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.

I say sitting room but my parents have a ‘lounge’ with the tv in which they use every day and a ‘drawing room’ which is very smart, has no tv and is only used for entertaining or at Christmas.

Lounge. Is it coz I is common?

Sitting room except at my ma’s house call it the living room. Not because she would have wanted that not sure why. We are originally American so wonder if living room is more common there ?? Actually the more I think about it the Mir I beer between sitting and living.
Should call mine the lying room as usually lying in sofa not sitting at all not even lounging.

Is it an old fashioned Northern thing to call it the room, the front room or the parlour? I ask because I have only ever heard them called that by older Northern folk or on vintage Coronation Street.

Lounge to me is either at an airport, or a 70's shag pile carpet, leather sofa, fibre optic lamps and smoked glass coffee table kind of place, or Abigail's Party.

I'm going to throw a spanner into the works now, and say we have a sitting room and a living kitchen. Anyone else with a living kitchen?

Front room or back room depending on where we sit.

I don't get the people sneering at lounge. My (generations back) middle class in laws call the main room in their house the lounge.

My middle class granny called it a lounge.

My working class relatives with two reception rooms would call one the kitchen and the other the parlour. The kitchen was the back kitchen.

I have a front room and a lounge!

Lounge here

Living room. The front room is a playroom.
In last house, big Victorian, we had front room, middle room, back room and kitchen. We lived in the kitchen!

Front room

It’s funny the whole sneering thing. I (hope I) don’t sneer but I had it drilled into me from a young age that lounge is the wrong word. Along with toilet and pardon and a whole host of other things that I’ve been told since childhood are wrong. I let my dc call the rooms and the loo what they like despite inwardly cringing as I know it’s completely illogical.

we have the living kitchen too, sofa and TV at one end, spend all week in there (dogs!) and we keep the "lounge" for weekends (child of the 70s)

I presume lounge came into fashion in the 1960s and it was perceived as sounding a bit more glam and aspirational than the traditional stuffy parlour.

Lounge, I'm sitting in it right now, I love my lounge as I can lounge around in it .

I call it the front room even though it’s at the back of the houseas that’s what our lounge was called when I was growing up. I call our actual front room the computer room.

Living room.

My Nan and grandad used to have a terrace house with a front room which they kept their best ornaments and chairs and was only used if the Queen visited or similar, then they had a living room which was the middle room.

I really wanted a posh front room when I grew up but everyone knocks them through nowadays (and I didn't buy a terrace).

Sitting room. Lounge is for estate agent descriptions on RightMove.

What's supposed to be posher? Living room, sitting room or front room?

I thought lounge was posh so clearly have no clue.

Living room here, maybe front room but never sitting room.

My granny had a parlour which was a dining room. She was far from posh mind.

Living room. Most of the time spent here, living

And I agree, never the lounge. Lounges are for hotels, airports and pubs, although less so in pubs these days.

Agreed

My parents always called the sitting room the Lounge - perhaps a 1950s thing?

Front room. It’s not actually in the front of the house though.

defectiveinspector I'm fairly certain that nobody who looks down on "lounge" would be taken aback that your middle class relatives use the term.

Living Room. DH calls it the lounge though, which I inwardly cringe at, not because I think it's especially common or anything, just that it's clearly the the wrong word.

We have two. Front lounge and middle lounge. Or grown up lounge and family room.

Will you walk into the parlour, said the spider to the fly....