Tomorrow, Jen and I close on a new home – this home needs a name.
We’ve been toying with naming our final destination “The Keep” as a reference to both long-term possession and the strongest portion of a castle; built to protect. But… this house doesn’t quite feel like a Keep.
The new house is positioned on a very localized hill. It resides about 30 feet above all adjacent houses and, also unique amongst the neighbors, ours stands above the recorded 500yr flood record (though I question the source of such data).
As the house is expected to survive any flood, we were thinking of referencing Noah’s Ark. Conveniently, Ark is also defined as a repository for sacred items (i.e. Ark of the Covenant). We tried to identify the items most sacred to us and came up with one potential name:
The Ark of the Oven-Mitt.
AotOM.
Not bad.
Pond’s Edge
Piefall
Pond’s Edge is really pretty! And appropriate!
Piefall is a not only a cute reference but also, since the plot is kind of pie shaped and the land slopes, a good description!
It could also be The Knoll.
Thanks MomD! Plus it will look good on a granite slab in the front yard. You could even mount a sculpture of an ocelot on top of it.
I think you should live there a while first before naming it!