Naming Apartments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I've been noticing from recent apartment postings here that it seems to be a custom in our little 'hood to give apartments and houses names. I think it's cute. So far I've seen mentioned (or been to) houses called Mean People, Blue House, Dangerhaus, The New Neighborhood, and a whole bunch of others. Where I live is The Treehouse.

What's yours?

:-)

Comments

[tikva.livejournal.com]

I have lived at the Rachelverse and Somewhere-Over-the-Bike-Path. I have had SOs at Continuum, Mystery House, and Apartment Not Found.

I'm now 500 miles away, and living at Raycho's-on-the-Pike. :)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

"Somewhere-Over-the-Bike-Path" is so funny!!

[tendertalons.livejournal.com]

we call ours "Casa Lupita" because it is above Tacos Lupita. closer to Porter, i know. but still! : )

[penghuin.livejournal.com]

My old place, Eden, is about five houses from there. I've still got friends up and down Porter St.

[androidqueen.livejournal.com]

vikash's apt in teele was castle greyskull. currently, we live at the moon.

[laura47.livejournal.com]

whereby "castle greyskull" she means "safety villa", archnemesis of Dangerhaus.

In the greater camberville area there's Malkovich, Boddy Mansion, Starbase Zero, Grey 17, Pleasant Forest of Pain. Dangerhaus was proceeded by Castlevania.

Geeky types do this everywhere, as witnessed by Rocket House in New Orleans and Disaster House in SF.

[bluepapercup]

Let's see -

I lived at Twinkie Towers for a while! Now I live in a big building, which doesn't lend itself to names very well.

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

We're the Peacock's Lair because gothic_peacock is our landlord.

:)

[ceo]

I was a co-founder of the long-defunct Mystic House in West Medord, near the river of the same name. We had a "name the house" contest at our housewarming party.

Our current place doesn't have a name, because we haven't come up with one we all like yet.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Our house's name (Treehouse) was given to us by a member of the New Neighborhood house, who couldn't stand to see a house not named!

Its the 3rd floor on a 3-family with lots or tall trees around, so it really does feel like a treehouse.

[csbermack.livejournal.com]

I have lived at Cabal, Cocytus, a Cave, Contingency, Th3^3, Malkovich.

The "C" theme is purely coincidence.

[gilana]

I haven't had a named house in a while. I think we used to name them when multiple people in the same crowd lived together, so instead of saying "I'm going over to Gun & Tim & Bill & Jen & Laurel's house" you could say "Chia House". Because of the ivy growing all over it. Anyway. I think the last named house I was in was the Litterbox, so-named for the 5 cats and 2 dogs that lived there.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Hmm, we'll have to give your house a name. I keep thinking of the luau... Get Lei'd House?

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

I used to live with my g-f, and there are three cats there, we call it the Cathouse.

My new place has no name, yet.

[ursamajor]

I've never lived in a named house, nor did I even know people my age who named their houses (like they do their cars and computers) until a couple of years ago. But my friends have lived in Dope, the Den of Naughty Intentions/Den of Wishful Thinking, and a couple of others that I'm blanking on right now.

I used to live in the Monterey area in California; lots of people named their houses there, particularly in Carmel/Pebble Beach/Pacific Grove. They'd have the little signs hanging out with "The Gables" or "Seacoast Ranch" or somesuch, and put it as part of their actual mailing address.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

On Nantucket I've seen a lot of that -- little signs with the house/cottage name and sometimes the family name.

[neitherday.livejournal.com]

I live in the house_of_clocks.

[visage.livejournal.com]

...and the webmistress for http://www.preserveusfromthehouseofclocks.com/ lives in Davis as well....

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Every house I've lived in since 1991 or so has been the current headquarters of the Laboratory For Social Experimentation (LSE for short). It's always been an appropriate name.

Since we moved into the house formerly known as Generic House a few years ago, we're informally the Generic LSE at the moment.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I'm in the House of Roses. Past and present friend houses include Freak House, CSCB, and House House Revolution.

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Let's see, I've had friends in Slack Manor, and, uh...ok, there were several, and I'm forgetting. But you're right, it is a cute tradition, and sadly one I've never participated in for my own abode. I think my place needs a name. Besides "the pit," which it currently is. ;)

[ludimagist.livejournal.com]

We are known both as "The House of Love" and "The Four Guys and a Lesbian Boxing Gym."

[penghuin.livejournal.com]

Have lived in The Edge, Eden, Brandy House, and currently live in Castle Anthrax. Have friends at Dangerhouse and Moose Casa.

[visage.livejournal.com]

My previous apartment was The Domain (The Range was out back).

The current one is Dovregubbens.

[gookalockgeek.livejournal.com]

I've never know anyone to name their house before I moved to Boston, but we call my current house Studio 64 due to the number of musicians that live there or visit often.

[glowroper.livejournal.com]

"Urban Bondage Farm." Although these days there is more sewing than bodnage happening, still.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

House of Sin, now directly across the street from Electric Light-Up Jesus (our name, not theirs. God knows what they call themselves)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Electric Light-Up Jesus House is is the funniest so far! I wish I had one in my yard, I really, really do. :-)

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

My current apartment is the first named apartment I've ever lived in. It's Chromatopia.

[ceo]

and if you've ever been there, you know why!

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Wherever I live is "Talonvaki." I used to have a sign...I should make a new one.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i live in "offhand manor". the name has followed me for a while.

[pyrric.livejournal.com]

I lived for a while in Piehaus, so named because one of our residents made the best apple pie EVER. (She runs a business now, Summer Street Pie (http://www.summerstreetpie.com/main.html), selling pies and other pastries.) I've also lived in the Non-Sequitur Theater (one roommate was prone to random exclaimations that rarely, if ever, related to the subject at hand).

Various friends have lived in Sinister House, House of Exile, Shell Beach, Folkvang, and others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

named households

[cos]

I have some friends who read this community who live at "Generic LSE" (one of whom posted about it), and some others who live at "synchronicity", and others who live at "Andor", who have not posted here yet. All three are around Davis Square.