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

It depends on the particular function of said room doesn't it? Or depending whether it has several uses, in which case you can call it what you like 😂

DH (Midlands) says front room regardless of position, but I say living room despite being brought up to say lounge. I have no idea why I changed it though.
I was also brought up to say settee but now say sofa.
Upstairs we have a "bathroom" which contains a loo but the downstairs loo has been renamed "The Depository"

East end working class here. Front room wherever it may be situated. Lounge/sitting room is posh. Living room at a push

I call it a sitting room, but I don't have one. We have a television room and a drawing room (it's referred to as 'The Big Room' and it never gets used. Probably because it doesn't have a television).

Oh gosh I'm mortified.
I call my lovely lounge the front room.
I only ever sit in it therefore shall I call it the sitting room.
I watch TV in there.

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@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*

Settee is just as bad as couch.

We don’t lounge, we sit. Sitting room or front room here.

None seem ‘posher’ than the other though.

I call it the sitting room and we have three sofas.

but, I am going to INSIST it is the Morning room when we get the EA round to sell, it's also dual aspect :o :o If they cannot put both on the schedule then I shall be most put out

the other room....which we call The Other Room can be promoted to the sitting room

I think living room is old fashioned. Lounge is modern (?American in origin) and quicker to say.

Living room implies you only have one room all of you can fit in together.

surely the U term must be scullery?

No, a utility room is where you wash your clothes (so laundry), a scullery is where the pots and pans and dishes are washed, it was the sink for the kitchen before kitchens had running water.

@JaninaDuszejko

surely the U term must be scullery?

No, a utility room is where you wash your clothes (so laundry), a scullery is where the pots and pans and dishes are washed, it was the sink for the kitchen before kitchens had running water.

What we call the utility room was, on the original plans, The Buttery. Victorian house in a town, I can’t think much butter was made in it.

It's room here in S Yorkshire as in "you've left it in the room"

London born and bred working class and it’s always been the front room. But then I grew up in a two up two down house so downstairs you had a front room...and a kitchen. Toilet was in the garden!

Living room at a push if I was catching myself and talking to someone I perceived as “posher.” Lounge I can’t hear without it sounding like “Laaaaaahng”

@TrickyD - the buttery was a storage or service room house where butts, barrels or bottles were stored (and then served by the BUTler, in grander houses.) No butter required

Lounge is more posh to me.

I grew up in a 3 bed semi. So had neither a lounge or living room. We had a front room and a back room.

My house now doesn't have a standard layout (conversion) and our main room isn't at the front. Yet we still call it the front room as my husband did too as a child.

@AprilThe8th

It's room here in S Yorkshire as in "you've left it in the room"

Same here, or more likely 'it's int'room', might possibly say front room or living room, but never lounge or sitting room.

When I grew up, hardly anyone had a second reception room, but one older relative did. I found it very bizarre that she had a room in her house that she never seemed to use, the door had never been in there any time we visited.

You could call it a parlour

There was a girl in my class at who called it the drawing room. I remember when I went to her house I thought maybe her dad was a draughtsman, and expected to see his desk set up in there, lol

[quote LovelyMagazine]@TrickyD - the buttery was a storage or service room house where butts, barrels or bottles were stored (and then served by the BUTler, in grander houses.) No butter required [/quote]
We are a bit short on butts and barrels. Quite a few bottles though. for Butler DH to bring me.

I also struggle with the paved area outside at the back, before the garden, 'patio' sounds pretentious, so I call it the 'yard'

Yard to me is either an American back garden or if in the UK, the back of a pub where they store empty kegs. You can't have a yard and a garden in the same space (in my mind at least). Patio is just a standard word for the paved bit of your garden. 'Terrace' might be slightly pretentious.

@JaninaDuszejko don’t most utility rooms still have a sink? My parents have their dishwasher in theirs too, so I will start calling it their scullery

@TrickyD at Oxbridge the buttery is the college cafeteria so maybe it’s where they had their lunch!

@MyNameForToday1980

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

////Runs for cover

I noticed that the signs at Gatwick Airport use "toilet", so I think it's OK to use that word.

(I agree that "toilet" has the class-associations you claim, I'm just saying that people who want to see themselves more as citizens of the world than little-Englanders need to get past that.)

Neither term is posh. Sitting room is more correct. Drawing room is a room that is primarily used for entertaining, not for general, everyday living.

Front room for us