do you have a room you call a "playroom" a spice rack OR a feature wall?

[MaureenCognito]

if so: you lose

My parents' house has a 'glory hole'. Well it used to, now it's just a cloakroom and downstairs loo.

*nostalgic for the glory (hole) days

Oh yes the oubliette

Clearing that out to move was fun

I have a pantry without shelfs, it's a very wasted pantry storing my mop collection ironing board buckets and brushes. old plant pots broken lamps and cardboard boxes

What's the difference between a pantry and a larder?

mefour nothing

None of those, I'm kind of sad about that

My father used to refer to the cupboard under the stairs as the "unpleasaunce"

I don't have any.

We painted the wall behind the sofa a contrasting colour (wall opposite the fireplace and alcoves) and I do inward smiling at anyone who says "you should have painted that wall instead" and pointing to the fireplace wall. I score 50 points if, when asked why, they answer "well, that's the fashion, isnt it?"

I don't have twiggy shite, but I do have a bowl on the coffee table with a candle and big round twiggy balls round it

Seeker, your Father could have done this to make the undersairs so much nicer!

A friend of mine had what we would call Student Corner. It was the little nook inbetween her kitchen and bathroom, and it had a bean bag in it, posters on the walls, a flag up, and one of those long dangly door curtain things in rainbow colours.

Wish I had a playroom. Might contain the mountains of plastic junk out of sight.

Or wait, did you mean playroom in the 50 shades sense??? If so, I still don't have one

My whole house is a glory hole!

Have sadly to admit to a boot room , which doubles as the library , and an annexe with the treadmill and office stuff of DH in . Have also sadly to admit to pantry where the offending spice rack resides . And worse still , when builders were doing the mains drainage installing this week, they got the spare concrete and joined all our random bits of existing concrete together , to make a huge fuck off patio, which DH insists on calling a terrace . I don't know if he's proposing a cocktail party next or what .

But at least I don't have a playroom !

When I lived in the UK I had:

entrance hall

boot room/gun room

library/morning room (that's what a poncey estate agent would call it but we just called it the study or the little sitting room.)

drawing room (and we really did call it that, to distinguish it from the....)

TV room

A pantry

A conservatory (the O word never entered my mind)

A utility room (although we would have been within our rights and technically correct to call it a scullery)

Back stairs (for the staff, darling)

attic (a proper one with stairs and windows, which also doubled as 'bedroom 7' and would have once been servant's quarters)

Outbuilidings assorted and various, including:

boilerhouse

woodshed

and the jewel in our crown was a crumbling, half derelict Coach House.

Ta-Da!

These days I live in a modern rented house but it has a maid's room with an actual maid in it, so I win.

Actually I probably lose, don't I? I have a gym and a pool as well. And a deep coloured feature wall.

OK, I definitely lose. I am the biggest loser.

We have a playroom but no spare bedroom. When we were planning/allocating bedrooms I realised we have overnight visitors for a total of about 4 weeks in 52. Seemed mad to have a proper bed in there when a sofa bed would be fine for guests. It's much bigger than the DSSs rooms but it seemed fairer to give them identical small bedrooms and have them share the biggest room as a playroom than give it to DSS1 (and have a small room we couldn't do much with).

It's a playroom for the whole family though - I have a gorgeous 1960s cocktail cabinet in there

I want that boudoir with the bed and eyeshadow upthread. And I'd also like a red painted library with book lined walls, a sofa and a log fire, with a view over snowy london streets and Rupert Campbell-Black skating past.

I dont have any of the OPs list though- presuming this is the new naff list?

We do have a terrace- and a basement- but it is being converted and will one day be a futilty room/office/granny annex.

What is a boot room?

I'd stab you all for a boot room and a library. In fact, I'd swap my kitchen - sans spice rack anyway - for them. S'not like I cook anyhow.

It's a room near the door (found in large, old country houses) where you put your muddy boots when you come in the house. Often next to, or combined with the gun room.

The boot room was my favourite room in the house - it was so useful. I never had school bags or coats or shoes luttering up my hall and I always had a place to keep things like umberellys and hats and the like.

And tennis racquets, and all that stuff. It was ace.

I have a playroom which sounds better than "Plastic Crap Room". Although now I think it needs to be rebranded as "XBox Room" and needs to be sound proofed so I can hear the sound of a room full of teen boys mining things via Kinect & XBox Live.

See, this is the real downside to being poor - all of our rooms are so fecking functional. We each sleep in a bedroom, sit in the sitting room, bath in the bathroom and cook (sadly) in the kitchen. No spares at all to give poncey names.
Perhaps I could name the stairs? The upwards vestibule? Or the garden - the open air orangery?

I have a lovely deep red feature wall in my lounge on the chimney breast. It suits the Victorian features of the room and it looks fab. i don't care if it's not de rigeur. It was before and it will be again you bunch of sobs yo fashion slaves!

I want a boot room. What I have instead is a corner of the kitchen in which shite is piled - really looks attractive, I can tell you.

I don't have a spice rack or playroom, but my kettle and toaster match. And they're sat next to each other in a "look at us - we match!" sort of way.

That would be snobs then.