What do you call the room you sit in?

[Banksy13]

So is it a sitting room, a lounge, a family room, a TV room, a front room, a drawing room?! I'm not from the UK originally and I guess this may be class related. My husband calls it the lounge so we go with that, my family back home call it a sitting room however.

Lounge - not sure why, probably because my mum does?!

Lounge and quite like it despite it obviously being terribly wrong to so many. It's still a definition in a dictionary, so I think it may just be acceptable. Some utter snobs on here.

Living room.

Oh I take that back - drawing room and parlour are not fine unless you're in a Jane Austen novel :o Parlour sounds like the place you milk cows to me :o or a funeral parlour... and sounds very odd used to refer to a room in a 21st century private house.

Wasn't the word parlour used purely to point out you had more than one reception room even in the 18th century? So it's always been a bit affected.

Lounge just makes me think of a pub with a bar bit and a ummm, lounge bit.

Sitting room

Sitting room.
But I often sit in the kitchen, particularly in winter, because it's warmer.

Living room. DH has a lounge though and i hate it!

Living room here too.
My mil says "back kitchen" which drives me bloody crazy, especially as our kitchen is in the front and she still says it!

Old farmhouse so we call them the front room and the other front room. Or the fridge, as the other one is so cold.

And I think of a lounge as somewhere you lounge around...and we were never allowed to do that as children, so we didn't have one!

Living room or front room.

Where I grew up 'front room's was what the 'lower class' people had. My dad had delusions of grandeur! We have a sitting room.

Living room, though we don't have a dining room - might use sitting room if we had both (I do realise that's weird!).

Rather posh friends of ours have a drawing room, but that's in addition to a kitchen/dining/family room (they have a large house, so it's a big room with a good amount of space for each of those functions). I still can't imagine using the term 'drawing room' even if we had a house as large as theirs!

Living room here although my ds calls it the toy room 🙄

Living Room.

Interesting - was wondering where "front room" sits in the class stakes!

My ILs say "lounge" and it's one of the few non-U words that really sets my teeth in edge (I am not posh)

Never thought of front room as a class thing. Mine is literally the front of the house. I also have a middle room aka computer room and a back room aka dining room I guess.

Living room for us too.

We always called in the lounge in my family.

Drawing room. [shimy]

This is all a class thing isn't it!

Growing up we had a lounge which is weird as the class list says they should call it something else
Our house DH called the lounge (my word) the front room

Then we had an extension and the name "big room" has stuck! The room that was the lounge / front room went out of action and was filled with crap but now we are sorting it out and will have to give it a name. We were thinking "morning room" (joking obv) as it gets the sun in the morning how's that on the poshness scale

Parlour.

Meant drawing room

So basically a living room is the largest room in thr house. It's where thr family congregate to do their. "Living"

A sitting room is a smaller room than the living room, and for, well, sitting.

So for example I say I have two living rooms. I don't, I have a living room and a sitting room. If you only have one, then it would be thr living room.

A drawing room is more formal and a different from for entertaining guests

A lounge is a public space, ie hotel bar, and again s is for waiting or guests etc, technically you can have a lounge in your house, I assume if you've a large house.

There is no class denominator in the terms, simply room definitions.