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?

So what do proper middle class people call the room they keep for guests to sleep in and the room where they keep their desk, computer, books and swivelly chair?

Was one of the paintings of Aunt Bessie?

My husband's sister lives in a 2 bedroomed terraced house (nothing wrong with that) but said her lean-to (it was just that, made of wood) was a conservatory, and that the dining room was a study. Pretentious and it makes her sound very foolish.

Because of my background in healthcare, when I hear ‘vestibule’ I think of version 2c in this definition.

@Trophyfoot :"your terms are slightly upwardly mobile working class"

I see @5128gap has asked what proper middle class people call these rooms

What do fully upwardly mobile working class people call them? :)
"Not that it matters" lol (good-natured teasing)

This thread has brought back memories of my childhood home. We lived in an old farmhouse and very few of the rooms were named . We had the kitchen, and that's where everyone tended to sit. Then there was the 'room' and the 'far room' and 't'other room' (the other, small room). Upstairs were the bedrooms. These were the 'front bedroom' (where my mother and father slept) and the 'back bedroom' (where my sister and I slept) and the 'box room' where my brother slept. Upstairs were the attic rooms which my father still referred to as the 'lasses' rooms' from the days of his childhood when local girls were employed in domestic service.

Incredibly outing, but one of our spare rooms is known as the stripy room and the other is the changing room (the one where our wardrobes are).

My grandparents had a drawing room and a piano room, which always seemed pretentious but it was really just a front room and a back room, and the back room had a piano in it.

So what do posh people call The Good Room, then?!

The Chapel

Wouldn't all their rooms be good? Not very posh if some of your rooms are a bit rubbish imh (wc) o.

I wanted a name for,our second living room. I thought maybe snug. My husband and daughter refused it point blank saying it was too posh. I can’t see the term snug as posh at all. My husband wants to continue to call it the other living room. And my daughter said she could get behind snug when I showed her the definition, but she’d be hard pressed to say it out loud. 😂

so it’s still the other living room . Although I definetly renamed the speakers to snug. The spare rooms I call the spare rooms although I guess technically they are guest rooms, and the office is the office, I’d find saying study a bit pretentious to be fair.

It’s where they stored the tea bags maybe.

Wouldn't all their rooms be good? Not very posh if some of your rooms are a bit rubbish imh (wc) o.

Depends what you mean ... are we talking about people with sculleries and boot rooms? And some properly posh people may have quite shabby furniture and rugs because they've been in the house for generations.

Ha ha - same here. Was the 'play room' when we moved in 22 years ago and is still called that now. Sounds a bit weird actually now it's just me and DH living here.

The bedroom would be named after the colour of the walls 'I've put you in the blue room this time because Granny likes the green room' and obviously the room with the books is the library.

The bedroom would be named after the colour of the walls 'I've put you in the blue room this time because Granny likes the green room' and obviously the room with the books is the library.

Quite so. Unless it's the Chinese Bedroom or suchlike.

@ErrolTheDragon We've a boot room but we definitely aren't posh as we also have a lounge! We only call it a boot room as it was called that on the plans when we bought it and neither of us could come up with a more fitting name.

Lounge makes me think of a hotel or an airport but each to her own.
Personally I have a litter tray room.

The bedroom would be named after the colour of the walls 'I've put you in the blue room this time because Gran'

In that case, most of our rooms would have been the 'mould' room 😀

I'm team Uncle but that's just because it's what I call them. A study is somewhere you study, I don't study in the office I work from it. The spare room is the spare room because we don't use it for anything, we don't really have regular guests. Just nod along and plot his murder in your head 😂

It would be a spare room and a study in my world.

Number them.

We used to know an American family from the Mid-West who came to live in the UK for a number of years. They were unfamiliar with the Europe-wide term 'WC' for toilets and, to them, 'WC' stood for 'Wayside Chapel'. Hence the toilet soon came to be referred to as 'The Chapel'!

I think a spare room is a spare room until it is nicely presented and furnished to be a guest bedroom. Not a room with the old exercise bike, curtains that don’t quite fit, and an overflow ironing pile, which just happens to have a bed in it what friends can crash in.

My MIL is due to move house soon and she was telling us that the new property will not have a study like her current house does but it’s all ok because there is an office on the ground floor. I just smiled and nodded along as I really dont know what the difference is!

Yes, and be pretentious about it as well. Give them all 3-digit names, starting with the floor number, like in hotels!