Cottage Names: Ideas

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Names for a Beach House, Woods Cabin, Lake Cottage or Other Vacation Home

You want the perfect name for your vacation home. It isn't easy to find just the right phrase for a cottage or cabin that expresses your creativity and suits your family, their interests and activities. In addition, most people want the vacation home name to reflect the surroundings. Are there woods, a lake, the beach, mountains, a river or other natural attraction? Then you'll want the name of your retreat to include that feature.

If you're puzzling over what to name your special place, check out the resources I've gathered below. You'll love the cottage name generator tool and the sample names I've gathered. In addition, I've found resources for getting that unique name put on a sign for your vacation home.

I'll be at the cabin all weekend by MinnesotaMerch

Apply Brainstorming Techniques to Finding a Name for Your Cottage

Brainstorming Ideas
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Mix and Match Words to Make a Name for Your House

Choose a word from
section one and/or section two.
Combine it with a word
from section three.

Descriptive Words to Use in a Vacation Home Name

Section One

  • sunny
    bright
    summer
    shady
  • lazy
    relaxed
    restful
    peaceful
    tranquil
  • happy
    cheery
    heavenly
  • old
    ramshackle
    tumble-down
    vintage
    retro
    old-time
    ye olde
  • blue
    black
    dark
    light
    green
    white
    gray
    aqua

Find Words That Match Your Location

Section Two

  • woods
    lake
    beach
    river's edge
    shore
    seashore
    mountain
    hillside
    hilltop
  • oak
    aspen
    cedar
    pine
    maple
    oak
    hemlock
    white birch
  • moose
    bear
    lobster
    crab
    raccoon
    chipmunk
    squirrel
  • berry (blackberry, cranberry, gooseberry, blueberry, strawberry)
    acorn
    mossy
    pinecone
    leafy
    fern
  • owl
    egret
    loon
    chickadee
    eagle
    goose
    duck
    crane
    blue heron or heron
    seagull
  • creek
    lagoon
    estuary
    resaca
    rio
    agua
    pool
    pond
    lake
    puddle

Choose a Word That Fits Your Home Style

Section Three

  • cabin
    camp
    cottage
    house
    log cabin
    shack
    hut
    farm
    acres
    home
    castle
    palace
    mansion
  • retreat
    haven
    sanctuary
    respite
    refuge
    heaven
    delight
    utopia
    rest
  • cove
    river's edge
    by the sea
    hilltop
    hillside

Add Your Own Descriptive Words

These lists are just to get you started brainstorming. Play around with combinations of words until you hit one that sounds right for your weekend or summer home.

Welcome to the Beach - Personalized Sign

Once you choos a name for your vacation home, you'll want a sign to show it off and help visitors find it.

Welcome to the Beach-personalized

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Personalized Cabin Signs

These signs available from Amazon.
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More Personalized Signs for the Cottage or Cabin

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Combine Two Names to Make a Cottage Name

To get MOSS CREEK, the homeowners combined two last names Martin-Ross to get MOSS. The property had a creek, so it became MOSS CREEK.

This sign is carved from Kansas limestone.

House Signs to Personalize for a Beach House, Lake Home, Cottage or Cabin

Available from Amazon

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More Ideas for Naming a House

Check out the names of other homes in these directory

West Country Cottages Index - England
West Country Cottages Alphabetical Index Of Cottages.. Cottages In Devon, In New Forest and. Cornish Cottages.
Get lots of ideas from seeing what others have named their vacation homes.
Outer Banks Vacation Rentals Listed by Name
This page, although set up for people interested in booking a cottage, gives a wide range of seashore cottage names. Maybe one will inspire a name for your cottage.
Irish House Names
Many people have asked me for suggestions on Irish names for their houses. So, the last time he visited Ireland, he wrote down all of the names of the houses he happened to see.
Alphabetical List of Houses, Cottages and Terraces. Windsor 1898
Although the houses in Windsor now have numbers and street names, this wasn't so in the past, and all the houses and cottages had names. This is a historical list.
Country Cottages in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and throughout Great Britain
Browse this list of rental cottages in Great Britain to get ideas for your own cottage name.

More Ideas

Check out the cottage names and signs I gathered on a pinboard on Pinterest.

What Kind of House Are You Trying to Name?

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Personalized New Address Card

Put your information and your vacation home photo

Personalized Magnet for Your Beach Home

Once you decide on a name, you can get items like this

Enjoy Your Weekend or Summer Home

Pictures of Lake Houses to Inspire You

Courtesy of Flickr Photos

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  • gottaloveit May 26, 2012 @ 8:29 pm | delete
    Back to reread. I'm considering keeping my WV cabin and must come up with a name for it if I do.
  • Svetlana May 26, 2012 @ 5:35 pm | delete
    seadream of frog song house - can't seem to choose!
  • flipflopseason May 17, 2012 @ 7:01 am | delete
    We love to read all the names of the houses at the beach! My dream house will be called Squid Manor so all my Squid friends will have a home away from home to come write and rest and have fun!
  • RuralFloridaLiving May 14, 2012 @ 10:07 pm | delete
    What good ideas you have! I always get a brain freeze when trying to come up with a name. Thanks a lot, you've given some good advice.
  • dlcass May 7, 2012 @ 7:27 pm | delete
    We don't have a cottage, but we have a camper. We've been trying to think of names to put on a sign to hang on our camper. Lots of camping families do this. Your lens has given me some ideas. Thanks.
  • DebMartin May 4, 2012 @ 1:26 pm | delete
    This is a helpful lens. I would love to see what others have come up with. My business name is Portage and I have to portage to get to my camp. So I know the word Portage will be part of the name. I'm kind of stuck on the rest. d
  • RubyHRose May 4, 2012 @ 11:48 am | delete
    That is a great idea. Thanks for some good food for thought to help describe our happy new dream place.
  • celmara May 3, 2012 @ 4:28 pm | delete
    I love you technique of coming up with names
  • PapaKork Apr 29, 2012 @ 4:17 am | delete
    Wish I had something to name, but I maybe some day! Fun lens!
  • jseven Apr 19, 2012 @ 3:03 am | delete
    Very interesting and thought provoking lens about naming vacation spots.
  • MareeT Apr 17, 2012 @ 3:49 pm | delete
    Just thinking that it might be fun to name my house! Very nice and inspiring lens!
  • Tolovaj Apr 8, 2012 @ 10:36 am | delete
    Naming the cottage really adds something special to a place. I like idea of some sort of hideout...
  • Frischy Mar 17, 2012 @ 7:30 pm | delete
    I once lived in a cabin called "Intrepid."
  • favored1 Mar 13, 2012 @ 7:17 pm | delete
    Isn't it neat when people name their special places? It just makes the place more cozy I think. You gave a lot of good ways to combine words into names that I like.
  • Pinks Mar 11, 2012 @ 4:07 am | delete
    Freinds enjoy entertaining and called their house at the beach "Sipaway"
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