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

I guess this is what I have, as it has washer/dryer/sink and clothes maid but also all of our coats, boots/shoes and dog bowls and I put it by the back door so muddy boots (rural) don't come through the house... I would still call it a utility though.

Oh what is it with that phrase on here lately 🤣

Its like it was just discovered by on MN-er about 20 years after it was in popular use, and now everyone has picked up on it.

Never heard the term and doesn’t mean anything more than a usual utility surely?

now LOOtility I have heard of and at least it actually denotes the coming together of two rooms with separate functions.

In a private house a cloakroom is a downstairs toilet (disclaimer - my DH designed very upmarket bathrooms for many years and that's what he's always called it).

A coats cupboard or boot room is where you put your coats. I can see why you'd call a combination of utility and boot room a bootility, but it does sound a bit wanky!

@SabrinaBricklayer we had our first lootility in the late 1990s - it had toilet, basin, washing machine, boiler and space for brooms, hoover, ironing board etc. We always called it that or the 'futility'. Have moved house a few times since and have had several other lootility rooms. Currently renovating a period cottage which has a tiny d/s cloakroom with space for a washing machine. It's too small to be called a lootility!

Honestly you will get so tired of saying that. Just say the boot room or the utility room.

Maybe you could call it the cute-illity. 😁 honestly I had never heard of lootility till yesterday (bootility till today).

The cute-illity is full of kittens, surely? 😁

Kittens (and puppies) would be perfect cuteness. 😊

I now think all homes should have a cute-illity room 😁

It is wanky. I wish I had one though.

Wtf is a 'nothingburger'?

This is the first time I have heard this and I really wish I hadn't.

This is the correct answer.

Sounds like the kind of word that needs filing away with "plattyjubes" 🤢

Utility is descriptive enough.
Lootility I hadn't heard of, but makes sense as combining the two functions isn't a default but is a practical description.

Utility room - fine.

bootility room - sounds really really bizarre

I want a cute-ility now 😆😂🤣

@PauseButton I haven't a clue what a 'nothing burger' is either!

I’m going to do a Mariah Carey and demand kittens and puppies are delivered to my newly formed cute-ility room, now!!

When I was a child my grandmother always referred to our "scullery" which contained sink, gas cooker. washing machine, and table for food prep - so basically the kitchen. It led off a larger room which had the coal boiler, cupboards and a table and chairs for meals- which she called the 'breakfast room". This was in a terrace house in Streatham, not a country mansion!

I had a DF show me round their new home they announced they had a boot room. It’s was a four bed modern detached and I immediately thought ‘wanker’.

A boot room is the thing of the moment in the Influencer world, unfortunately the ones I have seen are no boot rooms at all, a boot room should be at the back of the house with a door from outside, somewhere to literally take your boots off before you enter the main house, however the ones I have seen are ludicrous, the so called boot rooms are at the front of the house so you have to traipse through your hallway before you reach said room, completely defeating the object. The worse boot room I have seen is Emily Norris who has one in the middle of her kitchen!

Ours is combined utility boot room and shower room. We are in the countryside so it houses many boots and dog stuff and all the chicken and cat stuff. Washer and dryer in there as well.
We just call it the utility room.

Forever known as the Little Knitty room in our house after I couldn’t say utility as a child!

Terrible term, only a twee fool would use it. All of that is 'the back passage' in our house, but that's because of the way it's structured with it being a sort of corridor of a room.

I've genuinely never heard that term. A utility room is more than acceptable. Boot room is just about acceptable if you've either; got a mansion/very large house, or, you live very rurally and are generally incredibly outdoorsy. Otherwise, it's wanky made-up nonsense.

It’s a ridiculously wanky term. A boot room and a utility room are two entirely different things, with two entirely different purposes. A boot room is for muddy boots, wet coats, dogs, walking sticks and the general debris of rural life. A utility room is for washing machines, tumble dryers, the ironing board and all the other tedious stuff that keeps a house functioning.

They are not interchangeable. If your washing machine lives next to your wellies, you haven’t invented a fabulous new room. You’ve simply put your washing machine next to your wellies. Calling it a ‘bootility’ room doesn’t make it a feature of a grand country house. It makes it a utility room with delusions of grandeur.

And I strongly suspect the same people who have a ‘bootility room’ also have a ‘pantry’ that’s actually a cupboard and a ‘dressing room’ that’s a spare bedroom with a clothes rail. Please stop inventing portmanteaus to make perfectly ordinary domestic arrangements sound like something from the pages of Country Life.

It’s a utility room ‘hun’, just because you’ve plonked a pair of Hunters in the corner doesn’t make it something else.

The back passage 😂

We would use this phrase if referring to the anus.

Same for my grandmother, the scullery was what I would call the kitchen, and she called the adjacent room with the breakfast table in 'the kitchen', causing lots of confusion when I was a child.
She was Irish, so I don't know if it is an Irish thing. She was also 'in service' as a maid early in the 20thC, so it may be she picked up the terminology then.