Couch,settee or sofa...

I like 'garden room ' mcem it's classy not pretentious.
Merlotgran that was one of my problems too ending up with all the extra throws to wash.
My JR is too old to jump on the settee now but the other two dogs and cat still would like to.

I think I may go back to 'settee'. It would be a shame if the word died out.

I wouldn't mind betting the aristocracy are now calling sofas settees because thanks to TV advertising, any common old pleb can be heard discussing their latest sofa (which they used to call a settee)

Thanks soda . I have a problem that the "garden room*, the dining area and the kitchen all occupy the same space!
Lots of lovely old buildings locally are being converted to fairly upmarket flats but most have the kitchen as part of the living room and no separate sitting room!
I don't like this because the settee/sofa /couch then doubles up as a room divider !!

My sofa is in my front & back room. (It's double aspect )
My parents always referred to the settee. I'm not sure when I lost the settee and became a sofa convert, but I definitely prefer it to settee which sounds very 'between the wars'. Sofa sounds more comfortable and squishy.. never couch which I find a very strange, hard, uncomfortable sort of word

Settee most of the time but I find I’m using sofa more often so I may be getting posher. Definitely never couch. My granny looked down on those who said couch.

Haha NfkDumpling, your granny would have been looking askance at my mother! Always and only couch where I lived. Settee was considered common!

This is getting like the old sketch about the British class system where everyone is looking down at someone!

Settee when I was a child, now it's a sofa. I would have thought that in these #Metoo times, couch has too many echoes of casting.

At a slight tangent, has anyone else noticed the increasing use of chaise lounge instead of chaise longue? Ignorance, stupid auto-correct, Americanism, or a new word devised by a lover of anagrams?

It's a sofa for me.

Settee, unless I`m buying a new one, then I say I`m looking for a sofa, sounds posher.

Sofa for me

I’ve got two couches in my front room, so can be doubly looked down on!

I have always said sofa but now live in a country where this item of furniture is always called a couch. Consequently, I sometimes call it a cofa or a souch when talking distractedly to my grandchildren.

Maggiemaybe, you and me also! .
In fact I have two in the conservatory, is that a quadruple looked down on?

sofa or settee

I think "settee" sounds posher.

When I was a child we had a neighbour who confused me by telling me to go and sit on the chesterfield, I didn't have a clue what a chesterfield was. I usually say settee but rather depends on who I am talking to.

JackyB that is interesting because we have bought a new sofa/settee recently and we noticed that the more upmarket (and expensive) the store the more likely it was to have the word 'sofa' in its name.

Maggiemaybe & Marydoll
We have two front rooms, with two couches in one and one in the other, as it's very, very infrequently used as a 'formal' dining room,
The back room is where we spend most of our time, and there are two couches in there, with another small couch in the kitchen!
They're all couches, and visitors are encouraged to kick of their shoes and sprawl on them!

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Just googled settee/sofa.
I think I shall rename the sofa 'tete a tete'. Do come in Vicar and make yourself comfortable on my tete a tete ?

The mind boggles, Marmight!

We usually say couch.

You could be really out there and use the Canadian term chesterfield

We are looking for a small 2 seater sofa for our kitchen. Any ideas ladies ?

I was thinking about replacing ours for Christmas, BBbevan, and we'd need a small and a large. I found that Sofa Workshop and made.com both had a good choice of small ones on offer. There are so many companies though, and so much choice, and I think that's why I never got round to it!

Thank you Maggie