To think that those people who talk about nurseries and studies are delusional?

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

I really can't bear it, when our dd was born she had her bedroom, we didn't have a nursery, posh people have those with nannies who sleep in a small room off the nursery.
It is the same with study. Oh, you'll have to wait to speak to X, he's just in the study.
I had the latter conversation yesterday. I know full well that this family live in a flat like us. Is their study next to the non existant ballroom or is it just the spare room with a computer in it?

We have an office and the DC's bedrooms have always been DD's bedroom and DS's bedroom. Never had a nursery.

The office has a cross trainer, ironing board and shoes/jackets in it though and generally I use the laptop in the living room.

We do have a large landing upstairs with bookshelves, a chair and wee tv that we call the Bibliotheque or The Snug.

I have recently taken to referring to the Futility Room after reading that on MN.

Kreecher
Oh, of course. The nuclear bunker. Got one of those too.

It is fuuuuuuull of junk so that in the unlikely event, we would have to spend precious hours emptying it.

Saying that, a guy came recently and fixed one of the vents. He said if he had not done that then we may have had damage to our eardrums after the blast.

That is great then, our eardrums will be fine.

We have a study as it's where I study...like Kreecher we have a cellar, and this is divided into the boiler room; the utility room; the off licence and spar shop; the garage and the warhammer room/book overflow.

I once worked for a family who had a "boot- room" for coats, boots, sports equipement and school bags, a "laundry room" with 2 washing machines, 2 tumble dryers, airers, 2 freezers and a cage (8x8 foot square) for the dogs bed, a "larder" (4x10 foot room with canned food, pasta etc and cooking untensils that weren't used often) a "library" large room with the biggest fireplace ever and dark oak bookshelves floor to ceiling on 3 sides (loved that room and I want one!) a "drawing room" which no-one ever used (I worked there for nearly 3 years, the children went in once and the parents used 4 times (the housekeeper told me when she had to clean it!)) it was white, white walls, white carpet, white sofas (x3) with pastel cushions,so can see why the children weren't allowed in! They had a "dining room" light oak panelled room with huge table that sat 16 with 16 carver chairs, never used! a "gun room" which surprisingly had guns in (in locked cabinets of course, 4 children under 6!) 6 bedrooms (called the rose room, the blue room, the oak room, the yellow room, the tea room!, bosses huge bedroom with huge dressing room and two bathrooms off!) a study, an office and the staff bedroom on first floor. And then 5 bedrooms a kitchen a sitting room and a playroom on the "nursery floor"! They were a lovely family! pretty much down to earth.

They also had, indoor and outdoor pools, tennis courts, a playground, 8 "staff" cottages (mine had 3 bedrooms!!!) and 25 acres of land. The 6 year old could drive the kit car around the estate (once he had fought me for the keys of course, was great fun!)

i think yabu, people can call a room what they like.

My nana's house had a Front Room and a Pantry!

We have a bedroom which is a thoroughfare so can't really be used as a bedroom. Pre dc it had bookshelves and 2 desks in it. I experimented with calling it 'the study' but felt a bit of a twat so ended up calling it 'the computer room'. Once the dc arrived it morphed into a playroom.

I did used to call dd1's bedroom a nursery because it has Winnie the Pooh wallpaper and a cot. dd2's always had a bedroom though, not sure why.

Oh, and I've got a pantry, essentially a huge under the stairs cupboard.

We have a garden room,basically it's a glorified shed.It was described as the garden room on the estate agents details when we were looking round and it just stuck.We think the house used to be a show house and the room was the site office.It's a strange room,part of the house but only accessible from the outside through a patio door!It's used to store all our junk and bikes etc.

Oh I forgot about the wine cellar and DB games room (away from the house with a huge sound system, cine tv (pull down screen, way before flat screen tv's) full sized snooker table, oak bar with beers on draught and spirits on optics and a fridge/freezer which housekeeper kept stocked with mixers, lemons, ice, etc, bathroom (with a shower) sitting area, with manly sofas (brown leather but lovely!) Was fab when they went on holiday (4 weeks in the summer) and left me to "look after" the house!

Of course I never abused that trust but I did have people over to stay (in my cottage) and use the facilities!

hever - the critical point is when mummy descends trailing bin bags and fury.

