The Good Room.

kneemos · 20-12-2015 08:02PM #1

Does the "good room"still exist?The room that got used only occasionally for special visitors,or have they been turned into dining rooms that only get used occasionally for special visitors.

20-12-2015 08:03PM

I wouldn't think most new builds are big enough for a whole room to be allotted for occasional use.

Noodles81 · 20-12-2015 08:05PM

My parents still have their one. They are 70 mind. Only used at Christmas but it is beautiful.

osarusan · 20-12-2015 08:10PM

Yes, it's called the sitting room in my parents' case.

Best furniture in the house there, and a cabinet creaking with silver dishes and crystal plates and stuff.

We sit there maybe twice a year.

Dyr · 20-12-2015 08:10PM

Wherever there are spud gobbling muck savages there will always be a good room. Possibly stocked with christmas editions of the RTE guide and Ireland's own

Charlie19 · 20-12-2015 08:11PM

The Parlour.

Buona Fortuna · 20-12-2015 08:15PM

We live in my wife's grandparents old place. There was a good room. It was kept for when the priest visited.

He's not likely to visit us, so we turned it into a guest room

The Backwards Man · 20-12-2015 08:17PM

It's good to have a room

Noodles81 · 20-12-2015 08:17PM

Bambi wrote: »

Wherever there are spud gobbling muck savages there will always be a good room. Possibly stocked with christmas editions of the RTE guide and Ireland's own

3 cheers for the spud gobblers of Ireland!

You won't be getting into our good room Bambi. You can just stay out in the cold, haha!

kneemos · 20-12-2015 08:20PM

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

We live in my wife's grandparents old place. There was a good room. It was kept for when the priest visited.

He's not likely to visit us, so we turned it into a guest room

Do priests still do visits?

Buona Fortuna · 20-12-2015 08:23PM

kneemos wrote: »

Do priests still do visits?

I'm not really an expert

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 20-12-2015 08:27PM

Speaking as an aged spud gobbling muck savage, we did away with the good room many years ago and use it on a daily basis for reading and TV.

I'm not aware of any homes still with the good room but houses built in the countryside in the past 10 years are so big that all seem to have 'reception rooms' that aren't used at all.

Whitewinged · 20-12-2015 08:37PM

Yes my parents had a good room but it wasn't like a room where you couldn't go into in your shoes or anything. It was just another sitting room where the stereo was so it was more like the party room or if if friends were coming in, you would go in there.

That was in my parents old house which they moved from when I was 22, ten years ago. They don't have a good room in the newer one and I don't in my house but I plan to extend the kitchen and make an extra sitting room if I can in the future eventually, hopefully.

I really miss my parents original house, like the house itself. I passed by it a few months ago and felt a bit of sadness at the thought that I couldn't go into it.

Lights On · 20-12-2015 08:39PM

I have a room where I keep all my bdsm equipment and have mirrors on the ceiling, guess you could classify it as the good room.

mfceiling · 20-12-2015 08:47PM

Was up home at my parents house yesterday and today. Mam still has the "good" room. She also has a special lock on it to keep out my kids. I was looking for a parcel that was delivered to me and she says it's in the good room. I says grand I'll get it now. I went in and she followed me in...It's on the table there. I lifted it and within 2 seconds she was "right, out you go, there's nothing else in here that interests you"

I'm 41...

Witchie · 20-12-2015 08:48PM

We do but it is kinda the study too so is used occasionally for printing or I meet clients there occasionally.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 20-12-2015 08:56PM

Witchie wrote: »

We do but it is kinda the study too so is used occasionally for printing or I meet clients there occasionally.

I hope you're paying business rates on that room so.

daithi1970 · 20-12-2015 09:30PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Was up home at my parents house yesterday and today. Mam still has the "good" room. She also has a special lock on it to keep out my kids. I was looking for a parcel that was delivered to me and she says it's in the good room. I says grand I'll get it now. I went in and she followed me in...It's on the table there. I lifted it and within 2 seconds she was "right, out you go, there's nothing else in here that interests you"

I'm 41...

might i refer you to post #14? just sayin'..

Eugene Norman · 20-12-2015 09:31PM

Bjorn Wide Returnee wrote: »

Speaking as an aged spud gobbling muck savage, we did away with the good room many years ago and use it on a daily basis for reading and TV.

I'm not aware of any homes still with the good room but houses built in the countryside in the past 10 years are so big that all seem to have 'reception rooms' that aren't used at all.

