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

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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?

our DS has always had a bedroom not a nursery. we didn't decorate until he was ONE year old. what's the point, they don't know any better. He couldn't say 'no mum, I want my room to be red with racing cars on it - make sure it's Roary because nothing else will possibly do'.

I think people are very precious about it all, it's only a bedroom for a baby to sleep in.

We don't have a study just a box room with a computer in it!

so YANBU OP

YABU.

We have a study. It's the box room that some people would use as a spare room, but we need a place for me to study and DH to work from home sometimes more than we need an empty room with a bed waiting for the odd guest!

We don't have a nursery, but we do have a playroom. We have front and back reception rooms and we happen to use the back room as a place for the kids to play and watch TV and rub their sticky fingers all over every surface.

We aren't posh or particularly wealthy.

Get us - we have a pantry!

It's where we keep the bread machine

We call our loft conversion the attic - is that poncy?

We have an office (not a study, as DH works in there rather than study), a playroom, a lounge and the bedrooms are all just called X's bedroom.
My Dad has a front room, because he has two lounges, one of which is at the front of the house! the other is called the back lounge.

oh, my dad has had a study since I was a baby. What it actually is, is a room that he sits and gets pissed in.

YANBU!

We have a study- as it can't fit a double bed and its got all of our books, computer etc, a spare room, the babies room (which we call a bed room as it can fit a double bed)

However I also have a dining room which we never use as we all eat in the kitchen so should I really call the dining room the dining room or the badly decorated antique dumping ground that it is?

We have a vestibule....and I dont mean the fanjo type.

YABU. but why on earth do you care what people call their rooms?!

DH works at home, and both sets of parents quite often come to stay to visit their gcs because they live a very long way away, so our 'spare bedroom' tends to get called the study when they're not in it, because he is in it working.

we don't call dd's room the nursery, never did, just personal preference, but you can see why people do get all misty eyed over their first born - just look at most shops which have 'nursery' sections don't they, so i reckon people pick it up from that rather than some vision of old fashioned mary poppins.

I find the term 'nursery' quite nauseating, as does DH. They aren't babies long enough to call their room a nursery, before we know it they're toddling around well out of the baby stage. A bedroom IMHO is really what it should be called.

Bleugh! to nursery

I think YAB a teeny bit U.
Who cares what people call the rooms in their houses lol.

I have just moved into my first proper home with my fiance, it is a 3 bed flat.
Prior to moving in, I had ear-marked the room that was just off the front room as 'the office' and the room opposite to our bedroom as the 'spare bedroom' and one day 'nursery'...

... as it stands, the 'spare bedroom' is piled high with boxes of unpacked stuff that I pretty much live from and my 'office' currently stinks of bunny wee as its been taken over by my rather aggressive rabbit who has gone crazy with power and pretty much throws a strop if I even look like I am about to set foot in her domain

I hate the term lounge, no idea why but it makes my skin crawl, its a front room as far as I am concerned... I blame the parents

YANBU. They also, of course, have a butler and a ladies maid to help them change for dinner!

If you always put the youngest child into the nursery while they are a baby and then move them into another bedroom when they get old enough, is it allowed as a term then?

Also ... ... does anyone have a day nursery and a night nursery?

Plus I have thought of another great room I had in a previous house ... oh yes ... beat this ... we had a WIG ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS If I remember correctly, I think it was technically called a powder room in historic documents, which is probably where the term came from.

YANBU tis insane. I went to coffee at someones house the other day and they told be to "please put my brolli in the entrance hall"
It was a porch !

huh a wig room ?

It was more or less wedge shaped, situated between two oval rooms, with shelves either side of the sash window, which went all the way back into the corners. On these shelves there was probably space for two or three wooden head shaped thingies on each side, presumably to rest your wig on and also powder it, comb it, etc. There was space in front of the window for a little table and seat, I imagine so you could sit down and put your wig on and primp yourself a bit. From the layout of this area of the house I got the impression the young ladies concerned actually sorted out their own wigs, at least some of the time.

What was really great about this house, built in the late 18th century, was that in the darkest recesses of Sotheby's someone found the original catalogue for the sale of the contents when the first owner was moving out, so we learnt an enormous amount about what different rooms had been used for and so on, as well as how they were decorated. This was like actually touching history!

my dh thinks im pretentious as i refer to the bit at the end of our garden as "the meadow" it is only normal garden width and size but it gets covered in snowdrops and daffodils in spring and it has a beautiful spreading tree to give shade in the summer, it looks like a meadow albeit on a very small scale!!

branflake - I too would like a library, even it is just a little room with the book shelves in!

Boffmonster - you win - a wig room trumps a belltower!

We have what was once a building for an outdoor toilet (but the hole in a piece of wood type, not an actual flushing toilet) and we refer to it as the 'wood shed' even though it is actually full of cardboard boxes that nobody can be bothered to take to the tip.

Salvo, I have to say a wig room is easily achieved and they probably existed all over the place, whereas a bell tower to call in the estate workers is truly grand and magnificent. I honestly feel the victory is yours.