It depends on whether people are being totally honest about their rooms' functions or whether they are being pretentious stretching the truth a bit. My parents have an "office" in their house that couldn't be anything else - it is miles down a corridor, very large, and totally unsuited to being a bedroom or playroom. They have a "television room" which is rather dark and similarly unsuited to any other purpose. Etc.

Agree with OP that if you live in a house without lots of extra rooms, the rooms should have standard names that match the occupation that goes on within them.

We have a room which is probably having an identity crisis, because it's been called so many things

The people who sold us the house called it 'the new lounge' - it's an extension that wasn't quite finished when we first saw the house.

The estate agents called it the 'Family Room', which is a name I hate. It became the 'playroom' while the DCs were young, but they asked me to stop calling it that when they were teenagers, so it became 'The Other Room', though its most frequent use was a a kind of dormitory for sleepovers.

After they had both gone to university last year it degenerated into 'The Junk Room' which we hardly ever went into (I moved the Christmas tree into it, still fully decorated, in a hurry when I had people coming over, and it stayed there until July )

DS came home from university this summer & started to reorganise/redecorate everywhere while looking for a job. He turfed out most of the junk, we got a new sofa bed & it now has TV/DVD/Playstation, music stuff & the desktop PC, as well as a lot of books - so I suppose 'Media Room' might be the best name. It's actually quite nice in there now, but the radiator doesn't work very well,so it's always rather cold.

At some point it will probably turn into a downstairs bedroom for either my Dad or (God forbid) MIL if either becomes unable to live alone, so it has yet another function to look forward to...

We have a study/spare room, but as it's only used as a spare room 2 or 3 times a year, and is used as a study (I work from home) daily, we tend to call it the study. DS's room is called 'DS's room', and the room for the baby coming next week is currently 'baby's room', we don't tend to use 'nursery'.

I lust after a library, boot room, music room and larder for when I win the lottery.

We had a study with a proper desk and bookcases but it became the guest spare room until my DB moved in now we dont have either

Branflake DS2 is always saying "come to my library". He means the bottom two shelves on the bookcase in the hall, but is soo proud of his 'library'

I noticed on the particulars of our neighbours house when it was up for sale reference to a 'dressing area'. I was confused for a while thne realised they meant the corridor bit in front of the wardrobes

"Nursery" is a little pretentious. But I do have an office/study because I work at home.

Rusty
I was going to suggest the name 'The Snug' for your nameless room until I read that it is always cold as the heating doesn't work. Perhaps the 'Artic Room' or 'The Igloo'.

We don't have a study, we call it the library . But my DH has built me a wall of bookshelves, so only a little bit delusional. And it was originally the morning room (is a very old house, found the description in an old local paper in the library).

We don't have a nuclear bunker like kreecher, but we do also have an air raid shelter in the basement, formed from what was a light well.

YABU if you are spplying it to everyone, we have a nursery off our bedroom and when my ds is ready for a proper bed he is going into another room which will be his bedroom,and if we have another baby s/he will go into the nursery then transfer to its own bedroom. if you are just talking about a three room flat where the nursery is just a bedroom then YANBU.

Oh I so want a boot-room . I do have a study though, AND a music room . They are poncetastic!

However no spare bedroom or playroom/games room. Yet - probably next year.

We have a library. It has nine floor to ceiling bookcases (Ikea Billy ones) in it full of books. It definitely qualifies as a library.

Actually, the rest of the house has another eight bookcases as well - maybe we live in a library?

We do also have a television room - it is very cold (no heating) and you really need to WANT to watch television to go in there. We keep blankets in there so people can wrap themselves up when desperate. My children assume that everyone does this when watching television. My sister finds it funny that when DS2 was visiting he asked to watch her television and then looked everywhere for the blanket.

My friend's DH used to keep his computer in the under-the-stairs cupboard. He called it the Batcave.

My DH's boss has a "wine cellar". I got excited when we went to the work summer BBQ and was asked if I'd like to see it. It's just a basement room with a couple of dusty bottles of wine in. I was expecting racks of wine and barrels and stuff.

YABU (a bit) although I agree it can sound pretentious

Quintessial - I want your house - it sounds great!

Out of interest, what do you all call the main room in your house? My parents & family call it the "living room", lots of people I know call it the "lounge". We call it the "sitting room" - perfectly appropriate as it's the only room in the house where I do "sit".

Evil Twins - when we've been to France and stocked up on the vino, it gets stored under the stairs which we laughingly refer to as the "wine cellar".

does anybody have a 'front room'?