House Names
I love the tradition of naming the family *cough* estate, as it 'twere.
My house was built in the fifties, three bedrooms and a bath and 1/2. NO WHOOP.
BUT I like pretending it's an English country cottage so I call it Hosa House as we've loads of hosta around (only thing that can really survive our absolutely horrid summers) - not that this has caught on, mind you, but it's fun to pretend. I have heard of one american house being called Loose Pilings - but I'm fairly certain a murder happened there and I can't compete with that.
what would you call your house if you have your druthers?
I've also thought of calling the place Brokedown Palace - but it's so far from a palace that it wouldn't even be ironic. :)
There's a cottage down the road that I used to daydream about when i was living at Mum's and looking for my own place, after the split with J. It's lovely. And it is called Freedom.
The Money Pit. Oh, that's been done. :)
The house where I grew up was called Kenmore.
Actually, I have been toying with the idea of naming our place.
It's on a hill, with a kinda-sorta nice view of the valley below, sort of a rural-ish spot in the middle of suburbia. I dunno. Maybe y'all can help me out with some ideas. We've got a barn, a few chickens, a lovely aboveground pool, and a bunch of trees (mostly ash and locust). Well, here it is. I took a couple photos just for this thread.
My great grandfather was the grandson of Robert Shaw of Terenure, which was an estate in Dublin. He is credited with founding the bank of Ireland among other things, and was one of those protestant family lines that were given a grant of land in Ireland for helping the King in some way. Anyway, my great grandfather's property in Foochow, China had a sign out front naming it Terenure. My grandparent did the same when they had a large home in Great Hallingbury in the UK and I have an uncle in Vancouver who has his small property named Terenure. I might do the same but my home owners association might not like it.
My in-laws sold their house in the Oakland hills and bought an old estate in northern Washington. 15 acres, evergreens, a stream, several ponds, vineyard, simply heavenly. The estate had a name when they bought it, Buitenzorg. It's Dutch for "A place beyond worries."
I've never seen a more aptly named place.
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Smooth,Zen and Chris You all have home names like you'd find in a book.
I don't have a name for mine but it is almost like a little cabin in the woods.
Most of the beach houses down in obx have names. They're fun to read and you start to remember the same ones year after year... If we had one maybe we'd name it At The Helm's. Or Carl.
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That's over the door to my office.
juni take the first two or three letters out of each of your names and see what you can make out of that. e.g. Juniper + George + Kate + Peter = Ju Ge Ka Pe ....Kapejuge or Jewpackage or.... ok maybe not
Zippy and Wolf got it, but I don't think Skysidhe did.
Arbeit Macht Frei is German for "Work will make you free"; it was the sign over the gate of Auschwitz concentration/extermination camp to help trick the victims into behaving.
Maybe Sky reads some pretty grim books.
Well Jerry Pournelle, writer and columnist, wrote from Chaos Manor. I always liked that so our family newsletters occasionally come from Muddle House. And I once used Lesser Grumblings for something else.
Place of unwashed dishes.
Place of unwashed dishes.
PLUDI - place of unwashed dishes...
Place of unwashed dishes.
PLUDI - place of unwashed dishes...
Stinkysinky
only thing that can really survive our absolutely horrid summers
We had a couple out-of-control hostas growing behind our house when we bought it. My experience was, you can't kill them if you try.
The only hard thing is training them to sick.
No, Slugs'll do it is the name of my house. :rolleyes:
Yeah, and "The only hard thing is training them to sick" is the name of my dog. Bite me.
is not dog name thread. Bite yourself, ya lazy lump.
I would, but the hard thing is training myself to sick.
19 minutes for that? You're sick alright.
Our place is called Lunalushede Covenstead, as Lunalushede is the name of our coven, and this is where it, well, steads.
I bet that's fun to tell cab drivers on your way home from a party.....
Place of unwashed dishes.
That's great!
I love it so much I need to steal it and say place where sticky rollers meets flying cat fir.
*musing*
I don't know. I've got a sticky roller in one hand and a cat brush in the other seems. They take over my bed, they try to trip me in the hall. * sigh *
In rural New England, a house is generally know by the name of the previous owner.
So Jones buys a house from Smith, and lives there for 50 years... it's still the Smith place. When he sells the house, it becomes the Jones place. Sounds strange, but you know what, it works. :lol:
OK, then I live in the Lykins place. Hm, something to think about.
Wouldn't it be more fitting to call it by the people who built it? There's a semi-romantic story around it; supposedly it was built by a hard-working Irish farmer by the name of Patrick (has a street nearby named after his brother) who couldn't read or write, but could build a house. And I gotta say, he sure built one heckuva house - nothing's plumb, but it's STRONG.
In rural New England, a house is generally know by the name of the previous owner.
I never realized it before, but you are absolutely right.