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.

Me too!

I never say sitting room but I use lounge and living room interchangeably

Living room now. Front room when I was growing up because there was a front and a back one.

Me: 40s, wc Londoner: Living Room
Ex: 40s, posho: Drawing room

Sitting room here.

Living room. My parents call it a lounge, and dh’s parents call it the back room, as opposed to the front room, both are living rooms but one is for ‘company’.

I didn’t even see the inside of that one until we’d been dating for a couple of years!

Sitting room. I’m from London.

My dad still lives in the house I grew up in, and he still calls our old playroom the playroom. I’m in my 50s.

The front room and the other front room. The other front room has ended up being more of an office and work/hobby space but we still have a TV and very small sofa in there.

We have a vestibule and a hall (different doors from the drive!)

We have a playroom and a drawing room. The playroom should probably renamed, sitting room I think.

Never a lounge - they’re for airports, or a living room - don’t know why!

Front room with a settee growing up in the North West.

Lounge with a sofa as an adult in the South East.

Front room.. but I grew up in a dodgy housing scheme in Scotland. 😁

We use the living room every day. It has an open fire and a back boiler which is lit every day when it gets cold. It’s very cosy. The sitting room is a more formal living room with double doors opening into the dining room and then out to the garden. It’s used when we have guests but my kids use it when they have friends over or if they want to be away from us. I’d like to get more bookcases and turn it into a library with one of those sliding ladders around the outside.

I'm really tempted to pretend I live in an enormous stately house and call the sitting room 'the pink room' and the (teenagers') playroom 'the green room'. Or make one 'the library' or 'the music room' (except only DD2 actually plays any instruments!). Or make the east facing room 'the morning room'.

Australian, 60, the lounge or sometimes lounge room in the past.

Our old house had a lounge-diner so for some reason we called it the living room. Now that we have separate rooms we call the one with the sofa in the lounge.