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?

Helen the hallway, Keith the kitchen, Bob the bathroom, Betty, Barney and Brian the bedrooms? I love it!

I do hope if there's a clump of bushes in the garden somewhere that's the Shrubbery?

We have two spare rooms, one is my (4 days per week) WFH office and the other has a sofa bed/wardrobe/pile of crap we haven't put anywhere else.

We started to refer to them by the colour of the walls so one is the green room, one is the red room, but not sure why/how it started.

I don't particularly like it, as it sounds wanky and pretentious, but its a habit we have fallen into now and I tend to say their names ironically/piss takey now!

We’ve also got a room full of junk or stuff we’ve put aside but not ready to abandon and it’s accurately known as The Room of Doom. Maybe I should rechristen it Rod 😆

We have a guest room and two offices. I also say lounge (as we also have a separate dining/living room). I'm foreign though, although very British and very northern DH also uses these terms.

Our estate agent also called our entrance hallway room (it's pretty big at around 4.5x7m, and it's the 'ante-room' before the actual hallway) the "vestibule" and our "garage" the East Wing. Granted the "garage" is the old coach house with the huge swinging gates/doors intact, and technically yes an east "wing" that was added around 1900. But still. The East Wing 😂

Your uncle sounds controlling. Why does he care what you call it. Maybe start referring to it as your guest wing instead to wind him up even more.

You could always have the Prof Emeritus Sir Sebastian Ffffoulkes-Ffffarquharson Memorial Reading Gallery - for the bookshelf under the stairs!

🤣🤣

No one has locations next to their comments but I'd be curious how many of these differences are regional variations. Were you raised in the same general area as your uncle?
Personally I'm from the Midlands and use every single one of these interchangeably, sometimes even in the same conversation. "Oh yeah you're in the back bedroom tonight. DH did you put the extra pillows in the spare room? Yeah he did so ill take you up to the guest room now" 🤣
Except vestibule... I've never called anything a vestibule. Its a church word for me. They have vestibules.

It obviously doesn’t matter what everyone calls the difference rules as long as we can all be understood.

However I think strictly your terms might be American? <hides>

Have you tried telling the uncle to fuck off about what you call your own rooms and your own house?

Either that, or just stop talking to him at all about it

Call them whatever you want.

Our "guest room" is called Sophie and our "study" is called James

You need to paint the rooms in different colours, or put up some naice chinoiserie wallpaper. Then you can say, oh uncle, welcome, we've put you in the blue room, and cousin is in the Chinese room.

Hee hee :-)

You can call your rooms whatever the heck you want. He sounds like an opinionated oaf.