Do you think a bootility room is a wanky term?

[PumpkinWanker]

small room for storage for coats, shoes, bags, ironing board, iron, hoover and a sink:
Yanbu it is a wanky term
yabu - no it describes what it is

Wanky!
it’s the ‘lolly house’ in our house coined by our now teenager when he was a toddler because that’s where the lollies were kept!

That sounds utter bliss! I'm so envious.

Language has to develop but I think that term is ugly and faintly ridiculous. I hadn't heard it before and hope I never hear it again!

I've only ever heard Americans use "mud room". In UK it's a boot room and always has been (as in a couple of centuries at least). They have always tended to have a sink or at least a water supply because it's a room meant for dealing with muddy things.

It sounds like a cloakroom.

Calling it a bootility is wanky yes, @PumpkinWanker . Calling it a utility is also pushing it.

In our house it would be called a cupboard,

Yes, I was living there when I visited a home with one. My sons were little at the time and I was so envious of having a room like that to dump stuff. It did not have appliances but more resembled a school cloakroom with lots of hooks and benches.

Our extension gave us a new kitchen but our old kitchen still exists. It has an entrance from outside, sink, houses the washing machine and still has kitchen cupboards now full of boots, dog coats etc. Also used to dry washing inside in the winter so has a heated dryer and dehumidifier. We've been calling it the bootility as it is part utility room and part boot room. Didn't realise so many were offended by that 🤔

I hate it when two words are cobbled together. Chillax and the like.
Call it a boot room or a utility room, or even use both interchangeably, but there is no need for "bootility"

Never heard this term. Made me smile.

It sounds to me like it was invented by estate agents to try and upsell cheaply built carbon copy new build estates by making them sound more classy for the aspiring middle classes.

So yes, wanky.

If you've got an actual boot room in a country house then you're properly posh.

Obviously yes. It’s a utility room. A boot room is something else entirely.

Bit silly but it’s their own house they’re talking about so why would you care?

I heard the expression ‘lootility’ yesterday. A downstairs toilet with room for a washing machine.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cloakroom

Check definition 2 it used to be commonly used for a downstairs toilet, the coats wouldn't be in the loo per se, there would usually be a separate door from the coat area to the loo.

My son used to say mayhap, (maybe/perhaps). which used to make me chuckle. He probably only said it in the house though (he didn’t create it).

Yes it's wanky. It's just a room - why does it need a twee name?

Do you have a "coffee station" too OP? kettle and some coffee on the worktop

A "reading nook"? chair

Oh Christ No!!!!!!!

Boot room or utility. Don't be THAT wanker

First time I've heard this term. I tend to think a boot room is primarily a big space for shoes and coats that's a bit more than a hallway and usually at the back of the house and said house is in the countryside or a village rather than a city or town. If it has appliances in it, I might still call it a boot room, if its predominant use was for washing and using said utilities then I'd call it a utility room. Nothing would tempt me to adopt the term 'bootility room'. The cottages in our lane often have Victorian add ons that started life as loos accessed from outside and adjacent coal houses. As far as I'm aware, no one down here still has that arrangement. The rebuilds are mostly utility with a sep loo or bathroom/shower room. The term 'bootility' or even 'lootity' has not been heard. None are located in a position relative to a back door/rear entrance to property that make calling them a boot room appropriate, although a few differently configured properties nearby do have boot rooms.

No, a scullery is off the kitchen, and is like a small kitchen for the dirty work. It is where you wash the mud off the vegetables that have just come in from the kitchen garden. You also wash pots and pans in the scullery.

Not heard the term bootility, its called the 'back kitchen' here. Lots of boots and wellies tripping you up going into the kitchen, various old coats and overalls hanging up, plus Belfast sink, washing machine & freezer.

So it’s my sister who keeps calling a room in her new extension this term and it makes me cringe but I was doubting myself thinking maybe it was a me issue but I’m pleased to see on the results it’s overwhelmingly not just me!

It's an idiotic term. A utility room is what you are describing.

A boot room is something totally different that you find in large country houses where people go riding and shooting and need a room for the country pursuits detritus. You would never have laundry in a boot room as it's dirty and where the muddy boots come off.

A 'bootility' room (I've never heard that before today) is an obvious made up term suitable for a Hyacinth Bucket type with pretensions who wishes they had a house requiring a boot room but is just in an average Barratt Home ! LOL.

Yes I think it's a wanky term @PumpkinWanker

Futility room here also. Love it and wouldn’t be without it.