House Names...

Dunroamin
Costabom

There`s a house not far from us named Thistledown Cottage, sounds very romantic, but it`s a tatty little old mid terraced on the main road! A bit further along the river bank is a bungalow called Rotorua, I often wonder if they have a NZ connection.

As you are ex-forces why not name it after the posting you were happiest?

I heard of someone who called the house Sycamoving - might be suitable for you

can you not use a feature of the house, I would call mine 'the pines' as its surrounded by dense leylandii, lol. A friend calls hers 'chimneys' for obvious reasons.
I haven't named my house as its ex council and no one else has named their house in my street.

My ex was always moaning about my lack of domestic skills so I always wanted to call our house The Hovel . His mum gave me a wall plaque once as a gift which said 'Bless This Mess'#thinktheyweretryingtotellmesomething

We once lived in a very old cottage by the sea in Devon ans it was called "Birds nest cottage" everyone always went ahhhhhh when they heard it's name

I think it was a character in a Flann O'Brien novel who was so proud of his huge lawn that, in Irish Gaelic, he named his house 'Big Lawn' - 'Lawn Mhor' pronounced 'mower' ...

My late uncle fought in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during the war. He was based in a lovely town called Kurunegala. This was the name he chose for his bungalow when he retired from the fire service.
The house we had before this one was called Château Roc. We didn't name it, the previous owners did. Their name was Rocca.

Still pondering ,thank you everyone x

Clever, Eleanorre!

We bought a house that had the number 13. I suggested calling it 'Firdene'.

House at end of our street was called Dunfermin - done farming in local dialect.

Not decided yet?

Thank you LuckyDucky

Hi ant, why not pick the name of the place you both loved, e.g. your place of choice for your honeymoon or another holiday destination?

Do you have a flowering plant/shrub/tree you both like? We bought this house named after a variety of shrub, of which t here were plenty.

Choose a place you both like/love, research it, in order to find its ancient name. Does that appeal?

I've seen houses and bungalows with Aussie town names. I've yet to see one called Uluru

Good luck.

There is a song "Mi casa, su casa" Perry Como sang it www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsy2TsQ9vns

Our house would be casa nostra.

I think the mafia called themselves "cosa nostra" - our thing.

sherish in films about the Mafia (or somewhere) I've heard "Mi casa, su casa" - my home is your home. So I always say that when my children want to borrow something or they ask permission to do something at ours. They then roll their eyes at me

Mi casa - means my house but I don't know the word for our.

When we bought this house I wanted to call it Banks Own, it`s on a riverbank, and the mortgage was from the bank, but hubby didn`t agree with me, in the end we just stuck to the number.

I saw the end house of a row in Lancashire called Thendun - 'the end one' for those from elsewhere.

Chez nous means our house, or our place. (French)
Nuestra Casa (Spanish.)
I quite like Chez Nous

Chez when ?

Mrsmop - a friend married a Vietnamese bride named Nu, he named their home Chez Nu, of course.
Rosemary married Mr White and they lived happily in White Rose Cottage and, of course, planted white roses!

Did you happen on it by chance? Then Serendipity might suit

What about Full Stop .