Living room, sitting room, lounge or …

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What do you call the room usually with the sofas and TV in, the communal family space?

I know we are going to have a few Reception Room 1s and Reception Room 2s, and this being MN, possibly a few Parlours and Drawing Rooms too 😂

But think your average 3/4 bed house, so downstairs you have a kitchen, a dining room and a …….?

Do you just call it whatever it was referred to as in your childhood?

Would love to know if there are regional and generational differences.

Living room, growing up it was the front room.
We have a dining room, living room and a morning room, I can't say the latter without cringing, but I don't know what else it is and that's how it was described when we bought the house.

Living room. My parents either call it the living room or front room (despite it being at the back).

We used to have a drawing room - some people have a sitting room which is another room aside from the drawing room. I no longer have 2 rooms so I call where we sit , our sitting room. Given house small - I think drawing room would sound a bit odd.

I do agree lounges sound like airports but horses for courses. I would not judge. My Great Aunty Mary had a back parlour and a front parlour. Both for sitting in but Front Parlour was for more special occasions 😀 She also had a huge kitchen and a proper pantry - I am more envious ( given my little house ) of the pantry rather than the front parlour

My parents are from London / Essex, we grew up calling it the front room, I still call it the front room.

West Midlands and living room.
Lounge is on my list of words I irrationally hate.

I have always known it as the Living Room or the Front Room.

When I was a kid, I lived in a farm house and we had a Front Room for daily use and a Sitting Room that was only for Special Occasions. It had the best furniture in and you were not allowed to sit there in your smelly work clothes. That was quite common to a lot of local farms.

It was the lounge for us growing up (north west) but we've also got a second room now which we call the family room as it's the hang out room for my girls and it has their gaming tech and the super gaming tv in it.

Parents had kids sitting room, drawing room and the hall. 'Twas a big arsed house. I have none of them!

Front room

I'm irish and a lot of people call it the front room. No idea why!

Sitting room 🛋

Front room

We had an extension, so have a separate lounge, then at the back of the house it’s an open kitchen, dining and seating area, always called family room.

Growing up it was the front room and it was hardly ever used except for when for people of extreme importance visited. We lived in the cosy back room which led down a step into the kitchen.

I still use the term front room. But the front room gets used all the time these days.

I sit on a settee in my sitting room but my husband sits on a sofa in the front or living room

We live in an old terraced house so have two reception rooms, the front room and the back room but we call the one at the back the dining room because that's what we use it for. Sometimes refer to the front room as the colouring in room (which I think came from an episode of Bottom). If we ever move to a house where this room is at the back, we'll probably still call it the front room as living room makes me cringe for some reason and I think of a lounge as a room in a pub

@seekerjj that sounds like the perfect arrangement 😁

The lounge, we also have a snug, study and playroom.

The snug, study and playroom is now redundant as they are teenagers but it will always be the playroom, all have TVs in now.

We sit on couches in the living room. My brother sits on sofas in his lounge.

My parents sat on Chesterfields in their living room. My Gran sat on her suite in the front room.

It's called the front in my family.

We had a lounge when I was growing up. I now have a living room.

Living room

Front room, regardless of it's positioning in the house. (Northerner)

Ours is front room - it is the only room with TV sofa etc but growing up we called it Front room as well. Husband calls it living room .

The living room.