Lounge or living room?

[Sunshineonarainydayy]

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

@WagnerTheWehrWolf wins!

We have always used the term Front room, even though our front room is actually at the back.
Most of my friends from my area use the same. I am wondering if it's because most people's 'front' rooms were their best rooms, no one entered, only for visitors or the priest, out came the best china. My Nans front room was sacred.
Just a name that stuck.

I am talking about many years ago.

We have a living room and a sitting room . I don’t like the word lounge !

@Eeeeeeeeeeeek

Sitting room TV room and laundry room As a by the by, I always thought serviettes were made from paper and napkins were made from linen or cloth?

There is a thing called a paper napkin. Why not call it that instead of “serviette”?

Lounge sounds awful. But living room isn't posh either.

@WildBactrian yes that is what we did! We had a Blue room and a Pink room. (plus kitchen/dining room/study etc)

What confuses DH and my DC is that my parents have redecorated several times but we still refer to the colours they were when we were children

I say living room.

Sitting on my sofa in the sitting room. Or living room.

Proper posh (smart) people have drawing rooms.

Airports have lounges.

My great-grandparents had a front parlour (sacrosanct) and back room (where everyone congregated) in their Victorian terraced house. Parlours aren't posh, they were the height of respectable working class. Oh to have the spare space now to have a parlour in our house!

I don’t think either one is posh, my ex use to call it the “front room” that use to drive me mad as it wasn’t at the front of the house I call it living room.

We also have a morning room and a games room but we only call them those for fun because we know it sounds wanky.

Yes Kottbullar, when we moved here, with its Drawing room, Dining Room, Estate Agent’s Library, and Conservatory we thought it was like the Cluedo board. So the spare room housing lots of extra pictures is known as The Gallery and the original servants’ bedroom accessed by an exterior staircase is always called The Ballroom.

I think the poshest thing you can do is to stop worrying about whether what you do or say is posh or not (because it is a sure sign that you are not...)

A lounge sounds quite seedy to me

@Justkeeprollingalong

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.

No, it’s pretty universal. I still say it in the Midlands and my London parents said it. It just comes from the layout of working class Victorian terraces, where the back room (kitchen) was the warm “working” room and the front room was the more formal, often unused room.

As my grandmother used to say
Lounges are in pubs not houses

In Yorkshire it is t'room
Estate agents say lounge
I say lounge, front room (although it isn't strictly a front room as it runs from front to back) or living room.

What is this obsession with being posh?

I say front room. When I was younger my parents had their lounge and we had our "TV room".

Properly posh in-laws once said to me “only airports have lounges”

@Thischarmlessgirl

Properly posh in-laws once said to me “only airports have lounges”

Your in-laws and approximately ten other posters on this thread.

@Tangledtresses

As my grandmother used to say Lounges are in pubs not houses

My Grandmother used to say this too

We've always had a sitting room, I suppose when the children leave home we'll have a sitting room and a drawing room as we'll reclaim the play room!

I was brought up with lounge but on reaching adulthood and realising how non-U that is I stopped immediately.

It’s sitting room and drawing room. Lounges are in hotels and airports.

We may only be Jennifers from Swindon, but it was the realisation that words like ‘lounge’, ‘serviette’ and ‘pardon’ were invented by the middle classes in a desperate and ill judged attempt to sound posh that put me off that language.

Real class has no need to advertise the fact.

I call it a sitting room.....

"The second largest reception room in the west wing" would be posh.

Sitting room.