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What do you call the main living space in your house?

152 replies

00100001 · 22/12/2022 22:14

The one where you might have comfy seating, the TV, the place the family gathers to relax etc.
And roughly where are you?

We use living room. Hertfordshire.

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Dachshund · 22/12/2022 22:28

Front room/living room interchangeably

Grew up oop North with Londoner parents

Baconand · 22/12/2022 22:28

Meant to add- my parents say Lounge (they are originally West Country but moved to
South East decades ago.

DH says Lounge is “common” 😂 but he is properly posh.

Daechwita · 22/12/2022 22:28

The living room.

East midlands.

Eixample · 22/12/2022 22:29

Isn’t it class based rather than being regional? Lounge was considered non-U, for example.

FrightfullyFreezy · 22/12/2022 22:30

We simply call it, "The room." West Yorkshire.

Vicliz24 · 22/12/2022 22:30

Another sitting room here E Midlands

DanseAvecLesLoups · 22/12/2022 22:31

East wing. Knightsbridge

teenagetantrums · 22/12/2022 22:31

Living room...the room you spend most time Living in.

Cas112 · 22/12/2022 22:31

Living room

Ackity · 22/12/2022 22:31

Lounge. South.

Cheerfulcharlie · 22/12/2022 22:32

I call it the lounge , DH calls it the Living Room. In the SE but I’m originally from the north, DH from south. Rightmove floorplan calls it the sitting room.

RewildingAmbridge · 22/12/2022 22:32

Living room, Essex. Grew up in East London, with Londoner parents, it was the front room then

Beebumble2 · 22/12/2022 22:33

Sitting room - grew up in London and have always called it the same, wherever I’ve lived.

Honeyroar · 22/12/2022 22:33

Sitting room or living room.

mdinbc · 22/12/2022 22:33

West coast Canada - living room.

Ackity · 22/12/2022 22:33

Actually I probably say living room about 50% of the time. So that or lounge.

AnaBannanna · 22/12/2022 22:33

The front room (because it's at the front),The living room/Lounge/Sitting room. All interchangeably. Was always the Sitting Room growing up and then a 'Morning Room' in my parents last house, as my Step father started mixing with the poshos in their new town and needed to pretend he was just as posh 😆

East mids/Staffordshire.

bridgetjonesmassivepants · 22/12/2022 22:34

Lounge. Northern. Have tried to call it the living room but it doesn't stick. I do also have a snug though so have one 'common' room and one 'pisher' room. Also think 'lounge' is more a working class term than 'living room'.

EducatingArti · 22/12/2022 22:35

FrightfullyFreezy · 22/12/2022 22:30

We simply call it, "The room." West Yorkshire.

My grandparents were from West Yorkshire and they also called it The Room.
To be fair, they did only have two downstairs rooms and the other one was the kitchen.

JustCakeInDrag · 22/12/2022 22:35

Living room. Midlands but grew up all over the country including NW and Home Counties. Lounges are for airports and hotels, not houses Grin

bridgetjonesmassivepants · 22/12/2022 22:35

Posher not pisher, why does autocorrect do that? Pisher isn't even a word...

Augend23 · 22/12/2022 22:36

Front room or sitting room here.

Augend23 · 22/12/2022 22:37

Oh and east Anglia but originally home counties and people still know I'm not fun round here even though I've been here since high school.

herbaltea21 · 22/12/2022 22:37

The front room ☺️
Northerner!

Notplayingball · 22/12/2022 22:38

Living room.