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?

I wouldn't have him over to my house if he was going to be so disrespectful. It's your house you get to call the rooms whatever you want. I hate the guise of bullying being called "banter" 😠
In our house the guest/spare room is called the middle room, because it's in the middle. It only has a single bed and it also serves as the WFH space so I wouldn't call it the guest room - although I would love to have a room nice enough to call it a guest room, as to me that gives vibes of a nice, restful, place for guests. What we have is usually full of clothes waiting to be put away, the random bits of crap that no-one knows what to do with, a WFH desk, and a spare bed.

To be honest I find guest room a little pretentious if you’ve only got one and it’s in a fairly bog standard 3 bed house. Technically it is a guest room, yes . But a spare room is also defined as a room for guests to sleep in.it feels a little pretentious to me to refer to it as a guest room unless you’re living in a country pile.

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/spare-room

This is reminding me of my childhood too. Our house was an old one with servants' bells in the kitchen so the rooms were labelled as they once were.

I used to cringe when my mother referred to "the drawing room" - I think she thought both "lounge" and "living room" were rather common. She had strong views about "sofa" and "settee" too, although I can't recall what.

Oh look - the same dictionary you used also defines a guest room as "a bedroom for a visitor or visitors to use" - no mention of a country pile!!

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/guest-room

"Lovely to have you staying over Mum and Dad.... You're in Carol tonight....." 😂 🤣

I should probably name change for this but I like to live dangerously…

I painted our spare room/office/knitting room a glorious green. After we were done painting my husband looks around and said “Well that is a frogs butt green room isn’t it?”

The room has forever since been named The Frog Room.

Goodness. I had no idea you needed to be that posh to be middle class. If you're right it's going to be standing room only and a queue round the block down here in the lower echelons, what with all the people who've discovered they need to downgrade themselves.

We have two spare bedrooms - a snoring room and a sewing room.

Live out in the sticks, Drawing room is the standard term round these parts for the lounge/living/sitting room.

Friend of mine's parents have a room called Eric. They moved in when friend and siblings were still all at home. It's a den/snug type room and they were debating what to call it, and one of them suggested Eric. It stuck 😁

(Wondering if anyone else who knows them will read this!)

When I was younger and lived in a big house we had a drawing room and a sitting room, a guest room and a library, and we also had a scullery instead of a utility room. The library was just a study but two walls were lined with bookshelves.

An office is somewhere outside the home where you go to work and I assume a spare room is an extra bedroom in a house where people don't keep the room ready for guests but probably use it more for storage.

I always thought the words vestibule and lobby were reserved for public buildings.

Really?! These things are just fun, not to be taken seriously, surely?

My old house was called 'OldTinHat Towers'. We had east and west, north and south wings depending if we were upstairs or down, front or back rooms.

My current house has spare bedrooms called the 'Pink Room' (it's not pink), the 'XXX Name Room' (sorry, can't out but XXX is long gone!), and the 'Penthouse Suite' (loft room which is just a room).

The room I sleep in is called 'Stay the Hell Out Room' when I have visitors.

The garden is called 'The Wilds' because it's 150ft of weeds that I can't manage 🤭

Well we have a downstairs study. In fact, the upstairs guest room doubles as a second study. 😁

Sorry, but your mother was a common guttersnipe - the proper name is "withdrawing room"!

All room names should follow the cluedo theme IMO!

We have a spare (bed)room for guests and a study.

I've never had an argument about what they are called and don't really care if others use different names.

You have an Uncle problem. Politely tell him to be quiet.

My friend's mum used the word lounge when we always said living room. I thought her mum was posh!

An estate agent once described a (grotty, mid-terrace, in a v undesirable area) house I was selling as a "charming cottage"...you have a long way to go before you beat them on pretentiousness OP

I thought if its main purpose is for work, it's an office, but if its main purpose is more casual, it's a study.

We WFH in the office, but we also have a study where all the books are and quiet time is had.

The spare bedroom is just called "the small room" in our house.

Love the vestibule medical meaning!

We have a vestibule (mini room for dumping your shoes just inside the front door) but we know that's a pretentious word so I sometimes say it in David Mitchell's voice.

When I'm feeling very posh I call it the Atrium (it's about 3m2 lol)

We also have a study where dh wfh most days, but confusingly for my dc we do call it Daddy's office - it's confusing because when he's not wfh he's "going into the office". So then we have to clarify - the office in town. We didn't think that through, really

According to sticklers for ‘correctness’ your DH is right. It’s a class divider:
lounges are for hotels and airports, not private houses. A hall is like the entrance to Downton Abbey, not your average semi. Other examples are lavatory not toilet, napkin not serviette. All a bit silly really.

Why does your uncle come round and start talking about your guest/spare room and your study/office? Does he not have anything else to talk about?!
I'd really piss him off and start calling them Doris and Boris (insert names of your choosing!)

I have a garden office where I work from.
It fucks me right off when people talk about me working from my shed.
It's not a shed. It has laminate floor, double glazing, an independent electricity supply, dimmer switches etc.
To me it seems like they are mocking me a bit, or thinking I'm not doing real work. I correct them every time.

@MoaningMeowing the blue room! Brilliant! Do it.

and tell uncle that you house is none of his business and he can call his rooms what he likes, but your happy with your choices

tell him to keep his opinions to himself, he’s being rude and it’s tiresome.