Room of Doom.

[titianprincess]

AIBU to ask if any you have a room of doom in your house where you throw all your crap and it looks like Lord Lucan might be found hiding in it? Please make me feel better and say yes

Had anyone had a room of doom and managed to tidy it and keep it presentable??

Even my super neat and tidy friend has a room of doom. I'm suspicious of people who don't unless they live in very small houses and have to be minimalist. We're lucky in that we have a separate store-room of doom (think garage that isn't really big enough for a car) and we never have to go in it except to get something. We still have a study of at least semi-doom though. It's usually full of ironing.

My utility room is a disgrace. It's also right by the back door that we use as our normal entrance so visitors pass it when they come in. I still can't muster the energy to tidy it and find places for all the stuff in it. It's full of washing hanging, shoes, coats, bird food, Costco tins, mops, ironing board.

I DID have one! Cleared it out today. 5 bin bags to the tip and various bits to charity. I must have gone back in it today about 10 times for absolutely no reason at at all. I actually feel lighter on my feet, like I've done a massive poo.

Yes, it's the shed.

That'll be the cupboard under the stairs and the garage.

And the dining table.

And obvs have the drawer full of crap.

I have a room of doom. It's the makeshift wardrobe of doom really as we need to get built in wardrobes sorted but haven't got around to it yet. We moved into this house last year and, of previous experience is anything to go by, we'll get around to doing the things that really needed some when we moved in just before we move out (in 20 years time).

And if I'm honest, it's more of a floor-drobe than a wardrobe.

I also think sittingdrinkingtea and I own the same conservatory. Only mine doubles as the main entrance hall so everyone gets to survey the dumping ground on arrival. It's on a similar timescale to be dealt with demolished as the built in wardrobes (i.e. The 32nd of Julember).

This is like therapy! I feel so much better knowing I'm not the only one

In my old flat we had the Cupboard of Death. In my current house we have a spare room where everything that has been moved out of other rooms as we decorate has been stashed, plus all the boxes we haven't unpacked since we moved in. This weekend is earmarked for sorting it out...

Love this thread!!
My Futility Room has a Glory Hoke behind the door. It is genuinely my favourite room!! I think because even when it gets horrific it is 'saving' other rooms from that fate.
I couldn't be without it ... I mean where would I put endless recycling, hangers, charity shop guff, hidden Xmas pressies etc???
Also literally no one else looks in there - I could have the treasure of the Sierra Madre in there and they'd all be oblivious!

Glory Hoke 😂

Ours is the closet under the stairs I swear hardy potter himself could be hiding from "he who shall not be named" in there and I wouldn't know I daren't even open the door lol

We are rearranging our house just so we can have a room of doom. Since DC2 arrived we haven't had one and it's made the rest of our house messier and there's no where to dry washing. Now DC2 is mobile we need a room so we can stash all the dangerous things.

I don't but DH does. He insisted on having a tiny room as an 'office' but he monopolises the dining room table too. The former is pure crap of the 'I know ever In there and it might come in useful' variety. The dining room table is largely invisible under God only knows what paperwork. Oh, and he has a 6x8' garden shed equally unenterable full of stuff he says he's taking to the tip....
Yeh, right.

Oh and the loft is full of I hate to think what, that he brought from our previous house 😳😳😳😡😡

Hell yes. Utility room. So much stuff in it that I can barely get to the washing machine. But if it keeps the rest of the house reasonable, I'll take it

We have the cupboard of crap (under stairs) and shed of shite. Both packed to the rafters. I'd shove more in the loft but I'm scared of the ceilings caving in.

Meh, out of sight, out of mind.

I have a futility room with a fuckit cupboard in. Fuckit cupboard is for all that 'fuckit where is it' stuff

Yes definitely a whole room of doom in this house. It's bigger than the kids room.

There's books, books, books, random electronic shit and spare bedding. Really it should have be the spare room/office but we can't get in there at present.

P1nkP0ppy I could have written your post verbatim, just substitute 6x8' shed to entire double garage.

Just having a little chuckle at "glory hole" - my 81 year old Nan still uses this phrase to mean her cupboard under the stairs! The look on DH's face the first time he heard her was priceless

We have a Room of Doom but on Monday we got our loft boarded out - the plan is to use that for storage and turn the room into a guest room which (hopefully) will stay tidy and beautiful all the time...
So I guess the loft will be the new Room of Doom

I have a garage of doom and a conservatory of doom. I imagine my neighbours hate me.

My Room of Doom starts at my front door

I hear ya!

Oh yes, yes, yes. Of course. Futility rooms (2!) and Cupboard o'Crap. Not to mention Shed of Shite.

Am at all the glory holes. When we were house-hunting DH and I had a REALLY hard time keeping a straight face in one house on a second viewing as the elderly seller kept apologising for all her husband's glory holes. On and on she went, from the spare bedroom to the cupboard under the stairs to the 2 sheds - glory holes one and all. It was relentless, I tell you. We didn't buy it!

Just one room! Amateurs!

Another amateur here! Just the one, but every home needs one. Where else do you put your luggage and mess when you are packing and unpacking, boxes of christmas decorations waiting for their tree, boxes of summer clothes waiting to go in the attic, gifts waiting to be wrapped. My mess is always very temporary, but the room is always messy. I thought that was what box rooms were for!