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

123 replies

kreecherlivesupstairs · 27/10/2009 08:39

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?

OP posts:
LadyGlencoraPalliser · 29/10/2009 21:56

We call it the living room. My parents called the front room of their 1950s semi "the drawing room". It was only used for piano practice, christmas and honoured guests. Our family of six, spent all of our leisure time crammed into the "dining room" which was the back room.

EvilTwins · 29/10/2009 22:42

I call ours the front room. My parents call their living room that, so I guess it's habit. One of my DTs corrects me though. If I tell her something is "in the front room", she ALWAYS says "No, Mummy, the living room". She's 3.

shockers · 29/10/2009 23:06

Still wondering about "seasonal china". Do you have more substantial stoneware in winter and fine bone china in the summer months quintessential ?

Quattrofangs · 29/10/2009 23:19

We have two studies. Is that okay with you? If not, what would you like me to call them? I don't want to call them spare rooms because that would confuse them with the spare rooms.

AllyOodle · 30/10/2009 00:34

Isn't a "front room" a working-class version of a living room?
We are very pleased with ourselves for having an office (room too small for a single bed), a studio (DP is an artist) and a games room!!! (aka the XBox and the old telly in the dining room, which we never use for dining).
What I always wanted was a utility room with a wall-mounted ironing board and shelves for spray starch, but I only have a utility area between the kitchen and the loo. You gotta have a dream!

VulpusinaWilfsuit · 30/10/2009 00:50

We have two studies too But we are allowed because a. we are academics and therefore have to have somewhere private to sit on the Internet thing big thoughts and store all our crap books. And b. because I have to live near a really shite town.

VulpusinaWilfsuit · 30/10/2009 00:52

Who is it on MN that has a Futility Room? I have adopted this, since it is very apt in my boiler room full of plastic bags, fluff from the dryer, unwashed washing and very shiny pennies.

Lonicera · 30/10/2009 07:47

We have what the house builders called a study, but we call the office. Dh works from home a lot and it has morphed into "Daddy's office" , but I reserve my right to use it if it is available.

pingviner · 30/10/2009 11:16

I have a delusional study
I feel by calling the junk/spare bed room this in the hope it will make me... err, study there

salvolatile · 31/10/2009 19:59

Psst Pingviner, you flounced into the Georgette Heyer thread without a care in the world and have left Town agog with Rumours.....

scottishmummy · 31/10/2009 20:08

thought this was a rant against bampots who cite quasi-studies and biddulph as if they are irrefutable fact that nuresry is evil

i have a nursery btw

Ronaldinhio · 31/10/2009 20:12

I feel the same way when people who live in a flat describe it as an apartment

YANBU

Ronaldinhio · 31/10/2009 20:15

I was alway told that a lving room was for people who only had one room to live in...
Lounge for airports etc

We had a sitting room..self explanatory
Morning room ditto
Was ever confused by the drawing room though as of course we never...

ToffeeCrumble · 31/10/2009 20:21

YANBU. Even worse is when people have a room called "The Snug." So poncey. "The snug next to the Billiards Room in the West Wing."

scottishmummy · 31/10/2009 20:24

snug is a wee room in a bar

nooka · 31/10/2009 21:22

We currently have a living room, a playroom and a work room. The place we are renting has too many rooms really. I'd prefer to have an open plan kitchen/living area, big enough for sofas, big dining room table etc and then another smaller space for when things get a bit noisy, possibly with the capacity for guests to sleep in.

I grew up with a drawing room, study and nursery. They were the words my parents were used to, not particularly delusional, and fairly descriptive. The drawing room is where my father withdraws to, so actually fairly apt, the study where my mother did all her marking, and the nursery where we slept as children, it just never really changed it's name (now houses the TV, so I guess could be a den).

Jux · 31/10/2009 22:13

We have a studio.
We have a dining room which is becoming a library.
We have a conservatory which is becoming a study

We lack a nursery, snug, morning room, or any of those things. But we do have a sitting room

BoffMonster · 31/10/2009 22:20

I would like to proudly announce that in this house, I have a dressing room.

I feel I have almost arrived socially. When DH asked me if I was happy now, or whether I had any other domestic requirements, I reminded him we were still missing a bell tower.

He went somewhat pale.

salvolatile · 03/11/2009 18:51

Boffmonster, very poncetastically, we do have a belltower with bats to go with it (old Victorian house, bell once used to tell the estate workers it was time for lunch!). We also have a billiard room, music room drawing room, and sitting room amongst others and a nursery floor. Just the way the house was built - only problem is I don't have the army of tweenys once used to keep it clean

BoffMonster · 03/11/2009 21:55

Salvo, that's not a house, it's a flippin' Cluedo board! [grin}

You are so cool.

Anyone got an ice house? I had one of those once.

pooexplosions · 03/11/2009 22:07

I have an ice house. No wait, thats just my bedroom and its broken radiator....

am in awe of all these enormous sounding houses with snugs studies and morning rooms! I have 2 bedrooms, a small open plan kitchen/dining/living room, a bathroom and an ensuite. And a tiny balcony (instead of a garden)

I must have gone realy wrong in my life plan...

hatwoman · 03/11/2009 22:10

We have a study. I work from home and we have a room - downstairs - which has my pc, books and files in it. It's never occured to me to call it an office. It has a stone flagged floor and a fire. which doesn't seem very office-like. maybe if I called it an office I would work harder.

when I was little we had a drawing room, a sitting room, a rather poncily-named dining hall and a breakfast room. the dining hall was never called the dining room because one end of it was an area with armchairs around the fire generally used as a sitting room. the drawing room was the drawing room because we couldn;t have 2 sitting rooms and old houses don't have lounges.

tulpe · 03/11/2009 23:19

YABU.

Surely, the room where a baby sleeps is a nursery? Likewise, the room where the main function is to MN work should surely be called a study? (even if it does occasionally get used for other things).

Personally, cannot abide the use of "lounge" or "utility room". They just sound so......bleurgh. We have a sitting room and a laundry room.

CaptainUnderpants · 03/11/2009 23:34

The room the boys slept in as babies - we called a nursery. It now has a computer in it and all our filing etc - we now call it a study - we must be very delusional !

I also have a conservatory (which the guinea pigs run around in ) and a utlity room ( which is a cross bewteen a chinese laundry and a rugby changing room !)

We also have a back passage

hatwoman · 04/11/2009 13:04

a nursery is surely a room where nanny (or "nurse") looks after ("nurses") baby. including playing with him/her and feeding him/her, ideally away from the rest of the house so baby (and nurse) don't intrude(AA Milne's poems give a flavour of what I mean). Baby may also sleep there. It's almost like a room for keeping baby in, to be ocassionally wheeled out.

but in this day and age babies have bedrooms don't they? just like the rest of us. and get "nursed" all over the house.

I like and defend my study but agree with OP about nurseries. so last century.