What do you call your downstairs corridor

[Kyvia]

What do you call the corridor downstairs in your house as you come in and the rooms come off it?

And how would you refer differently if you wanted to refer to the whole space that was that corridor and the stairs & upstairs landing above it?

Am managing insomnia by setting up my new smart lightbulbs and need different names for just the downstairs (hallway?) light and the whole space (hall?) including the landing above as well! If names are too similar then Computer gets pedantic with you...I’ve already named our bedside lights ‘Port’ and ‘Starboard’

Is vestibule the word for the upstairs and downstairs hallway space? Or is that only downstairs? Or atrium?

I'd have 3 different names. Hall, stairs and landing. If you want all three on you'll have to day all three separately surely?

@msmith501 a vestibule is like a porch

Same as Russell19, hall, stairs and landing. I also have an entry hall, which is basically an interior porch space before you come into the main house.

I though this was an euphemism...

I thought the OP wanted one word that could be used to cover the hallway, stairs and landing in one go? ... the equivalent of dating "Hey Google, turn on the Stairway lights" and all three sets come on at once ... or maybe I've misunderstood.

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Yeah, I need a name each for the downstairs light and the upstairs light, and then a group name to control both simultaneously.

I do like ‘atrium’ although sounds a bit grand for a maisonette!

Upstairs is ‘landing’ that’s the only one that makes sense to me right now. I honestly can’t think exactly what ‘hall’ would refer to, the whole space or just downstairs.

DP rather selfishly too busy on a night shift to assist with middle of the night device naming.

We're nerds so our collective hallway/stairs/landing name on our smart lightbulbs is hyper space. My mum calls hers the atrium, she lives in a 3 bed semi .

I also thought this was the best word I've seen on Mumsnet yet for describing lady parts. Sorry thought it may be a bit early in the day for vagina

As an aside I am now googling smart lights. Not sure what a collective word for hall, stairs and landing could be, entry zone?!

@Kyvia ahh sorry I misunderstood that bit, could you have hallway for all 3 and then hall, stairs and landing as your subdivisions? Or would hall and hallway too close for your computer?

Or you could be a bit a bit more playful obvious with it:

Walk through, passages, here to there, that there extra space, the not living area etc

On that note, ‘Vestibule’ is definitely too gynaecological.

Geeks and proud here too, I channel my inner Picard when instructing ‘Computer’ to do things (it’s very amusing when you actually are watching an old TNG episode and Alexa starts replying to the telly as well). Now wondering if I can sensibly refer to anywhere as ‘The Bridge’....

I think she’d get picky with ‘hall’ and ‘hallway’ - “there are several devices with that name, which did you mean?” AAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH (never name a light with ‘light’ as part of its name)

Does stairway include the downstairs hall and upstairs landing do we think?

Is it Philips Hue? I've set mine up on the automation function to automatically trip the other one on if one of them is on which works for us. We also have motion sensors in the hallway and on the landing which come on (different brightness at night) and then turn off after 10 minutes of no motion

I call them hall, stairs and landing. Collectively I think I would go for corridors.

Hallway - use this for the whole things. So then I have to say downstairs hallway or upstairs hallway.
If it’s a long thin lower hallway then I might call it the passageway. (Although this more used for outside spaces). Or passage.
Stairs I call staircase.

Yup Hue bulbs health but I didn’t get the bridge as you can control them all directly through Alexa, but just on/off & brightness. I think I will get the bridge as well as it seems then you can do lots of more advanced stuff like timed sunrise, motion sensors etc. A motion sensor by the front door would be good.

Also thought it was a euphemism

Downstairs corridor

For some reason, I've never been amused by "back passage" used in a similar manner.

Why do you need a collective name?

My back passage .

I find it amusing.

How about "Close' pronounced cloas?
Used for stairways in flats

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thought this was referring to vaginas.

If it helps my vagina will from now on be called The Downstairs Corridor.

The actual downstairs corridor in our house is just called The Corridor. The upstairs corridor is The Landing.

Library?

Or as estate agents now call generous ones - a receiving hall. Oo er.