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

we say sitting room
I have never called it a lounge or living room
We also have a sun room!

Another one for 'front room' here even though it is not at the front of the house anymore...I would use 'living room' otherwise.

Lounge and settee - both very non you.

@burritofan

Trickaloo, it’s actually sitting room.

Yep sitting room here too

Neither, sitting room

We have a morning room too 😳 but that’s not really for the same purpose as a sitting room / lounge

Call it a front room, even if not at the front. From easy Yorkshire.

At a push I might say living room but absolutely never lounge or sitting room.

Also growing up, we'd often call it the other room because there were only two rooms downstairs.

I use both, neither are posh! I dont use sitting room so I agree with others that must be the posh term

We have front room and other front room.

New builds seem to have relax! (which is basically space in the kitchen for a sofa) and, if they're expensive enough, a snug or family room.

Grew up in North West. Front room (never used - except for the occasional body), a smaller Living room - in which we ate, did homework, watched tv and argued. Now live in Oz. The house has a front room generally known as lounge room here (no tv), and used mainly when doing proper grown up dinner party type entertaining ( ie hardly ever). The back room is the family room, which is open plan with the kitchen & has the dining table, tv, sofas & very importantly- easy access to the bbq and the garden. Everything happens here. The use of snug in the UK baffles me in private houses. I always associate this with the term with pubs - a smaller, typically back room where you could have a quiet chat. And maybe bump into Ena Sharples sipping her port & lemon. In Oz, We generally go to the loo, but clean the toilets. I have noticed use of the Americanism, ‘washroom’ creeping in. Never hear anyone use lavatory or lav, both of which are an abomination.

I say living room. I write lounge because I’m lazy and it’s a one word.

No idea what’s posher.

How is a lavatory an abomination?

I just say living room because that's what I do there. I don't lounge very often

@TeeBee

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.

In what sense is it ‘correct’? I sit in the study and dining room too, and even on the loo

Neither are ‘posh’. Nancy Mitford is having several fits.

I’ve never said lounge though, always living room or front room.

Lounges, settees, serviettes, lavatories - all the sign of someone aspiring to be a better class than they really are- lower middle middle at best and obvious giveaways that someone isn't top drawer. Especially if they have anti- maccassers on their draylon three piece suite

Lounge is one of those words that sounds posher but isn't, I think.

Idk. Sitting room is the phrase I'd most associate with 'poshness'. I call ours the living room. The kids call it the front room which irritates me as it's our only living room so you don't need to differentiate between a front and back room. DH calls it "the room".

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?

What is a morning room actually for?

The lady of the house tends to her correspondence in the morning room. And it's where the housekeeper brings Cook's suggested menu for the week for her to approve.

My parents did not bother to name the rooms. We had the kitchen (where everything happened), the room and the far room. I suspect we were not very posh :)

Lounge!!!

Was taught never to say Lounge - tAirports or Hotels. Always Drawing Room at home.

North West here.

Front room for us, lounge sounds twee and naff.