One upmanship

Well we had a kitchen and a skullery. The ultimate in oneupmanship!

Exactly GJ. It's semi conservatory (ugh) with fifty/fifty glass and whinstone. Perfect when the sun's high and temperature low. Love it in there.

Feelingmyage55

When I went to bed last night the butler had warmed my side.

I do hope he got out of it before you got in! ?

When I was a child my granny had a small hallway at the back of her house that she called the back passage ?

When I went to bed last night the butler had warmed my side.

Kim19, I love sitooterie! I assume it’s where you sitoot.

The laboratory! How could I forget that

I don't know what we have behind the green baize door. The staff hate it when I interfere

we had a scullery.
i thought kitchens were in restaurants/hotels.
now people seem to want their home kitchens to look like laboratories. or worse.

We had a back kitchen... no front kitchen, though.

Some very funny (as in amusing) posts on here. Thanks OP for leading into these laugh out loud (as in LOL) moments. We can all do with a laugh now and then.

Is a sitooterie posh? I have one of them too! Just take these fineries so much for granted........

My granny had a breakfast room and a morning room AND an oak panelled room with the phone in!

FarNorth
Yes, it was only used for breakfast.

At our last house we had His and Hers flights of steps up from the pavement to the front door. (We had to build the second flight before removing the first one!) Is that Oneupmanship or Twoupmanship?

A tack room. No, not for sewing!

Callistemon we have a home cinema, a real tennis court, a library and a ballroom.

I forgot the front room and the parlour

Ha ha Megs my DH calls our sitting room the front room although it is at the back!

I know someone who has a conversation area/room.

Blossoming

Kim19

Think the only time I blotted my copybook was to admit we use the word lounge. Apparently either posh, pretensious or both. Oops! Ain't gonna change though..

We call it the drawing room

Don't you have a lounge and a sitting room and a drawing room and a television room then?
As well as an orangery?

Oh dear, poor you.

MerylStreep was it only used for breakfasting in?
I'd like to have a room specifically for breakfasting in and I'd certainly call it the breakfast room, if I had one.

(Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, btw)

My friend from Sheffield just calls it “the room”?‍♀️

Kim I call it the ‘front room’ although it’s at the back?

In my first house in the early 70s we had a breakfast room
I suppose that if I were to refer to my breakfast room now it would seem pretentious.
Looking back I don’t know what else it could be called because there was a dining room as well. Any ideas ?

marpau I actually have had a brain haemorrhage. It really isn’t something to brag about.