Living room, sitting room, lounge or …

[NowNumber5]

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.

I call it living room, dh calls it lounge. It's right up there with what the thermostat should be set at in our unresolved conflicts.

Sitting room, SE. My DM would have had a pink fit if we’d ever called it the lounge.

😂😂

Front room. Always. Regardless of it’s position

Front room. It was front room in my childhood (originally London but have lived in East Sussex for 30 years ish. DH calls it the living room (he’s posher than me by a long way!)

I have a living room and a sitting room. Same as we had growing up.

Living room. Growing up we had two. The one we used all the time was the living room, and the grownup one we were only allowed in for piano practice was the drawing room. Ironically, it was the drawing room one of the cats liked to do a sneaky poo in.

Sitting room.

The Lounge Room.

The sitting room. My husband occasionally reverts to his roots and calls it the drawing room; I have been known to call it the colouring in room.

Lancashire
Front Room

Living room. South West. Going on 50. Working class.

Also used to call "dinner" "tea". But got told off by my mum.

Like others who grew up in Yorkshire, we had "The Room". Mum and Dad are still there, albeit in a different house, and it's still sometimes "The Room", only now it might sometimes be the living room too. At home, I got fed up of the kids' cries of "but WHICH room" whenever telling them it was "in The Room" (they clearly couldn't hear the capital letters). So I gave up and now it's generally the living room.

Same here

Front room, even if it's at the back!

Most people I know call it a front room, but I call it living room.

DH says lounge, I say living room.

@ConsuelaHammock
“I have a living room and a sitting room. Same as we had growing up.”

What are the differences between them? Do you use both of them equally?

Loving all the Front but actually Back Rooms 😆

Front room and back room

when I was growing up it was living room and dining room

Livingroom (although it’s a livingroom/kitchen/diner) and sittingroom.

Same. Front room even though its at the back of the house

Drawing room.

Living room. Was sitting room growing up (SE). "Lounges are for airports and hotels." Can't remember who said that, but lounge sounds a bit Hyacinth Bucket. I agree that the kids say couch these days, we say sofa and my parents said settee.

@3peassuit Are you my sister? I think we’re the only two on this thread who called it a drawing room

We say living room but at home ( my mum's house) we say front room and the living room. My mum uses the front room for guests but the living room is a less formal room where we hang out.