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

Sitting room.

Settee is the older word to describe a sofa or couch. As I said earlier l think it comes from the even older word settle. Nothing pseudo-French or Hyacinth Bouquet about it. In fact, I think dear Hyacinth would have directed her victims into the sitting room to sit on her sofa “they have one just like it at Sandringham, you know” before being given tea from her Royal Doulton.

Someone once said that hotels and airports have lounges, not homes.

@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.

I do too! I'm in London. I'm not sure why we say that in my family, but my grandparents had a front and back room so maybe it's that?

Lounge is not posh. People that have lounges have couches.

I say living room or sitting room. My husband says lounge. It makes me cringe I feel like it's something people say to sound posh like hyacinth bucket!

@youngestisapsycho

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

Same in the NW, the front room. My late MIL in Yorkshire called it The Room, no-one ever used it except for funerals!

According to the estate agent from whom we bought our house we have a drawing room and a library.

We think we have a sitting room and a snug.

I think you find a lounge in a pub tbh so it's the living room for me.

We have a kitchen with two large sofas and a TV and that's where we spend most of our time, The old kitchen is called the snug, it has a wood burner and a TV. We have a study, my husband's domain with a wood burner and no TV. Then there's a massive room, we used to take the piss and call it the drawing room, never seriously, it's now been renamed by my grandson, it's the toy room because that's where all the toys are kept, so we all call it the toy room now.
I really couldn't take myself seriously if I referred to a room as the drawing room. Before the renovations we had a room that the dogs were allowed into and that was called the dogs sitting room.

We have a sitting room (sometimes referred to as the living room), dining room and a morning room, it makes my working class roots cringe saying it, but I don't know what else it is, it's how the previous owner and property listing described our, and it gets lovely morning sun. I just don't really talk about it.....
Growing up we had a front room, and the big light! (turn the big light on it's getting dark)

@ParkheadParadise

Living room with the big light on.

Are you in the NW? Until Peter Kay made a joke of 'the big light' it had always seemed very normal to me, it's a bigger light than lamps, wall-lights etc.. Maybe the reason I've never found him funny, things he says seem to be so normal.

Oh my word! This is insane, honestly. Seriously, EVERYTHING is divided and tucked into neat little boxes in the class system, except no one really agrees on what goes in which box. Worse is that some people are actually serious about such things 🤣

If you call it a living room/lounge/drawing room or a toilet/bathroom/restroom/loo, it's all still the same thing you'd be doing in there. It doesn't go from plain to gold-plated and vice versa because of what you call it. Lol

Sitting room, neither of the other options are correct.

Living room, breakfast room, kitchen, outhouse, dining room, hall, landing, bathroom, bedrooms, box room, attic!

@Ileflottante

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

And the 1st Class lounge too if you're really posh, or someone else is paying.

@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.

Nope, I'm a Southerner and it's the front room, even with multiple reception rooms!

I sometimes say lounge, sometimes living room with no rhyme or reason as to when I use each.

@hansgrueber I grew up in East London (before gentrification) and we always called it the big light and so did all of my friends and their families!

@ElizaLaLa

Lounge is not posh. People that have lounges have couches.

Nope. Lounge and settee here.

Two words used by my parents and both sets of grandparents. I would say I come from a middle-class family.

Lounge, sitting room, living room, front room...none of these words are posh IMO. Drawing room is posh. My friends who say living room think lounge is posh.

I call it a sitting room (+ 1 pt) but when in said sitting room I sit on a couch (- 1pt).

All this U and Non-U stuff is ridiculous. You're Jennifer in a 3 bed semi in Swindon. You are not one of the Mitfords sitting in a freezing cold stately home thinking about your big pash on Hitler. And all the U-ing in the world won't change that.

I grew up with a sitting room. DH says lounge. We are in a stand off with our toddler trying to convert her to our name of choice! If we do say lounge we say it in Eddie from Bottom’s voice “the laaannngge!” If you’ve not seen that scene, watch it! Highlights the absurdity of this very matter of naming rooms depending on your class 😄

I don't think settee is posh either, again working class Eastend upbringing, everyone said front room, big light, settee (with a glottal stop rather than Ts naturally)

I don't make the rules!! Nancy Mitford does

All I know is my grandmother (and my father actually) are the very definition of Non U.

I have a front room
Growing up we had a sitting room
And my well off grandparents had a lounge
I sit on a recling chair but if necessary have a sofa.