As I sit here this morning, watching the (hopefully) last hurrah of winter, and wondering where the car snow brush is, I've had an idea that could use some of your input.
I'm thinking that we should name our houses. That way when we go to rent it out we can say something like "Welcome to ________, your new home" or instead of saying "I have to go over to Russell St to fix something", we could use its name. So far I have a name I like for our rental house. It's 'Hilsyde'. It's obviously a play on the spelling of hillside, which is it's most prominent landscape feature.
So now I'm looking for a name for our house. Although we love our little house, it's inevitable that we will have to move. We never planned on being here for the long term, but we put too much of ourselves into it to make it easy to move. I'm finding it hard to come up with an interesting and appropriate name. We have lots of creative friends and relatives, so any suggestions out there? It's small, so 'Manor' or other grandiose style names wouldn't fit. Its most prominent feature is that it is a very sunny house, south facing and has lots of windows to let the light in, but Sunnyside wouldn't work for me because we already have a Hilsyde, and we want to keep thing different and unique as possible. It's all new inside, and we kept the idea of an executive suite in mind when we renovated, and it's not really a cottage feel to the house.
So put on your thinking caps, we're eagerly awaiting your ideas......
How about "The Nest"
ReplyDeletelots of light and happy times -> sunshine house
ReplyDeleteI will, of course, point you to this passage of Stephen Leacock's "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich," in which he describes the naming of a few houses...
ReplyDelete"It should be stated that the house was not called Castel Casteggio because the Newberry's were Italian: they were not; nor because they owned estates in Italy: they didn't; nor had travelled there: they hadn't. Indeed, for a time they had thought of giving it a Welsh name, or a Scotch. But the beautiful country residence of the Asterisk-Thomsons that stood close by in the same primeval country was already called Pennygw-rydd, and the woodland retreat of the Hyphen-Joneses just across the little lake was called Strathythan-na-Clee, and the charming chalet of the Wilson-Smiths was called Yodel-Dudel; so it seemed fairer to select an Italian name."
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ReplyDeleteHmm interesting range of responses so far.
ReplyDeleteNest? I get images of a mother 'nesting' her house, and that not quite the feeling here. If we could nest, we would probably stay.
Sunshine House? I like the light reference, but it's a little to folksy-artsy-craftsy. And there isn't any yelow paint to be seen anywhere in the house.
Adventures of the idle rich? Not very idle or rich, but working to get there. I like the Yodel-Dudel, but the first thing I though of was Apple-Strudel. But maybe that's just me.