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Weirdest name for a room/area in your home

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Persipan · 04/03/2024 09:26

Inspired by my having rooms in my house called "horse's room"* *and "the pretend bedroom". I am surely not the only one to be this weird...

(Horse's room is actually a sort of study/craft room, but a hobby horse is stored there in amongst a load of rolls of wrapping paper, so apparently it's his room. The pretend bedroom is a sightly hard-to-define space which could be a perfectly sensible dining room only we don't have a dining table in it. Got fed up of calling it 'that room... in there' and my 3yo decided that we should pretend it's a bedroom.)

(Yes my house is quite big, but also exceptionally shabby and peculiar. My shopping list was 'big, cheap and weird' and I achieved all points.)

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peachescariad · 04/03/2024 11:02

My parents have 4 bedrooms, 3 are known as 'the pink room', 'the blue room' and 'the yellow room'

AlltheFs · 04/03/2024 11:03

We have a small cottage but we also have a log cabin office/sitting room in one of the gardens (has a big desk set up but also a sofa and massive TV from our old house that didn’t fit in this one).

It’s called “the top”. I have no idea why. It’s up a bank I suppose, there’s steps up. But it has alway been.

Pfpppl · 04/03/2024 11:04

We had an extension a couple of years ago. It has a dining area at one end and a lounge area at the other. DS is always in the main lounge as that's where his PlayStation lives, so DH and watch TV in the new bit. I never know what to call it so it is still just "the extension".

ApplePippa · 04/03/2024 11:04

Bumblebeeinatree · 04/03/2024 10:10

The Tardis for the garage, everything has to fit in, so it must be. Comments like, 'Put that in the Tardis if you want to keep it!'

Our whole house is called The Tardis! It's a very small square detached house that feels more spacious inside than it looks from the outside.

We also have The Airlock. It's the lobby between the front door and the living room door - the house is too small for a proper hall.

CleftChin · 04/03/2024 11:05

The Control Room (was playroom, but now they're older it's dark, with computers and they sit in there with headsets playing games online with their friends)

and The Crossfit room - room they used to do zoom crossfit in during lockdown, but is now just the living room again really, but the name has stuck.

When I was at Uni, we had the blue room and the green room - although they'd long-since been re-painted entirely different colours.

Marchingforwards · 04/03/2024 11:06

We have The HC. (Hall cupboard) and The Terrance. (Terrace/patio/ bit outside)

WarningOfGails · 04/03/2024 11:07

We call the playroom ‘the day nursery’, because our house is an old Victorian and originally had a day nursery, school room etc and it tickled us.

my MIL had a room called ‘the cold part of the house’

Wormwoodgal · 04/03/2024 11:09

When we lived in a house with four bedrooms they were The Bedroom, The Spare Room, The Spare Spare Room, and The Spare Spare Spare Room.

MrsMoastyToasty · 04/03/2024 11:09

DS uses one of the spare bedrooms at DM house when he stays. It's called "My Small Bedroom " despite being larger than the other 2 spare rooms in her house.
We also have a set of "Racing Keys" for our front door. This is just a plain key ring with a front door and garage door key on it. (Rather than a bunch with loads of keys that we normally carry).

IntriguingFactJumble · 04/03/2024 11:09

Part of the attic has a sort of door, really a hinged bit of wall that opens into some unsorted space - we call it Narnia.

bookmarket · 04/03/2024 11:11

Our smallest bedroom is referred to as 'the back room' even though it's at the front b of the house. I think it's because in our first house the smallest bedroom was at the back and we called it the back room. Whenever I say it, everyone in the house knows which room I mean.

DiscoBeat · 04/03/2024 11:11

Not in the house but we do have a bit of garden the other side of a stream which we call America, because it's across the pond.

Bobbyelvis4ever · 04/03/2024 11:12

We have The Lemur Room (because of the wallpaper), and The Surgery (because the toddler can't say conservatory).

theveryhungrybum · 04/03/2024 11:15

We have 'the funny little room off the pool room' which used to be a bedroom when the downstairs area was sectioned off into a self contained flat. We have some comfy chairs in there now to fill in the space. No one ever uses it.

PricklyBob · 04/03/2024 11:15

Eric.

AKA the downstairs loo. There was debate (involving ILs) about it being uncouth to say downstairs loo or toilet. We argued that we can't call it the downstairs bathroom because it's just a toilet and sink. Somehow we ended up calling it Eric and it has stuck for over 10 years.

bookmarket · 04/03/2024 11:17

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 04/03/2024 10:04

I'm not sure if this counts but about a decade ago we had a couple of friends stay with out for a few months after a house sale fell through while they were arranging their new place.

The room they stayed in is still called Amy and Pauls room!

We bought my mum's old car as a second car and for teen DD to drive. We still call it 'grandma's car'

BarbaricPeach · 04/03/2024 11:21

We have a cupboard where we kept all the dog's food and equipment. We don't have the dog anymore but it remains the Dog Cupboard if anyone is looking for stuff.

We also have "(cat's name)'s Nook" which is a nook under the stairs where her litter tray used to be. Again, it isn't there anymore but the name remains.

OldTinHat · 04/03/2024 11:23

I have a room that I call the Pink Room. It's painted white.

FloralQuestions · 04/03/2024 11:33

In our old house we have 'the french cupboard' which was a larder which ran underneath some stairs.

We also had 'the chicane' which was a tiny bend in the hallway, once referred to as a 'chicane' by a carpet fitter.

In our new house we have 'the middle room' which is a room in the middle of the house - it's sometimes referred to as 'living room 2' which describes how it's used.

tealweasel · 04/03/2024 11:49

The stoffice - there's a small landing halfway up the stairs to our top floor where I have my WFH set-up. It's my st(air)(o)ffice.

We had a Green Room at our old house (office/spare bedroom/general dumping ground) and I once lived in a rental flat that had a tiny cupboard/corridor (maybe 2ft by 2ft?) connecting the living room and kitchen which we called The Void.

Terryscombover · 04/03/2024 11:57

We had a large landing cupboard always know as "Terry's" room as the curled it in when the house was empty and declared it their spare room.

peppermintcrisp · 04/03/2024 11:57

We call the utility off the garage 'the back house'.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 04/03/2024 12:03

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 04/03/2024 10:10

We have two spare rooms we rent out to lodgers which are named by their paint colours, Gentle Sky and Pink Slip.

My parents have a room that is still referred to by the designation on the builders’ plans when they were renovating the house in the 90s, G1.

Pink Slip

That's a really unfortunate name if you're American.

AgentProvocateur · 04/03/2024 12:08

We have a very small room with the ironing board and iron, but as none of us iron, we call it the irony room.

GoingOutShoes · 04/03/2024 12:08

I have the Potting She'd, which once used to be a tiny kitchen. Works for me cos it's my Shed.

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