Primary bedroom (phrase) (RE agent, agent, housing, property)

[dontaskwhy]

I guess I won't be able to call it a bathroom if I don't have a tub and only a walk-in shower.

[2bindenver]

Ooh, let’s also investigate the living room. Was it named for the activity of? And while we are at it how about Dens?

Why do we call rooms without windows “windowless,” but not windowed rooms windowfull? English is a funny language.

Are garage doors really doors? They do not open like entry doors, bedroom doors, pantry or closet doors.

[otterhere]

Because a master in the bedroom connotes a slave in the bedroom?

Hearing the latest woke jargon is one of the major attractions of "House Hunters." It also irks me when they say secondary (instead of second) bedroom, natural lighting (instead of light), wood flooring (instead of floor), and call a big room with four walls" open concept."

Then there's the inevitable "we have to totally gut this" beautiful original vintage bathroom.

I'm convinced all of the "House Hunters" are actors anyway, at least lately, so it's also fun to discern generic California accents in recent relocators supposedly from Brookyn or Queens, for instance.

[dontaskwhy]

Originally Posted by 2bindenver

Ooh, let’s also investigate the living room.

Don't some folks have wakes, aka pre funeral, in the living room where the casket is temporarily displayed? Seems like a lost opportunity to rename that room.

[luv4horses]

My gripe was simply about feeling a necessity to change an established, meaningful term to something that offers no “improvement”.

Previously if in conversation you said “the master is upstairs” you saved yourself three syllables over “the primary bedroom is upstairs”.

But, I never considered it might have been done to avoid a lawsuit or something. Hmmm.

And the other examples folks mentioned fit the discussion too. Bathroom? Maybe it should be bathe room to include shower-no-bath. And den? Well we might get a bit rowdy like animals in there. And family room as an insult to people lliving alone? Well they can always call their house pets “family”.

[WorldKlas]

Originally Posted by dontaskwhy

I guess I won't be able to call it a bathroom if I don't have a tub and only a walk-in shower.

Washroom is common term in UK

[WorldKlas]

Originally Posted by luv4horses

My gripe was simply about feeling a necessity to change an established, meaningful term to something that offers no “improvement”.

Previously if in conversation you said “the master is upstairs” you saved yourself three syllables over “the primary bedroom is upstairs”.

But, I never considered it might have been done to avoid a lawsuit or something. Hmmm.

And the other examples folks mentioned fit the discussion too. Bathroom? Maybe it should be bathe room to include shower-no-bath. And den? Well we might get a bit rowdy like animals in there. And family room as an insult to people lliving alone? Well they can always call their house pets “family”.

Soon it will be:

Washroom
Gathering room
And formal livingroom will be “front room”

[luv4horses]

Originally Posted by WorldKlas

Soon it will be:

Washroom
Gathering room
And formal livingroom will be “front room”

And what about the “parlor” which in the old days was the room off the front porch where the formal encounters took place. The livingroom was more casual, like today. Parlor wasn’t renamed, it just disappeared.

[Jessie Mitchell]

Every now and then some minor change raises hackles. It's a good day when you can look at the dust-up and think, "I truly don't care."

Like, really, is this a thing?

[gentlearts]

Originally Posted by WorldKlas

Washroom is common term in UK

And Canada.
Actually, they called it “the toilet” when I was in England.

As for the master bedroom thing… that’s what I’m calling it, still, and always will.