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Lounge or living room?

260 replies

Sunshineonarainydayy · 02/02/2021 20:44

Do you think one is more posh to say than the other?
If so,
YABU living room is more posh
YANBU lounge is more posh

OP posts:
BlueTimes · 02/02/2021 20:48

If you want to be posh, it’s the drawing room.

burritofan · 02/02/2021 20:49

Trickaloo, it’s actually sitting room.

Sbowiegirl · 02/02/2021 20:49

We call ours the living room when speaking. But lounge when writing. Weird

Bixs · 02/02/2021 20:49

Neither is posh at all.

dudsville · 02/02/2021 20:50

I've always wanted a "Den" personally.

littlesugarmonkey · 02/02/2021 20:50

We have a sitting room ... definitely not posh here

WhatWouldZenoDo · 02/02/2021 20:51

I just say sitting room which is what my parents say so therefore it seems like the NORMAL way of saying it.

Just say sitting room, you can't go wrong.

Ijustlikedthename · 02/02/2021 20:52

I was having this conversation with my husband the other day. I think lounge is posh! I have always said living room

WhatWouldZenoDo · 02/02/2021 20:52

@BlueTimes

If you want to be posh, it’s the drawing room.
Do you have to have more than one sitting room to call one the drawing room? Or just a dining room and a drawing room. Actually yes, that must be it. Jane Austen plots helped me figure this out!
HelloDulling · 02/02/2021 20:53

Sitting room. Lounge is very not-posh.

Justkeeprollingalong · 02/02/2021 20:54

We call it the front room, even in houses where the said room isn't in the front of the house! I think it's a North East thing.

Flavabobble · 02/02/2021 20:54

Livin' room.

BeautifulStar · 02/02/2021 20:55

Lounge is awful - Properly posh people would never say Lounge.

Atalune · 02/02/2021 20:57

Sitting room here. Front room sometimes as it’s at the front of the house.

We always called it the living room growing up though.

SilenceOfThePrams · 02/02/2021 20:58

Sitting room. Lounges are for airports.

GoryGilmore · 02/02/2021 20:59

The posh families I know have a more formal room that they call the sitting room and a cosier, more relaxed room that they call the snug.

mommybear1 · 02/02/2021 21:00

Living room or sitting room my Nanny used to tell us only pubs have lounges Grin

SingingWaffleDoggy · 02/02/2021 21:00

Sitting room here too. My friends at school used to say sitting room was posh though

MyNameForToday1980 · 02/02/2021 21:01

Lounges, like settees and toilets, are the domain of the working classes.

////Runs for cover

Ileflottante · 02/02/2021 21:01

If you’re posh, the only ‘lounge’ you’ll sit in will be at the airport.

Hyppogriff · 02/02/2021 21:01

Neither are posh. Sitting room is probs more proper but call it what you like! I’d prob be considered quite posh but I call it lounge and Proud!

natalienewname · 02/02/2021 21:02

Neither.

Snug and drawing room is posher

Jarstastic · 02/02/2021 21:02

Drawing room then sitting room.
Definitely not lounge!

PlanDeRaccordement · 02/02/2021 21:02

Both are wrong, cannot vote. I think posh is
-morning room
-sitting room
-drawing room
-great room (in great hall)
-after that you name the extra sitting rooms by features- ie garden room, Rose room, etc

flowerycurtain · 02/02/2021 21:05

We have one massive big room used for sitting in at our house. It gets called the following by various people:

Drawing room: Mother in Law and Mum
Sitting room: Me and husband
Big City Room: kids

Never lounge. I wonder at what point I will move from sitting room to drawing room and if that will be the sign of old age

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