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.

Yes a drawing room is where you go when Poirot gathers everyone for the big denouement.

Lounge, living room or front room. Whichever comes out of my mouth lol!

Sitting room. You can't call it a drawing room unless you have (at least) two rooms for sitting purposes.

The drawing room is IMO generally little used, has better furniture and no TV. I call our drawing room the front room because most of my friends have "lounges" and I don't want to sound overly posh.

Hate hate hate the word lounge. I think (snobby) it's NQOCD (not quite our class dear).

The living room. I'm from the west of Scotland so I reckon most people call it that where i am

Sitting room or living room depending on who I'm talking to.
Lounge is just awful and makes me think of 1980's, bulging, draylon sofas in hideous prints with twirly tassels on the bottom 😂

What's the actual point in having your better furniture in a little used room? That doesn't sound upper class, it just sounds lacking in common sense...

Lots of people have a family living room and a grown up living room, or variations on that theme, which can be eminently practical, but a little used room full of the better furniture is a storage unit ...

Living room because lounge makes me cringe and my parents would laugh at me if I called it a sitting room.

#britishproblems

Front room or lounge.

Used to be lounge. Then used lounge, living and front room interchangeably. Now we have a sung and a family room! Resisted these names as made me feel a bit pretentious but the names do sort of fit the rooms.

living room or TV room (which distinguishes it from the PC room...)

at my mum and dad's we use front room/back room (they have two living rooms)

"Better" furniture in the sense that the sofa in the front room is not for jumping on, the pillows are not for flinging on the floor and there are some nice frames photos that might get broken. Grown up sitting room is an alternative description if you prefer.

sitting room.

Living room.

Front room - which massively confused our German/French/Greek helpers when we moved house! (we live abroad so have a mixture of friends)

I'd never really thought about it before and it made me see the ridiculousness of it. I ended up explaining that about 80% of British houses have the exact same layout with the main daytime/evening room at the front of the house and a room often used as a dining room/study/playroom at the back if not simply the kitchen.

Our current front room isn't actually at the front.

Living room.

I'm no stranger to lounge though.

Never any of the other names.

Always been front room for us, although the house I am now living in is the only house where the room is actually at the front, the rest were at the back lol

I used to call it the front room but my husband isn't from the UK and it got confusing as our living room is now at the back of the house. Living room now

I am at the amount of front rooms that are at the back of the house.

I’ve got 2 ‘living’ rooms that I call the front room and the back room.

Living Room. I'm often found there in my Lounging Pyjamas

Sitting or living room. I'd never heard of a lounge in a house until I was old enough to interact with estate agents. It vaguely irritates me in the same way referring to a house as a property does.

Like many American houses, our house has a "living room" (more formal and no TV) and a "family room" (identified mainly by being where the TV is and closest to, or actually being part of, the kitchen). We spend most of our time in the family room, even when not watching TV.

Living room or front room.

Lounge as that's what my parents called it and I'm not going to change what I call it to be more classy or whatever.
In Finnish it's olohuone which directly translates as living room so I guess I call it living room sometimes, just not when I'm speaking English.
We have a second reception room but I call it the study as that's where the computer is, definitely couldn't get away with calling it the drawing room as it has the most jumped on sofa there is.