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Name for our house: an ideas?

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  • 19-06-2006 3:55pm
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    Weeshie
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭


    Hi everyone,
    We've recently been granted planning permission and hope to start building in the next few months. I've been searching the web for some nice ideas on a name for the house, but most are American and not very suited to here. The house will be in the country and is a 4-bed storey and a half, with cut stone. Any suggestions? I'm not really into Dunroamin, Hill View etc.......:confused:


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    Sponge Bob
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    spot, as in "spot the house" .


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    NewFrockTuesday
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    Ard Aobhinn.
    Nice. :)


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    Heinrich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Heinrich


    *tongue-in-cheek*
    1. Chez nous
    2. La casa
    3. Bellevue
    4. Bellavista
    5. The Haven


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    dahamsta
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    I'd suggest Weeshie, but the neighbours might think you're into golden showers or summat...

    The name of your house should be personal, like the name of your children or pets; or your car if you're into that sort of thing (mine's called Otto). A lot of people choose a place that they love(d): where they went on their honeymoon, or on holidays as kids, etc.

    adam


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    PRman
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    Adam is a nice name..


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    Weeshie
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    Thanks everyone for all these suggestions. But like you say, it has to actually "mean" something to us - I don't want something generic that could apply to anyone or any house. My friend and her partner recently named their house which is on a lovely high site looking down over the town - "Whistletop House" - needless to say it gets a tad blustery up there at times! Another name I saw recently and I thought it was so lovely - "Le Chéile" - awwwww...:) (for our international friends, that's Irish for "together". Keep 'em coming..............


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    dahamsta
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    How do you expect anonymous internet users to come up with something that means something to you?


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    Sponge Bob
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    like as in the word "Tarmac" means something to you Ken but not to me, obviously .


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    Sleipnir
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    "Temple of Doom"


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    spurious
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    Look at the names of the townlands around you.
    Ireland has thousands of beautiful placenames - use one of them.


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    SouperComputer
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    GDL House (Global Domination Location)


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    Lex_Diamonds
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    Excalibur Cottage


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Sponge Bob wrote:
    like as in the word "Tarmac" means something to you Ken but not to me, obviously .
    You lost me there Bob.


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    Sponge Bob
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    TarmacAdam


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    dahamsta
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    Awful. See, it was so bad I didn't get it.


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    Sponge Bob
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    My Gaff is called "The Abyss" because it is so dark in there even at this time of year and because Mrs Sponge runs things shipshape like a Mother Superior or 'Abbess' .

    Thus are the house and its leading denizen synonomically intertwined.

    Nobody who has ever been there ever had the cheek to actually ASK me why it was so named either :D


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    अधिनायक
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    Why don't you call your house 'Subsidy' in thanks to the people who chose to live in towns and villages and pay the same for their services as you will, despite the difference in cost of supply?


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    squire1
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    अधिनाय&#2325 wrote:
    Why don't you call your house 'Subsidy' in thanks to the people who chose to live in towns and villages and pay the same for their services as you will, despite the difference in cost of supply?

    Development Levy.


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