A reception room predates the "good room". In big townhouses or country pads visitors were ushered into that room by the staff. ( I'm sure downton abbey has one on the TV show). It was a meeting room for temporary visitors - long term guests had the run of the place. Of course that made sense in big houses. In small houses with 3 up 3 down ( or 2 up 2 down) sacrificing a room, the biggest, for a yearly priest visit is madness.

And Irish people don't really house visit anyway.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 20-12-2015 09:53PM

Eugene Norman wrote: »

A reception room predates the "good room". In big townhouses or country pads visitors were ushered into that room by the staff. ( I'm sure downton abbey has one on the TV show). It was a meeting room for temporary visitors - long term guests had the run of the place. Of course that made sense in big houses. In small houses with 3 up 3 down ( or 2 up 2 down) sacrificing a room, the biggest, for a yearly priest visit is madness.

And Irish people don't really house visit anyway.

:rolleyes: I was using the term (in inverted commas) as applied by estate agents to describe what you and I call living rooms, sitting rooms etc.

I'm old enough to remember being in the reception room of the big house.

Fox_In_Socks · 20-12-2015 10:06PM

There was no good room in our family home. Mind you, there was no insulation, no heating other than a fire and no shower until the last 10 years, so I think slowly a good room is being worked up to gradually.

Fleawuss · 20-12-2015 10:10PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Was up home at my parents house yesterday and today. Mam still has the "good" room. She also has a special lock on it to keep out my kids. I was looking for a parcel that was delivered to me and she says it's in the good room. I says grand I'll get it now. I went in and she followed me in...It's on the table there. I lifted it and within 2 seconds she was "right, out you go, there's nothing else in here that interests you"

I'm 41...

Ha. You're not getting the good china! :pac:

timthumbni · 20-12-2015 10:29PM

Up here in Norn Iron we had a good room called the sitting room. Which was strange considering no one ever seemed to sit in it. Once a year on Xmas night they went into it. The rest of the time it was left for the ghosts and perhaps the crying chair. What a load of ****e.

Now I make a point of using all the rooms in the house. I actually urge my kids to use the sitting room as a lived in room is much better that a sterile unused room.

Sunnyisland · 20-12-2015 10:41PM

We had a parlour, as the family got older and bigger it was turned into a bedroom , my mothers sister still has her parlour and when you go into it when allowed its like stepping back in time.

Fr_Dougal · 20-12-2015 10:44PM

kneemos wrote: »

Do priests still do visits?

Yes. Especially if you've been mitching mass.

timthumbni · 20-12-2015 10:45PM

realies wrote: »

We had a parlour, as the family got older and bigger it was turned into a bedroom , my mothers sister still has her parlour and when you go into it when allowed its like stepping back in time.

Please don't tell me it's got a "crying chair"...... Every house just needs a crying chair, sitting there in the corner, out of place just waiting for a good oul cry.

lanos · 20-12-2015 11:05PM

Witchie wrote: »

We do but it is kinda the study too so is used occasionally for printing or I meet clients there occasionally.

Clients <snigger>

Graces7 · 21-12-2015 07:39AM

Was just telling family in Canada that my " good room" is all cleared and clean. This house has space and he added a modern extension, complete with en suite and a wide wide window.. So now that is my " good room." Cats and dogs are NOT ALLOWED and the only decent furniture in the house is in there. The beauty is that it has its own front door. So if anyone comes... only visitors so far have been the gardai when there was the vandalism. But it is all ready. Lit up for Christmas. On the other side of the kitchen there is the "spill room" where all my market stock lives in winter. Great house this!

Graces7 · 21-12-2015 07:42AM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Yes. Especially if you've been mitching mass.

Been here nearly 4 years and never to Mass in either town and no visit but then I am hard to find and Cathedral person anyways. Odd as Healy Rae was at the gate as soon as I moved in.. but he would never ever get past the gate let alone into the "good room"... I do have standards....;)

lanos · 21-12-2015 09:14AM

My good room can be used normally except
It has a very expensive light coloured carpet
Therefore
No pets
No kids wearing shoes
No food
No red wine
No guinness
No coca cola
No priests

Plenty of xbox allowed there

kfallon · 21-12-2015 09:24AM

Parents combined the good room (sitting room) with the Living Room a few years ago.....now we just have the 'good half'

The Good Room.

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