Naming your house

RoyMi6 · 6 Aug 2015 at 15:57

markweatherill said:
As I recall you can buy a Lairdship for added grandeur.

Lawl - were you looking over my shoulder at lunch?!

Anyway appears there's nothing stopping us calling it whatever we'd like.

In "good taste" though we're going to stick with the name the house was originally given and make sure to leave the number as visible (if not more) on the outside of the house.

I don't think we'll actually use it on anything but will look nice on the original wrought iron gate

We think it's pretty fitting of it's name "Arden House"

Ace Modder · 6 Aug 2015 at 16:06

To me it looks like a caravan has driven into the front of your house

Kemik · 6 Aug 2015 at 17:30

As someone who responds to emergency services calls please don't name your house. It's so difficult to find if we don't have access to the gridcode sat nav and is still difficult at night when we need to find the exact house.

Cosimo · 6 Aug 2015 at 17:33

Ace Modder said:
To me it looks like a caravan has driven into the front of your house

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'Caravan House' would have people wondering why.

danman2k · 9 Aug 2015 at 12:36

wrong post

please delete

Dr House · 9 Aug 2015 at 13:06

My house had a really pretentious (ending in penthouse) name so I changed it to the a number

SupermotoMX · 9 Aug 2015 at 14:15

if you do decide to name your house, please do all delivery drivers a massive favor and put the name on a sign by the road [pref bold simple style no fancy pictures or colors black and white is enough!] not a tiny black sign with black letters by your front door which is behind 4 hedges and a caravan,

and to think the people with the latter have the cheek to phone up and complain when a driver cannot find their house!

randal · 9 Aug 2015 at 14:22

I was going to call ours Gregory.

slick rick · 9 Aug 2015 at 15:31

There is a house across the road from me called 'High Gate House', it doesn't even have any ****ing gates!

JaffaJedi · 11 Aug 2015 at 20:25

Kemik said:
As someone who responds to emergency services calls please don't name your house. It's so difficult to find if we don't have access to the gridcode sat nav and is still difficult at night when we need to find the exact house.

That's me stuffed then. All the houses on my road don't have numbers, only names.
Mind you all deliveries find us

Steveocee · 11 Aug 2015 at 22:13

Genuinely not a lie, there is a house at the top of my street (3 bed semi) with a house name of "****em Hall" That's F double O k (not the really bad swear word)

I'm sure it's devaluing my house.....

***Mods I'm not dodging the swear filters, I'm sharing the name of the house at the top of my road.

Mr Joshua · 12 Aug 2015 at 00:08

JaffaJedi said:
That's me stuffed then. All the houses on my road don't have numbers, only names.
Mind you all deliveries find us

Why? He said it was difficult, not impossible.

Go for it OP but please remember to never refer to the house number for delivery instructions to couriers etc, you know, make it as difficult as possible for them to find you. For added trickiness, make sure there's also no numbers visible from the road without the aid of the hubble telescope, who cares if people think you're a chav.