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

In my family it was always lounge, settee (l think this comes from the older word settle) and toilet. Occasionally we might say living room but lounge rules supreme here.

We had the front room and the living room. No one ever went in the front room, apart from my dad, who listened to music in there.

My nain had a parlour. It had little glass animals in a glass cabinet. The dog wasn't allowed in the parlour, but it wasn't posh. Not really sure what the point of it was.

Anything but lounge. It’s an Americanism, isn’t it?

I grew up in a house where the gentlemen would retire to the drawing room, the ladies to the parlour.

The sitting room was an extension of the bedroom for the lady of the house, so only for close family, not for guests.

Agree with other posters. It's a sitting room, airports have lounges.

You're not proper posh until you've got more than 1 room for sitting/living/lounging/withdrawing/parlouring in!
One writes from one's winter drawing room, adjacent to the dining parlour. The summer drawing room aligns with the flower room, conservatory, orangery, boot room, butler's pantry & housekeeper's closet.

We have three rooms you can go and sit in. We call them the family room, the nice room and the sun room. I feel they are all self explanatory descriptions.

Sitting room.
Hotels and airports have lounges!

Was always the front room growing up in West London... still call it that, or the living room.

Ooh. I grew up with sitting room. Definitely not lounge, v non U. However, we now have a big open plan room that we call the living room because we really do all live in it. And a smaller sitting room. This thread makes me want to call it the Snug, except it is all white and I feel a snug should be dark and panelled...

Just grateful for a thought that is not about Covid tbh

We eat tea at the dining table and say we'll 'retire to the smoking room' which is ridiculous on account of it's all one big room, though whisky is usually poured at that point

BIL (architect) put together plans for updating our house. We have 2 sitting rooms, he labelled them on the plans as sitting room and music room/library. I like the idea of having a library. Although having read this thread I'm tempted to call the east facing room the morning room.

I really hate 'snug', just be honest and call it the TV room. Suspect that will go the way of lounge.

Sitting room

Don’t they describe different rooms? We have a living room. We do most of our living in it, it has the sofas where we sit when we have friends over and it also contains the dining table. Sitting room sounds try-hard to me; though DP (from the USA) spent ages thinking people lived in bed-sits when they talked about their sitting room. We also have a lounge, which is the room we lounge in, and it has an enormous couch and an almost as enormous TV.

Anything involving a word with a French sounding ending is generally a bit of an aspirational working class affectation.... Non-U. Hyacinth Bucket!

Eg. Lounge (vs sitting or living room)
Toilet (vs loo)
Serviette (vs napkin)
Settee (vs sofa)

I grew up in a house where the gentlemen would retire to the drawing room, the ladies to the parlour.

I thought the drawing room was the room ladies 'withdrew' to after dinner while men stayed to discuss politics and smoke cigars.

@ParkheadParadise

Living room with the big light on.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 The big light! As a kid I thought only my Dad said the big light. If the big light was left on too long it was 'like Blackpool illuminations'

Living room or sitting room

Lounge for me
Toilet is a banned word in our house

Front room in our family

Front room or living room here. Used to call it a settee but tend to say sofa now. The toilet was called the loo, never the lav, that sounds very Enid Blyton.

I hate sitting room. My DH calls it that and I cringe every time. I prefer living room or lounge, not bothered by either.

Front room (mines) Living room (teenage kids)

simply to differentiate 🌺

As far as I know, the drawing room (room you withdraw to) would be where you go into a house with more than a number of reception room after dinner for more chat. That’s why it’s seen as more ‘posh’. My parents have a drawing room.

We do have a second reception room but it’s a snug so we use sitting room and snug as it’s the snug that doesn’t have a tv in it so we are more likely to go in there if we have guests.

Living room here, i also have a spare bedroom upstairs that has 2 bookcases in... you betcha we now call it "the library"

@NoIDontWatchLoveIsland

Anything involving a word with a French sounding ending is generally a bit of an aspirational working class affectation.... Non-U. Hyacinth Bucket!

Eg. Lounge (vs sitting or living room)
Toilet (vs loo)
Serviette (vs napkin)
Settee (vs sofa)

On this rationale, “loo” doesn’t make sense- it derives from the French “guardez l'eau” so how is it less affected and working class (apparently) than toilet?