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.

Living room. And growing up in the north of England, it was commonly called 'the house'. It sounds a bit strange to me now, I wonder if there are any other northerners who remember this?
Or was it just us?

Never lounge. It makes me inwardly cringe when I hear it.

Living room here but it’s the only non-bedroom at the moment. I might re-think after extension, who knows...

I grew up with a sitting room and a drawing room. My parents (well, mostly my mother) are posh. The sitting room was the room that the kids were allowed in, where we had our games and TV etc. The drawing room was an adult space, where they went with their friends. Not sure there was a discernible difference in furniture, it was all antique stuff.

We have two sitting rooms, which we describe by the colours they are decorated. Similarly, we have one which is for the kids and their Xbox, the other is for adults. Our lines aren't as rigid as my parents though; I have just been playing on the xbox and DS is now watching a film with DH.

I definitely have latent 'issues' around the use of these lounge/living room. I don't look down exactly, but I do think of them as more working class terminology. But, having grown up with a distorted view of normal about many, many things, I could very easily be wrong here

Lounge or living room - I'm aware of the class thing saying lounge as my brother in-law rolls his eyes if I say it but really doesn't bother me. I do try to say loo instead of toilet though around him!

I grew up in a very basic 2 up 2 down council house.
We sat in the front room so it was always "The front room" then when I got older and noticed some people were a bit 'posher' , I assumed they all called theirs their Living Room.
I had never really heard sitting room used, feels a bit Cluedo-esque! Imagine it's along side the billiards room

We have a drawing room and a sitting room ( sitting room has a TV and is has a relaxed atmosphere) drawing room is a panelled room used for pre dinner drinks usually

Lounge

We have a snug, a playroom and a living room.

However, I was brought up to call them a study, a morning room and a sitting room.

sayno Haha. I just love the way everything comes down to class. You can call rooms whatever you like in my mind. What I was trying to point out that it isn't probably the class or snobbish thing, just another thing for people to debate, most likely wrongly.

Sitting room, unless I want to hear the sound of my DF turning in his grave, in which case I say “lounge”. His response to hearing this word, and “toilet” for that matter, was always hilariously over the top, and accompanied by threats of being written out of his will.

Sitting room

Just say sitting room OP, you can't go wrong.

Living room is the family room (television, toys etc.). The library is the room with expensive furniture and lots of books, but we usually say 'the other living room' to friends because we don't want to sound pretentious.

Oh I'd love a morning room. I'd write my correspondance there, peruse the week's menus as supplied by Mrs Danvers, and try and find out more about my new husband's mysterious dead wife.

Living room

We have two sitting rooms, which we describe by the colours they are decorated.

I think you've just won the thread . Shall we sit in the blue room today?

Front room, even though it's at the back

I say living room. Husband says tv room

Loving this thread! DH says lounge, and I also irrationally hate it. I had no idea that it had connotations of airport lounge etc though, I was just being weird. I say front room or living room. I’m desperately trying to subtly drum those two into the DC!

Living room

@CountFosco (which is one of my favourite username's, by the way!). I have never won anything before. It was just the easiest way to differentiate them for young kids, and yes, one of them is blue. So DH is often heard saying 'shall I light the fire in the blue room'.

ChesterGreySideboard
Living room for me.
As a child we only had two rooms down stairs so it was called ‘the other room’, as in ‘dad isn’t in the kitchen so he must be in the other room’.

Oh we had the other room too! 1950s council house with a big square kitchen at the back & a through ‘other room’

Now live in a classic terrace with front room & back room. They’re roughly equal size (stairs run front to back), & back room has dining table, but in many houses here where stairs run side to side the front room is smaller & often has the table.

Sitting Room

@Bubastes

I think that’s exactly how a morning room should be used! As ours is full of chewed wax crayons and with enough wooden bricks to build the Great Wall of China scattered artfully over the floor I feel it would be a bit pretentious. Does get lovely morning sun though!