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

Ok, no-one has yet mentioned the variation I grew up with. Not lounge, but lounge room. Seems quite distinctly different to me :)

I've also ended up being a "front room" person despite both our current and previous houses having one just front to back room that all the living is done in. My uber-logical children have on occasion asked me why I call it that ..... I'm not actually sure, but I think our lounge room at home also got called the front room at times because it was actually at the front of the house; and I can't call a room that has both dining table and sofa in it a lounge room! For some reason living room isn't a phrase that I seem to use.

My ideal house like many above has a few more reception rooms. Study and music room AND library would be nice. Current iteration is study and general purpose room, which has to serve as music room (just realising we've got 3 keyboard instruments in there at the moment which makes it sound an awful lot bigger than it actually is. One needs to be sold or donated, and another needs specialist repair advice after which it could be very useful, rather than something to put music on top of and spare instruments underneath!)

Tend to use living room for the every day room and sitting room for the room that tends to get used for when having guests. Lounge makes me think of a lounge bar where the women could have a drink.

Sitting room (not lounge)
Sofa (not settee)
Lavatory or loo (not toilet)

Sorry but posh people think the following in ascending poshness:

Lounge
Sitting room
Living room
Drawing room / parlour

Also in similar order:

Couch
Sofa

And
Toilet
Lavatory/Loo

My Ex MIL was quite posh and she had a parlour and a blue room.

Wow a lot of people apparently say sitting room except I don't know a single person that does lol. We've always said living room. Then I grew and decided lounge sounds so much nicer, so I would every now and then refer to it as the lounge, my entire family would look at me like I've lost the plot.
People these days do like to call it the family room, I haven't quite said it out loud yet, so we'll see how that one goes down

This is very outing but I grew up with “the pink room” [actual sitting room], “the yellow room” [dad’s sitting room] and “the sitting room-to-be”. The pink room was supposed to be mum’s sitting room but the sitting room-to-be failed to emerge from dilapidation in the 49 years my parents lived in the house.
I think lounge and living room are not posh.
I sit on a sofa in the sitting room. DH shares the sofa but in a lounge I think

Lord, I dunno! I teach living room as the translation, but use lounge at home!

When I was growing up was The Other Room.
We only had two rooms down stairs. The kitchen and the other room. Up stairs were bedrooms and the bathroom. No other names required.

Now in my house it’s the living room.

Sitting room, lounge is awful.

@MyNameForToday1980

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

////Runs for cover

What would one call the toilet?

We have a good room and a family room

Only DH and I frequent the good room

parlour has never been posh

Lounge makes me think of a lounge bar where the women could have a drink.

Me too. You've got the bar and you've got the lounge. Not sure I know anyone who refers to the room in which one parks one's arse to watch Netflix as a 'lounge'.

I remember my grandma's small terraced house, where the family lived in the back room, and kept the 'front place' (front room) for receiving visitors.

Living room or front room, hate lounge.

Parlours aren't posh! Nanny Ogg has a parlour!

When I was little we had the living room - not the kitchen, and not the room guests went into to play fiddles; it had the table and the wireless and the record-player but the piano and the settee were in the front room. (And the reel-to-reel tape recorder which only my dad ever touched.)

Then we moved to somewhere considerably bigger which had a separate dining room, so the room where we sat in the evenings and played games was the lounge. The piano - and the fiddle-playing - was still in the (connected by sliding doors) front room which was now called the front lounge , until it got moved into the Study to make way for the baby grand.

We did have napkins and go to the loo, though. Where do Nancy and Unity stand on laundry versus utility room?

I can understand someone calling it whatever they call it but why the judgement on what word other people use?

Some of you are common as muck but so long as you don't call it a Lounge you reckon you can lord it over someone else. Totally without class in my opinion.

And I don't call it a lounge, just before you jump on that, I think I might from now on though.

Sitting room.

My DM would have had a fit if we’d ever called it the lounge. Frightfully non-U, darling.

We say living room in my house. I always think that when someone says lounge, they're trying to be posh and failing. Sitting room or drawing room sound much higher class.

Sitting room.
As my mother would say "airports have lounges"....

Front room. London with Irish parents. Not sure if it's an Irish thing? As one pp said, I'd call it a front room even if it wasn't at the front of the house...

It’s front room for me.

Agreed. Living room or lounge has no place in polite society.

The informal room where we hangout with the kids and watch TV is the sitting room.

The room the kids hangout with their mates , play stations, tv etc is still called 'the playroom'. despite them being late teens/twenties.

The room with the really nice furniture, big fireplace, no TV (but not used at all at the moment) is the Drawing room. (Children were not allowed in there until at secondary school) used for post dinner party lounging around, big family gatherings , Christmas etc..
very formal room.

Front room
Maybe I’m just as common as shit
Oh well i will survive until I die

@merryhouse surely the U term must be scullery?

OP, lounge is most definitely not posh. Living room is neutral. Drawing room is posh.