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What do you call the room you sit in?

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Banksy13 · 10/02/2019 14:50

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.

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Jsmith99 · 10/02/2019 20:52

Front room.

In my grandparents’ house, the siting room was kept ‘for best’. It had the nicest furniture and carpets but it was never used, not even on Christmas Day. The only time I ever remember seeing them use it was when the priest came to visit.

Giggorata · 11/02/2019 00:07

Study and sitting room. Oh, and the dirty dog room...

3catsandcounting · 11/02/2019 09:55

We have big lounge, little lounge and snug.
My grandparents and aunties and uncles were all verrry posh and always used 'lounge'. Living room and sitting room sound wrong to me; I mostly live and sit in my kitchen.

SusieQ5604 · 01/04/2019 03:36

Living room

CaitlinsYellowSocks · 01/04/2019 04:57

I was about to say "sitting room" because I instinctively know it's "correct", but I think we actually describe ours as a living room. That's what my family usually called it when I was growing up, though I think my parents also used "front room" and "back room" sometimes.

ILs are grander and have a drawing room (large, formal, only really used for parties), a study (small and semi-formal, not actually a study, more a grown-up sitting room) and a nursery (a family room with a TV - I think it used to be the playroom when the children were little).

shiveringtimber · 01/04/2019 05:24

Living room.

Hotterthanahotthing · 01/04/2019 05:36

Sitting room here.
Front rooms were the room you used for guests,always kept clean,tidy and child free.My grandparents even had baize to protect the table and antimacassars on the chairs.

sashh · 01/04/2019 06:00

ImportantWater

My carer calls it the front room but at my place it is at the back.

I'm OK with sitting room or lounge. One house we lived in when I was a child had two down stairs rooms so one was the front room, the other was the dining room, lounge or sitting room until my parents had an extension built so we now had three rooms, the new room was at the front and became the dining room.

To me a 'front room' is not one you use every day, it has the best furniture in it but is only used for important visitors.

If I win the lottery I've always said I'm having a house with a library, now it will have a morning room too, and I shall employ a housekeeper called 'Mrs Danvers', even if the housekeeper is a man, I shall pay them extra to use 'Mrs Danvers'

Theoldwoman · 01/04/2019 06:02

We sit in the lounge to watch telly/chat with friends/family. We eat in the dining room.

RiddleyW · 01/04/2019 06:13

My grandparents and aunties and uncles were all verrry posh and always used 'lounge

Are they English?

RiddleyW · 01/04/2019 06:16

Growing up we had a morning room and a sitting room.

We’ve just got living room so I suppose I’m coming down in the world!

Rockbird · 01/04/2019 07:12

Front room or living room interchangeably. When I was a kid we added in 'other room' but I don't really use that any more. Not often anyway.

devilchild · 01/04/2019 17:43

Either living room or front room. That's what we were brought up to use

FinallyFluid · 01/04/2019 17:50

Garden Room

PlatypusLeague · 26/04/2019 08:18

Sitting room

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