About house names
Architecture comes in plain measured strokes, a roof "low, triangular, but one side is longer than the other" or a building "shaped like an L" with cloth sunscreens linking its wings. Roof, floor, and garden lines each stand alone, so combine three for a complete property or lift one when a scene only needs the house glimpsed from the road.
How house names are built
This describes a house rather than naming it. Six sentence templates cover the exterior and windows, the interior rooms, the building's shape, the second floor, the roof and chimney, and the surrounding grounds. Slots pull from banks such as 25 construction-material entries, 25 decoration entries, 20 roof-covering entries and 18 wall-shape phrases, so the materials, layout and roofline change with each roll.
Crowning the whole, the roof carries tapered to a soft conical crown, sheathed in wind-scoured slate. Paired stacks bracket a small attic light between them. Slatted vents beneath the eaves let the rafters breathe.
template: roof + chimney sentence + slots: roof shape + covering + chimneys + eaves detail
the roof shape and covering fix the house's silhouette from outside
On the ground its plan is bent into a wide L. The wings tilt toward one another over a slim flagged court.
template: shape sentence + slots: floorplan shape + extension detail
the shape slot gives the house a recognisable footprint
Climb the stair and the upper floor stands narrower than the floor beneath, sparing room for a deep balcony down one flank, and as a matter of taste it strays just a touch from the rooms below.
template: second-floor sentence + slots: relative size + balcony or gallery + styling
the second-floor line sets how the upper storey sits on the lower
Naming notes
Read in full it works through a house from outside to inside to roof to garden, so you get a coherent dwelling rather than disconnected features. The shape sentence (an L, fairly rounded) and the roof sentence let you fix a recognisable silhouette. Use it to detail a building on a town map, a home a party investigates, or a setting for fiction. Lift the exterior or roof sentence alone if you only need the outside view.
Questions about house names
- Does this generate house names or descriptions?
- Descriptions. Each pull details the house's exterior, rooms, shape, roof and grounds in sentences, not a name.
- How long is a full house description?
- Six sentences working from the exterior inward to the rooms, then up to the roof and out to the garden. Any single sentence, such as the roof or the shape line, can be used alone.
- Can I use this for a house in my game or story?
- Yes. Use it to describe a building a party investigates or to detail a home on a map. The shape and roof sentences let you fix a consistent silhouette for repeated visits.