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Question for Architects and Designers: What to Rename the Master Bedroom?
"Bedroom XL," anyone?
It seems likely that the term "Master Bedroom" will eventually be phased out completely, for its obvious connotations. The Department of Housing and Urban Development had been trying to jettison it since the '90s, according to Yo Chicago, and by 2013 the Washington Business Journal found that 6 out of 10 area homebuilders had stopped using the term. More recently, Click2Houston noted that the Houston Association of Realtors had axed it from the lexicon.
Good riddance to the term, but the question for architects/designers is, what to put in its place? "Primary Bedroom," "Owner's Bedroom" and "Main Bedroom" all sound kind of clunky to me, and are likely too clinical for realtors who prefer flowery language (like "Breakfast Nook"). But I have to admit I don't have any better suggestions:
- Person Who Can Ground You's Bedroom
- Mortgage Payer's Bedroom
- Chief Rent Generator's Bedroom
- More Important Roommate's Bedroom
- Biggie Bedroom
- The Only Good Bedroom
- Bedroom XL
- Bedroom No. 1
I'm hoping one of you can do better.
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The software development community is having an analogous conversation right now. The by-far dominant version control software, git, has long named the default code branch ‘master’. One of the best alternative suggestions I’ve seen so far is simply ‘main’, which I think works well here as “Main Bedroom”. It’s unambiguous, doesn’t conflate architectural features such as an “en suite” bathroom with the role of the bedroom (not all such bedrooms have an en-suite bath). “Owner’s Bedroom” in the example floor plan is a terrible choice, as it names the /role of the space/ for /who owns the property/ which is outright wrong for anyone who rents and probably other cases. For many people, that creates the connotation of staying in someone else’s space, which is certainly not how people want to think about “home”.
I vote grand bedroom! We can pretend it's french and sophisticated.
Bedroom with attached bath.
Bedroom with the bath
Boudoir
deluxe bedroom would be nice. Implies space as the largest space in the house.
Why not "Grand Bedroom"?
Why not "Grand Bedroom"?
Primary Bedroom
I seem to recall the term On-Suite being used in the UK. It implies nothing about household class and everything about the existence of a bathroom or accessory room as part of the bedroom. In this day and age when people build homes with multiple on-suite bedrooms then numbering would make sense to note which might be larger or intended for the primary user.
Shouldn‘t it just be „bedroom“? With all the other bedrooms called „guest room“ or „kids room“? This is how it‘s done in the German and Swedish language and everyone‘s happy