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Building Our Custom Home |
| THE NAME GAME October 19 Update Biltmore. Rosecliff. Glen Manor, Agecroft Hall. Houses with names seem grand and romantic even if you have never seen them. Naming your home has gone out of fashion over the past 70 years or so but it was something that Athena and I thought would be fun to do for the new home we are building. The house certainly isn't grand or a mansion, but we aim to make it as romantic as is possible. We thought long and hard about a proper name. I thought that perhaps it should have "Rose" in the name somewhere. That is because I have plans on putting in a rose garden and my great-great Uncle and Aunt owned Rosecliff, the famous Newport mansion that they eventually donated to the Preservation Society (no, I didn't get a huge sum passed on to me). But, I decided that I might really stink at rose gardening and should I have awful roses the name would haunt me forever. And I didn't want my name on the house. To pretentious. And boring. I thought about names of places we had visited that would lend itself to a nice house name. Nothing really seemed to work for me. Until.
Athena and I were riding in the car on the way to visit the construction
and I was thinking out loud that we could use the children's names for
the house. So, Ashland Hall is the name for our soon to be new home. I think it has a nice romantic ring to it. Even if it isn't a mansion. ************** Time Lapse Photos of the Construction
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We could combine Ireland and Ashton and call it Ireton.
Athena quickly said, Ashland would be much better. I agreed.