Room names?

Unless your uncle lives with you and owns the house, he's being completely unreasonable if he's insisting on your using his preferred terms. Plenty of people have a "guest room" even if it's used for other purposes and/or guests have never come to stay, and I don't see how "spare bedroom" is any more accurate or less confusing.

You definitely need a "study", though - where else will Professor Plum assault people with a candlestick?

Personally I would insist henceforth that the rooms are given people names, just to be bloody minded..... So Gareth, Penelope, Marvin etc.... 😂
However, joking aside, I hope you realise that it's just different colloquially used names/descriptions, and it really doesn't matter. What's the expression? Not a hill I'd die on....

I remember the feeling of total alienation I felt when a childhood friend called her hall the lobby. I airily told her it was the hall, not the lobby. Took me many years of life experience to truly grasp that different people do different things.

'The lounge' always freaked me out too. Not to mention my gran calling everything the front or the back. Oh you're in the back bedroom tonight.

I correct my DH when he calls our rooms the wrong names because he is WRONG!!! E.g. (and I know I will get shot down for this) he says 'lounge'... it's not the lounge it's the sitting room! Or - at a pinch - the living room. It is never a lounge and never EVER a 'front room'. Our spare room is usually called 'the boys' room' because it is usually used when my grandsons come to stay, but otherwise it is the spare room. The office is the office because that's where I work, but when I eventually retire it will become the study.

Why is he even interested?

We have a guest bedroom ie a bed in a room used solely for overnight visitors. We have two ‘spare’ bedrooms ie rooms that have beds but could be used for other purposes, they’re still known by the long removed DC names, an office AND a study. His head would explode 🤣

The ‘office’ is a spare bedroom with two desks and two filing cabinets but no bed. The study has one desk and two bookcases and is downstairs.

All that matters is that we know which room we’re referring to.

@JacquesHarlow I believe the point is the Uncle is correcting the OP and in effect dictating what @MoaningMeowing names her own rooms in her own home. That is a problem.

OP, your house, your rooms, your names. It would be reasonable for you to kindly point this out to your Uncle. I assume you don't correct him on his 'spare room' and 'office'.

Enjoy your guest room and study! :)

I have this argument with my husband. I'm an estate agent and call our entrance a vestibule, he calls it a porch, he calls the lounge the living room, the utility room a wash room, our family room another living room and the hall the lobby. I just ignore him now 😂

A room in my childhood home was always called the playroom even long after my sibling and I had grown up. Habits die hard.

I think it's neither here nor there. We have a spare room. It is in fact the 'spare room' rather than the guest room because we use it as a second lounge (has tv and sofa, in addition to an en suite and bed), so it is more like an extra room, hence the spare bit. The kids use it when they want to watch different things on tv. They also use it for sleepovers and parties.

We have an office too, which is truly an office, pretty much no one uses it for anything else. It's next to the spare room, so more like a bedroom. A study to me is like a 2nd reception room on the ground floor that would have a seating area in it, which sounds more like what you have.

I like the idea of a library though! Maybe I'll start calling mine a library!

Why can’t you each just call rooms whatever you want? How often are you talking about your house and its rooms that it’s going to be an issue? Now that you’ve finished renovating there’s not going to be a lot to say, anyway.

You do know @MoaningMeowing that these room names solely exist between you and the people you speak to? And there’s no placard to be decided on here?

So if you speak to anyone else other than your Uncle, you can call it what you want. And he also can accept whatever you call it, but is choosing not to.

My god, I wish I had “problems” like this.

It's the " main spare bedroom" here