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

Sorry, PC going crackers!. Was taught never to say Lounge as they only occurred in Airports or Hotels.

Living room. If you mean the one with the telly in.

Sitting room for me.

@BeautifulStar

Lounge is awful - Properly posh people would never say Lounge.

I agree. You only find lounges in airports. I have worked as a housekeeper in several posh houses and there have been drawing rooms, boot rooms, morning rooms and family rooms but never any lounges.

See I think lounge is posh! Its a living room here

I dither between saying pantry or larder for small room off the kitchen. There is a window and shelving but no marble slab so not particularly cool.

Oh to have a pantry/larder dilemma to dither over.

We say front room, middle room and back room weirdly!

@Eeeeeeeeeeeek

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?

I think partially - I would personally say napkin whether cloth or paper but if someone said serviette I would assume it was paper.

I'm writing this from my sofa in the sitting room.

Also NW. I say front room (with the big light on). We sit on the settee in there.
It's not at the front of my house and I haven't got any other reception rooms but hey.

I have always said "front room" as did my mates from home (south Wales).

Confuses my partner (north west England) no end now that we live in a house where the actual front room is a dining room and the back room is the "lounge" as he calls it with the telly and sofa.

Isn’t the point that none of the words are “posh”. You’ll find upper class people who use all these different words interchangeably (yes, the Earl of Leicester refers to his family lounge at Holkham Hall), because upper class people don’t generally care what anybody calls anything: upper class people know whether you’re in their club or not based on your family name, what your father does, which school you went to, and where you go skiing – whether you say sitting room, napkin and lavatory or lounge, serviette and toilet is totally irrelevant to the discussion.

It’s only the striving middle classes who think using the “right” words is important, because in an age where having a university education and a profession is no guarantee of having a more comfortable lifestyle, a better house and a higher income than your mechanic or plumber, you have to find all kinds of alternative indicators of making sure your peers can identify that you aren’t lower class and ensuring you can laugh at the lower classes and their silly little attempts to pretend they’re as good as you

In my life its the front room. A second less used one wold be the parlour.

At work, depending on the number of them, Reception Room, Sitting Room or Living Room, the latter being a multi use space, from bedsit to living/dining room

Living room here.
Lounge, just never said it.
Australians say lounge room though.
Sitting room sounds so posh.

We had a living room that was so small we called it the Snug

In my parents' house we say 'blue room', 'yellow room', etc. according to the colour of the walls rather than what the room is used for.

I always say sitting room, DH says living room.
We also have a morning room and a games room but we only call them those for fun because we know it sounds wanky.

I'd get told off as a child for saying lounge, couch and toilet. Also for belly and bum.
I cannot stand loo, always have I don't know why so I continue to annoy my DM with toilet.

Lounges are only found at airports. Not posh. My extremely posh mother would have cried if we called it that. Drawing room is posh. Sitting room normal. We say the ‘front room’, even though it’s not really at the front.

Front room, sitting room or living room for me. I agree, lounges are for hotels or airports!

'Front parlour'

Our main room is the sitting room and the smaller TV room is the snug

'Lounge room' is only used by Australians, isn't it? Heard it used in Neighbours.

I don't really like lounge, like pps say, it sounds a bit like trying to be posh, but failing, like 'serviette'. I think 'living room' just sounds neutral, so that's what I normally use. 'Sitting room' is fine too though. Maybe slightly more old-fashioned?

'Parlour' just sounds Victorian ('Won't you come into my parlour?, said the spider to the fly'). 'Snug' is sort of modern posh. And 'drawing room' is both old-fashioned and terribly, terribly posh. Achingly so.

We had a front room growing up in London. It was at the front though and we also had a back room (at the back!)

Why do you care?

Also, neither are posh. Some upper middle class people say “sitting room”, and the pretentious or genuinely really posh have a “drawing room”