House Names...

A cottage up the road from me has had three different names over the years (1) Candyfloss (2) Chez Chaos and (3) Sea View (which as we many miles inland, makes me smile...a nice sense of humour)

The Borders/ Central Belt version is only slightly different. Great password though!!
"Awaanbileyerheid"

roses I thought that was genuine Gaelic at first.
Then I looked again

Our house is called 'l'Ancienne Cure' = the Old Vicarage- pretty obvious as it was one from 1587 until we bought it in 2008. It couldn't have any other name really.

Our house is called "Saffron Cottage" - no idea why, but we like it. There are two houses on the site of one previous, so we don't have a number, apparently the Post Office (or whoever) didn't want 39 and 39A.

As you finally feel settled,how about "The Settle" or The Settler's Rest?"

We are moving on Friday and are contemplating calling the new house FUJIMAR (f... you jack I'm alright)! If anyone asks about the name we will just tell them we like anything to do with Japan

Oh no! Rumbled!

Not 'Gie an boilyerhead' Alea? A popular Gaelic choice.

I was saddened to find out that my childhood home in Scotland which had always had a name way before my father bought it in in the 30's has lost the name off its front gate and been replaced with a number by the present owner.
Ah well, it has provided me with a fairly impenetrable but memorable password on a few occasions.

Our Cornish house ( years ago) was called Kel Gover ( hidden stream).

Living in Cornwall we get a fair few houses with Cornish names. There's an end of terrace in the next village called 'Chy Hager', which means 'Ugly House'! (It's not that bad LOL)
'Sea View' would be 'Gwel an Mor', one appropriate to our house would be 'An Dyji'...small house.

^ Nellie

not quiet got the same ring to it.

not exactly helpful?

Call it Nigel.
Or Dave.
Mine's called 3.

Ninathenana how about "sea wall view"?

I would want to call ours Estuary View. One small problem......there's a flippin great concrete sea defense blocking the view

I always think it is slightly pretentious to give a house a name if it has a number. We once bought a house with a name and a number and promptly dropped the name and took the nameplate down. If you live in rural area where houses do not have numbers, then obviously a name is necessary.

We used to have a house name, but after years of having to spell it regularly (and even then it was frequently misspelt, but fortunately the postie was good at working it out), it was quite a relief to move into a house with just a number!

Don't make the mistake of naming it after something that you're then stuck with. 'Green Gates' or 'Green Gables' are popular names, but I always think, what if you want to change the colour of the gates? . I once came across a house called 'The Red House' - all the doors and window frames were painted red. And that is the way they'll have to stay.
I cannot abide those dreadful gimmicky names like Dunroamin, Erzanmine, Costafortune and so on. We don't have a house name, but if we did it would be unpretentious, a name that meant something to us, or perhaps the name of a flower or tree that we have in our garden.

This house naming could range from being completely pretentious to totally naff.
By my front garden planting I could be pretentious and call my house "Corylous Grange." or Cottage (neither of which suits a close of 30 1980s houses.)

Or naff like a combination of shortened forenames like Casa DougAnn.

I would go with how the local houses are named or numbered. Something like Hazel Cottage does sound cosy.

I do like the idea of the Coronation street house being named "The Old Rectory".

Bella Pais = Beautiful Country

Beautiful peace = Bella paz (?)

What about Bella Pais which roughly translated is lovely peace.

I always remember Martin, Ever Decreasing Circles, lived at Brookes Mead.