Thursday, January 8, 2009

What is this room?

Woody's been doing some painting, and I took some photos to add to our "getting ready" album. When I tried to write captions to go with the photos, I realized we have a problem. This room
no longer has a name. It used to be my office, but I moved my office into my closet when we heard about the twins, so they would have more room to play (it was an amazing closet, but that's another story).

This room leads to the playroom on the right, and back past the bathroom and basement stairs into the kitchen on the left. It has a piano in it.

Woody has taken to calling it the mid-room, but I am picturing future Grade 1 conversations...
Max: How do you spell mid-room?
Teacher: You mean living room.
Max: No, MID-room
Teacher: Bedroom?
Max: No, MID-ROOOOM, MIID-ROOOOOM!! (Jumping up and down in frustration)
Teacher: There's no such thing as a mid-room (Makes note for referral to speech therapist and behaviour specialist)

Piano room seems obvious but somehow a little pretentious. Besides, what if we don't have a piano forever?

This is not a trivial dilemma. Whatever name we decide in the next few days will attach and travel through the family for as long as we live here. I know because there is already a room in our house called the lobby, even though it is on the second floor.

Please help! All suggestions welcome...

5 comments:

Francesca said...

Well do you have a room that you call a family room?

Samantha said...

Good idea, but the playroom will need to be the family room later in life.

Francesca said...

Well maybe you can call it the family-play room and then remove the play later?....

S R Morrison said...

go with family room

Samantha said...

We already have a family room, the playroom, it is bigger with couches so it is the family room. This is more like an annex to the playroom (AKA family room), or a room that you walk through to get from the front of the house to the back.

Piano room it is. I guess a little pretension never hurt anyone.