Those famous houses have names. "Falling Water." "The White House." "Sion House." "Hardwick Hall" ("more glass than wall"). And the famous fictional houses do too. "Greenbriar." "Green Gables." "Tara." Have you ever noticed that second homes, especially in the mountains, often have names - something like "Deacon's Rest," or "Gates' Getaway"?
I propose that you name your house, too. Why should Other People have all the fun that comes from eccentricity and/or pretension? After all, a Crown Victoria is really a taxi cab/cop car/little old lady's car, but Ford sees nothing wrong with giving it such a high falutin' name. Why shouldn't you give your house a name, whether it's fairly modest, like "Jay Bird," or extravagant, like "Buena Vista"? What, you're house isn't big enough to have it's own name? Nonsense! "Deacon's Rest" (if it exists) is just a little cabin in the mountains. Your house is only a ranch style 3 bedroom 2 bath spec house? So what? Give it a name. And not "(Your Name Here)'s House." No, that won't do at all. Name it "The Silk Tree." Or "The Armory." Or "Blue Belle." Whatever. Make up a nice little sign for it, like those people in the mountains, or in Carmel-By-The-Sea, do. Or even better, get a sign made up by one of those mail order companies; a nice bronze plaque.
When you have your house named, you can work up some nice stationary for it:
Mervel House
2154 Elm Street
Springfield, Ohio (never use OH for this!) 23456 (or whatever an Ohio Zip Code might be)Why should Those People (you know, the people with named houses) have all that fun? The ONLY thing keeping you from having a named house (assuming you do own a house, of course) is that you haven't named it yet. So name it! And even if you only rent, name that house anyway. The owner can always change it if he wants to. It isn't official or anything, you know... Unfortunately, if you live in an apartment, this plan really won't work. And besides, the apartment complex probably already has a name.
Back to my home place.