A “Texas room” is real estate talk for a “family room” or “game room,” or perhaps any room in the house that’s large.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/homegarden/homegarden.php?story=dispatch/2006/06/04/20060604-J5-00.html
Real-estate advertising has language all its own
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Michele Derus
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
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New terms are being born and bred in different parts of the country all the time, sometimes creating border-crossing problems.
Take the Florida room, for instance, which Seramur said is a phrase for “a very casual sunroom, bright and cheerful, generally with a lot of glass.”
The same type room in the Southwest is called an Arizona room, she said.
Nearer to the Pacific Ocean, “It is called a California room,” Berrier said. But in his home state, “Any big family room or game room is called a Texas room. Why they don’t all just call it family room, I don’t know.”
It might be the same reason that one man’s pond is another man’s tank.
“You’re looking for a place with a pond, like ducks are on? You won’t find it here,” Berrier said. “That’s because in Texas, it’s called a tank.”
http://blog.atih.com/archive/2006/07/06/3579.aspx
The hall emptied into the family room where I stopped and sighed. This was our “Texas Room” and where we spent most of our time.
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