also got it’s fair share of crap 🙄)

Dps office is just as likely to be called a study.

I might be tempted to wind him up and call him a peasant or uncouth but you’re probably wise to rise above it.

Your uncle sounds like a pain. Why’s he so determined to take you down a peg?
FWIW, we have a study and used to have a spare room until DP annexed it.

I wouldn't cope with that. I think a Regina George why are you so obsessed with me would be in order. And some compassion for someone who's only way of communicating is "banter" and can't make a genuine human connection without it. You are of course correct though, ignoring/rising above is the only route. Unless you wanted to bury him under the patio/terrace/plaza as appropriate.

i like a spare room and a study. Everyone calls room’s different names, it sort of evolves. I grew up with living room but my children say other room because when they’re getting under my feet in the kitchen I tell them to go in the other room out of my way! So we have the other room and the kitchen!

Other than your uncle being overbearing I can't see why this is much of a consideration. There are local variations and personal choice.
When I was growing up we had a living room, and a lobby; I now called those rooms the lounge and the hall.

When I was selling my house some years ago, the estate agent called our front lounge the "drawing room" on the particulars. I felt like a right plonker when people came to look round.

YABU to call a room the "lounge".

If the room is being used it's not 'spare'.

DH insists on referring to any room with a loo as 'the bathroom'. All outbuildings including the garage are 'the shed'.
Then he has the nerve to when I ask for clarification.

I'd love a billiard room.

@GymBergerac we have got one room called X's Room. There is no X in the family ad never has been, but we know what we mean 😂

Is he correcting you or just not using your preferred terms? If someone corrected me about the rooms in my own house I'd be unimpressed. If they just used terms different to me I'd survive.