We’ve just renovated our house.
We now have a ‘guest room’ that my Uncle keeps correcting me that it’s a spare room. And our ‘study’ is an office.
My thinking is that we have a double bed in the guest room for when guests come to stay. Once we have more DC it will become one of their bedrooms.
The study is used outside of WfH therefore it’s not just an office.
He thinks we’re being pretentious. If I wanted to be pretentious I’d rename the study the library…. I’m thinking maybe the ‘spare room’ is more of a generational term?
AIBU?
Room names?
MoaningMeowing · 25/03/2024 11:40
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Changeandagoodrest · 25/03/2024 14:20
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.
Edinvillian · 25/03/2024 11:54
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 😂
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