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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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NoIdeasForWittyNickname · 06/03/2024 01:07

Not quite the room, but the back end our narrow and somewhat disproportionately long garden is called The End of the World

BarrelOfOtters · 06/03/2024 05:48

Cat sulking room.

LunarC · 06/03/2024 05:56

We have a room called the 'Amazon Fulfilment Centre' which is the smallest spare room where all items destined to be ebayed / vinted go to be photographed, packed and stored.

Persipan · 06/03/2024 06:16

I had high hopes in asking this question, and I have to say you have all done me proud! All these little pockets of domestic weirdness really do gladden my heart.

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Eviebeans · 06/03/2024 06:28

We have a “Miranda”. A wooden structure that we had built onto a shed in our garden. We use it as a sitting/barbecue/all sorts of other things area

SuddenlyOld · 06/03/2024 20:29

Great thread!

We've recently moved here so still getting used to what we call things. The back of the house has a full width lean-to thing. It was marketed as a sun room. EA called it a lean-to. It's not a conservatory. I just call it the porch (despite having a real porch at the front). The huge dormer in the roof is the observatory because DH has set his telescope up there. We have a shed which was used as a bar. We call it the pool room because we've put the pool and inflatables in there.

Dinodrivingacar · 06/03/2024 20:31

"the cupboard under the stairs" only we live in a bungalow and it is definitely not under any stairs!

blackdressy · 20/04/2024 12:02

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Looking for Maths, English and possibly Science.

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irishmurdoch · 20/04/2024 12:20

In our old house we had a spare bedroom where my hoarder husband stored all his sh*t, forever known as the room of wires

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 20/04/2024 12:40

You need to start your own thread @blackdressy , probably on the Education bit of the site. You've posted this in the middle of a thread about something unrelated!

Notellinganyone · 20/04/2024 12:45

We have ‘the futile’. It’s the utility room which became the futility room and was then sorted. We also have a tiny box room with a desk and computer. My DS called it ‘The ICT suite’!

JanuaryBirthdays · 20/04/2024 13:08

We have 'The Palm Tree'
It's just a cupboard under the stairs with shelves we store food. We call it the pantry, kids misheard its name and called it that instead so it stuck.

candyisdandybutliquorisquicker · 20/04/2024 13:28

The "nook" - the back room which is full of bookcases and a comfy chair - and the "treehouse" which is the big room above our garage.

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