What's in your best room or 'special occasion' room?

I don't want to be rude or anything, but I think you should stop posting discussions under this topic if they have nothing to do with the Panathinaikos interest... It's just that it would be a pity for perfectly good discussions to be deleted for this reason. This discussion for example can easily be deleted if reported... And it's a pity... It's a pity for the idea you had of starting the discussion and a pity for the people that spend a bit of time responding it.

I justified it by mentioning football memorabilia in the introduction as obviously my son keeps his Panaithinaikos memorabilia in his best room, but i will be more careful in future stvasile, point taken.

I think a locked room full of money and porcelain objects counts indeed as a best room stvasile. Now I really thought that your family would have some icons, is that not the case?

Hi akuler I can understand that, best rooms tend to be stuffy old places anyway full of far too much gold which needs dusting all the time. But where do you keep your icons then? This is a serious question of course. And in your case where do you keep all your football momentoes, your poster of Panaithinaikos for example?

Thanks akuler, you just made me spill my hot coffee

I hide it under my bad. Keep it there until I need it. I do not have any poster on my wall because I do not like someone stare at me when I sleep.

Ah but I am her icon ;0) And no she doesn't let father sleep in there, he's persona non grata! Only I have special permission!

But he can hide in there when visitors arrive, this is beginning to sound like a very strange setup. I'm glad you are your Mum's icon, which bit of Greece did she originate from?

Hi wolfie, so mum's got her own special best room but lets others hang out in there when they are being good. Does she let your dad into sleep in there? I expect being English she doesn't have to many icons lying around, you should think about getting her one for her birthday, no best room is complete without an icon you know. I think it's amazingly generous for her to let anyone else at all in, every room in mine is invaded by my son whenever he feels like it, trailing piles of clutter behind

I have everything visible here in the main living part. I'll get some photos up as soon as I can find them. Down in the basement I have things like the suitcases and a put-up bed and stuff that I never need on a regular basis. My home is not typically Italian though. It is mixture but it is how I want it and I love it. I moved here three years ago and it is the first time I have really felt 'at home' in a long, long time.

It's nice to feel really at home somewhere and it's good that you have things as you want them. I can never understand these terribly neat as pin places without a single book in evidence, books are the heart of a home for me and lie on every surface here, plus my son has inherited the habit too so there's always masses of running round and trying to hide them quickly in cupboards whenever an estate agent shows up with only a moments notice.

Hi Mys, I read about those Italian best rooms which I believe are a bit on the gloomy side as so much furniture stands in front of the windows and barely enough room on the floor to put a foot down, no wonder they prefer to sit around outside. So do you keep your icons in the living room or store them in the basement. Around here the animals used to kept in the basement areas.

So you too do not retain a special room for your icons, this is a most strange habit I'm beginning to see. Do your pets welcome visitors or do they serve as useful deterrants for you, especailly as you appear to have no icons for your vistitors to admire.

icons go in the kitchen or bathroom, or shed. the pets like visitors, perhaps a little too much especially given what they are. by the way how many icons do you actually have? bet it's no more than one. or one and a half.

ooh, no disrespect to icons but there is not enough space in the best room for any of my collection

Hi dbu, like many of us here you don't have a separate room to store either your visitors or your icons in. What I don't understand though is why you don't just move all the cooking paraphenila into the hall room so that there would be room for you to sleep with your computer. Then also when you acquire your icons they could go in there with you as well.

Hey dbu, like your new avatar.

Because my Computer room is very near to the kitchen and living room is little far from the kitchen. So, only the cooking things are stored here. If guests come here, we have room in the upstairs in first floor. We can make use of it for visitors. I don't use that room. We don't maintain it properly. Only if visitors come, we clean that room properly and make ready for visitors to stay there.

No icons at all... I actually have a living room and a dining room that I don't use, although the kids use the dining room for homework. I'd rather have another bedroom...

Hi dawnald, you actually have a real live hardly used best roomDo you have many icons in there?

Hi Opal, perish the thought, I don't have one of those best rooms and woudn't want to but am used to them. Many people in the UK of the older generation used to keep a best room, sometimes called a parlour, which they only used on Sundays and for visitors and was invariably formal and stuffy. I'm not at all stuffy around here but I do not encourage unannounced visitors, but most people here meet up at a cafenion anyway rather than at one anothers homes. I'd be mortified if someone just dropped in right at this moment, the kitchen area is full of unwashed dishes as the water went off about 3 hours ago and I'm hanging round in my underwear due to humidity, with messy hair, dying for another shower. As for your carpeting who needs it, I have not a single one. The house is tiled. You should never be embarrased by your home, people come to see you not your housekeeping abilities.

Hi uday, it seems that where people do have a visiting room as such they are not exactly welcoming to either visitors or the people who have them, but appear most handy in keeping visitors out of favourite rooms, such as in your case the bedroom. It's good that you have a place especially to go and think in so I hope you continue to enjoy the freedom of your room.

Hi iamsolucky, smiling indeed. So visitors and clutter aren't allowed in your best room and butterflies and snow flakes take precedence over icons. Bedrooms should indeed be places for relaxation, I've actually taken to mine for the last several weeks as it is the only room in the house where a slight breeaze sometimes enters though it refuses to do so at the moment.

Hi Malpoa, I rather suspected with you that your best visiting area might not be your actual favourite room but rather as you say a public showcase for those many vistitors you need to constantly prepare food for. I'm glad that you have your own best room away from all that where you can keep your more personal things well out of display.

Hi moneymakingtoday, I much prefer the word sala to living room. I don't believe that many these days can afford to keep a separate unused room for all their best things to be dispalyed in and when I have seen them they are often too formal and cold and make one want to go and sit in the kitchen. Very glad to hear that you get to enjoy the privacy of your bedroom so much.