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To use estate agent parlance "What do you call your main reception room?"

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vampirequeen Sat 14-Mar-20 10:48:54

Is it your lounge, parlour, living room or something else?

I have a living room.

Dottydots Sat 14-Mar-20 13:44:11

Well, I like to lounge around in my lounge, watching tv, etc, and sit around in my sitting room whilst eating my meals.

annsixty Sat 14-Mar-20 13:49:16

Thank you Kadinsky I knew we would not fall out over a word?

varian Sat 14-Mar-20 13:50:14

We have a living room, study and a tv room.

In a larger, grander house you might have a drawing room, but it would have to be a very large room in a very grand house with a host of other reception rooms.

If you live in a hotel, a pub or an airport, you probably have a lounge.

Curlywhirly Sat 14-Mar-20 13:51:59

Northern roots here too - when young we had a front room and back kitchen; don't know why it wasn't just the kitchen. Calling the room a front room has stuck - but now we have 2, so it's small front room and big front room! Moved on from saying back kitchen and just call ours the kitchen. Bedrooms are: ours, the children's (each by name) and the office (our spare room with desk and computer and where I do my ironing).

FlexibleFriend Sat 14-Mar-20 13:54:39

We have a lounge and it's at the back of the house. All our bedrooms are the same size so we refer to them by occupant.

SueDonim Sat 14-Mar-20 14:54:42

Sitting room.

Hetty58 Sat 14-Mar-20 15:00:34

Living room (of course) as a lounge is in a pub or hotel and sitting room is rather slang. Couch, settee or sofa?

dahlia Sat 14-Mar-20 15:14:16

Sitting room, with another cosy room called the snug when it's really chilly!

Juno56 Sat 14-Mar-20 15:19:44

Sitting room, in which I sit on a sofa. DH has the small sitting room, his 'snug', in which he lies on a couch to watch his tv progs. He refers to the room in which I sit as 'the lounge' and we sit together on a settee ?. Bedrooms are: 'our room', *'s (DS) room, spare room and the unused one is the junk room. Main evening meal is dinner. I don't have a three piece suite just a large sofa and a small sofa. DH and I are both Southerners.

wicklowwinnie Sat 14-Mar-20 15:45:44

Same as Jane10. We were taught sittingroom, lounges were hotels and airports. Also sofa, not settee!!

Davida1968 Sat 14-Mar-20 15:55:12

Living room. (In a previous home with two such rooms, they were: "front room" and "middle room.")

Calendargirl Sat 14-Mar-20 15:58:54

Growing up, it was always ‘the room’ and only used at Christmas. Our living room was ‘the kitchen’, and we had a ‘scullery’ where we washed up, plus a pantry, a wash house, a verandah, bathroom, mum and dad’s bedroom, my sister and my bedroom, and a hall.
After we moved when I was about 13, we went to visit the new owners and my sister and I mortified Mum by loudly commenting how small all the rooms were, as if we had moved into a mansion, which we had not!

Alexa Sat 14-Mar-20 16:15:08

The kitchen

farview Sat 14-Mar-20 16:19:02

Living room..sometimes front room..my grandma always called hers the parlour..

Gaunt47 Sat 14-Mar-20 16:57:46

The third (smallest) bedroom is the box room.

dragonfly46 Sat 14-Mar-20 17:22:06

The living room and ‘my room’.

Patsy70 Sat 14-Mar-20 18:02:47

Living room.

janeainsworth Sat 14-Mar-20 18:26:32

Thank you annsixty, homeliness is what matters to me too.

kandinsky you’re forgiven grin

SalsaQueen Sat 14-Mar-20 18:57:10

I've got a front room.

My late mother-in-law was rather pretentious (I don't know why, as she was common as muck), and she told me she had a "cloakroom" - until I pointed out it was a cupboard where the coats and shoes were kept. grin

Tangerine Sat 14-Mar-20 20:10:24

Lounge is the word I use.

Lilypops Sat 14-Mar-20 23:02:05

Anyone got a room they call the morning room/breakfast room

GabriellaG54 Sat 14-Mar-20 23:11:24

Sitting room. Lounge and front room are from a bygone era.

Gummie Sat 14-Mar-20 23:18:29

Front room. Lounges are in airports and hotels not houses ?.

callgirl1 Sat 14-Mar-20 23:19:56

Living room.
Upstairs we have my bedroom, back bedroom and little bedroom.
JaneA, our main meal is tea as well, mid-day meal is dinner.

mumofmadboys Sat 14-Mar-20 23:26:12

We have a lounge and a back lounge!