Room names?

[MoaningMeowing]

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?

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?

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

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

Better that than saying "toilet".

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!)

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

'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.

The problem isn't what anybody calls any room, all the names you listed are fine. The problem is that your uncle thinks you're pretentious, which is a bit of a pain in the butt really.
Is he annoying in other ways too? And if he is, why is he coming round every week?

He thinks we’re being pretentious. If I wanted to be pretentious I’d rename the study the library…

And your guest room 'The Blue Room' or whatever.

I do remember cringing with embarrassment when my mum insisted on referring to our, admittedly largely glass, lean to thing at the back that was full of books, toys and my dad's deckchair for smoking his pipe as 'the conservatory'. This was the 70s in a 3 bed semi and everyone else who had one just called it the extension.

I just cottoned on when I read that. Maybe inverted snob Uncle objects to people having 'guests' who stay over, as opposed to 'visitors'?

We have a ‘guest room’ and the ‘upstairs office’. The funny thing being we don't have a downstairs office (unless you count my corner of the Conservatory).

In our last house the spare room was the Yorkshire suite, because of the paintings on the walls.

You are correct. Hotels have 'lounges', houses have living rooms.

I saw in a local estate agent's details that a house round the corner from me had an 'orangery' rather than a conservatory. Bog standard house on a 90s built estate.

Now THAT'S pretentious.

I mean, it's bonkers if anyone cares so much this subject keeps coming up, but I agree with him, your terms are slightly upwardly mobile working class. Not that that matters.

Am I the only one that thought auto correct has gone mad and thought that @MoaningMeowing meant baby names?

I'm with pp , just for devilment I'd give the rooms human names.
Uncle, please take a seat in the Peter while I go to the Clive to make a brew.
The toilet/ bathroom would coincidentally have the same name as the uncle 😂

Yes, this!

I thought the thread was going to be about OP's guest house and what to name the rooms. We stayed in a charming place in Haworth, with only four letting rooms, but they were each named after a Brontë.

I'm guessing they had more than a few guests who walked knowingly past Emily, Charlotte and Anne and were then a bit puzzled to be given a room called Branwell!

I love the idea of every room just having an actual name - Bob, Carol, Dave, Gladys, Cheryl, Phil - much quicker to say than 'the drawing room' or 'the former playroom'!

We have a spare room which was always full of stuff we didn't know where else to put. It has just been done up, and we have a guest coming to stay in it for the next few nights, so maybe it should be called the guest room.

We also have a study and a workroom (was our smallest bedroom), a garden room (just off the kitchen and where we spend most time) and (on DH's insistence) a drawing room.