Weirdest name for a room/area in your home

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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.)

The hovel. It's a storage room.

Our toddler walked into our kitchen one day and looked out of our window and said 'look, Sunny 🐈‍⬛ is on the lolly-house' so now the utility room, which houses our spare freezer where the kids took their ice lollies from is called the lolly house 🥰

We also had that cupboard, in our bungalow 🤣

I proudly give you ‘The Bottom Room.’

Named because it’s at the bottom of a long corridor rather than being full of bottoms.

... also got
The spider house /patch = the shed
The snuggle = occasional lounge as we have a kitchen/lounge/diner - the architect called it the snug but we thought that sounded a bit pretentious so went with snuggle as we have a cuddle chair /sofa

I have "the French Room", but only I call it that.
It's actually a shelf in the fridge that's labelled (by the manufacturer) "Fresh Room" but because of people calling the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air "the French Prince" (this might have been a Family Guy gag as well?) it's somehow become the French Room.

An estate agent friend of ours came round when we first moved in and labelled a spiderwebbed 2 ft space between two outside doors as ‘the boot room’ - it’s been that ever since.

To add to it - we call a grotty lean-to next to our garage our ‘wine cellar’.

When we moved the removal company labelled our bedrooms in order of size with large stickers on the doors. Well over 30 years later we still call them Bed One, Bed Two etc.

We have a toilet which you need to go outside to get to. It is a proper flushing toilet with a wash basin but we call it The Privy. Sometimes I think I'll get sign made for the door.

The room formerly called the Smoking Room was renamed when DH gave up years ago, and is now know as the Dirty Dog Room.
Because it's where the dogs go, if they're not outside in the Palace (their new kennel and run, which has some fancy wrought iron gates)
The drawing room is called the Parlour, as I think drawing room is a bit too grand.
The large study/library/family room is called the Shop Room because that's what it used to be.
The boiler room is also called the Boiling Room.
The useless bedroom, which is a thoroughfare to other parts of the house, is called, wait for it, the Walkthrough Room. Sometimes the Breakthrough Room, Breakout Room, Walkout Room.
Bedrooms are named after their original colours, even if they're all different now.
A back bedroom, which used to be an unplastered upstairs storeroom for the shop is now done out with waxed tongue and groove wood, and is called the Cigar Box.

My parents have 'the wine cellar' which is actually a boot cupboard by the back door that houses the sort of things that would go in the cupboard under the stairs if they didn't live in a bungalow. It got its name because they were given a case of posh wine as a wedding present and that's where dad stored it.

They also have a bedroom that frequently gets called the dining room and vice versa, because we swapped them over when I was about 15 and apparently it takes us rather a long time to get used to change

I have just realised we have lots of them. The cupboard over the stairs isn't actually over the stairs but just on the landing.

Way before Covid Dh would work from home maybe once a week and he had the spare bedroom set up as an office. The children were very little so they would ask where's Dad and I would say the office but they didn't know if I meant the office upstairs or in the city. It was renamed The Keep as in you had to be invited to come in, door open you can talk to Daddy, door closed, the drawbridge is up, he is busy.

When we moved into this house we converted a double garage into a massive playroom for the children so that was The Playroom. Later it became The Den as teenage Ds1 said "playroom" sounds like something from 50 Shades of Grey. Then in lockdown we put a wall up and divided it into 2 rooms, one is called The Sanctuary and the other is called The Portal because you can access the Store (back of the original garage where we keep a larder freezer) through it. So we have The Store, The Portal, The Sanctuary and The Keep.

My friend calls my double garage conversion The East Wing as it is on the East side of the house.

Oh I like this thread OP. I may have mentioned this before. My late parents had a big Victorian Terrace. There were two under stairs cupboards known as ‘the first pantry’ and the ‘the second pantry’. Nothing to do with food at all. The kitchen was always called the scullery. There was also ‘the middle room’ which was the bedroom that myself and my two siblings were born in. It later became a second sitting room.

I have a room called Narnia it's a small room my dh made for me off the kitchen with all my cleaning stuff and hoovers etc. out type of house only has a back door into the garden so my extra door to the side is a thing of wonder to anyone who visits 😁

When we went to view our house there was a four foot high statue of Jesus in a former deep window which had been blocked off. Seventeen years on and it’s still the Jesus hole.
There’s also a shelf lined old chimney breast where I keep books, we always refer to it as the book nook.

Living room is the warm room...from when it used to have a vivarium in it so was always felt a little warmer than the rest.
Kitchen island is Norman.... previously had an IKEA drawer set which we called by it's IKEA name (eg cutlery in top drawer of IKEA unit). When the new one came DH suggested it was called noman (is an island) but I misread it so we have Norman!

Our small office used to be a utility room. Everyone calls the office the old utility room. It’s an office ffs! It’s been ages too.

Love the Granny flat idea

We have the Pokey Hole under the stairs, and any shed we now call the swiss chalet both after a house my sisters had that had their weird cupboard that was huge but had no real purpose - think it had been an airing cupboard with tank but that had long gone and it was in the kitchen. They had also had a little shed down the bottom of their garden with fancy woodwork and veranda - hence the swiss chalet

We also have a room called "my room" - well its the craft room/office and spare bed which I generally sleep in as Hubby snores like a grizzly bear in hibernation and still disturbs me with the doors all shut - dog refuses to sleep in his room its so bad.

am so glad its not just my family who are so cookoo

We bought our current house from a lady who I would describe as "all fur coat and no knickers". She is incredibly pretentious, once she moved out (I live in a rural village) all sorts of people came out of the woodwork to regale us with stories of her wankerisms. One of them was she had a utility room. She talked about her utility room a lot. The next door neighbour has a huge utility room with sink, beautiful hand made cupboards, extra dishwasher, toilet and shower etc. It's beautiful. Pretentious lady was always going on about the fact that she had a utility room as well.. doing the elevenerife on it.

Neighbour came round for a coffee one day and I showed her round and she asked where the utility room was, I said I don't have one? She said yes you do, I think its near the main bathroom. It took a minute for us both to realise that the weird cupboard in the downstairs toilet where the washing machine is housed (odd setup I know) was being referred to as the utility...

We have the boot room, garden room and recording studio.

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Spare room

The "pink slip" is the US equivalent of the UK's P45. If you get the pink slip, it means that you no longer have a job.

Got it! Thank you.

We have the West Wing, which is really two rooms on the west side of the house (sitting room and sun room) which we don't use very often. At the weekends we often agree to open the West Wing which sounds very grand. It really isn't!

The Room of Requirement. Also known as "the stupid room" - a completely pointless room between the kitchen and the office which was clearly supposed to be a bedroom, but given you have to walk through it to get to the office can only have furniture on one side, to create a walkway (and also therefore can't be a bedroom). It is the Room of Requirement because it is full of junk and therefore may be able to provide what you require.