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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.

cupaffull Sun 15-Mar-20 12:13:01

Bed 1, bed 2, bed 3, living room

Pamrc1 Sun 15-Mar-20 11:33:01

Always front room

Lupatria Sun 15-Mar-20 11:11:20

i have a lounge! but my daughter and grandaughters who live with me call it a living room.
my friend has a front room although it's at the back of her flat.
my late mum also had a front room but her's was at the front of their house.
different strokes for different folks as always.
incidentally i call my evening meal tea too.

Alexa Sun 15-Mar-20 11:02:51

Betty18, so interesting! Such are the markers of social class.

I don't know, but I bet really upper class people say "cut the grass".

Betty18 Sun 15-Mar-20 10:54:06

Have this argument with best friend frequently . I have a front room ( common?) and she has a lounge or living room ( posh?) also I cut the grass whereas she mows the lawn ! Get her !!!

Alexa Sun 15-Mar-20 10:53:59

So interesting Mollycuddler: "The house" in living memory. I wonder if that usage was from times when all ordinary country people lived in one room, and any built addition was a lean -too for sheep , pig, or cow.

Alexa Sun 15-Mar-20 10:50:54

My straight speaking inlaws who lived in a Glasgow tenement would have had a lot of fun over people who called it "the lounge"

Alexa Sun 15-Mar-20 10:49:18

My parents called the reception room for welcome visitors the drawing room. I have always known 'lounge' is non -U . My husband and inlaws who lived in a two room tenement called the living room the room which was not the kitchen 'the room' as the flat was designated a "room and kitchen".

H1954 Sun 15-Mar-20 10:47:00

By 'eck! Who would have though such an innocent OP could spark such class divide!

Kartush Sun 15-Mar-20 10:41:11

Our rooms tend to be named for their use
We have a lounge room
Bedrooms are our room spare room and spare room
There’s the kids room/toy room
My bathroom husbands bathroom
My office ...husbands office
Dining room and kitchen. We tend to verbally separate those rooms even though they are actually one long room
When I was a child in England I remember we called it the front room and we had a back kitchen

Phloembundle Sun 15-Mar-20 10:36:11

Front room.

ReadyMeals Sun 15-Mar-20 10:28:26

Since getting smart home products I have called it the living room since that is one of the list of options of room names Google seems to offer. Front room wasn't on the list.

Pussycat2012 Sun 15-Mar-20 10:26:31

We’ve got a lounge (inherited word fro my childhood) and mum n dad’s room and so on depending on whose bedroom it is. (Even tho 2 out my 3 kids don’t live here anymore)!

Riggie Sun 15-Mar-20 10:23:28

Living room, sitting room, lounge, front room....yes GagaJo drawing room or parlour if Im taking the piss too!!

kittylester Sun 15-Mar-20 10:20:19

We have our bedroom, the (grand)children's bedroom aka the dormitory and the spare bedroom. We dont have guests we have family or friends to stay.

Molli Sun 15-Mar-20 10:17:40

Just had to ask hubby what we call our main room and he said ‘well I call it the living room BUT You always say ‘the other room’ if I’m somewhere other than in it. We have a dining room, music room and bedrooms and a kitchen which I label correctly apparently? . My children’s friends thought it was a bit odd but nobody got confused!

Grandma70s Sun 15-Mar-20 10:15:42

Sitting room.

Bedrooms are my room, spare room, and two rooms still known by my sons’ names although they left home a good twenty-five years ago.

crazyH Sun 15-Mar-20 10:14:18

Lounge

fluff Sun 15-Mar-20 10:10:25

It’s the lounge here, but if being super pretentious, I call it the withdrawing room ???

Maybelle Sun 15-Mar-20 10:04:58

Living room here, and only 1 bedroom so no need to identify which bedroom.

grannypiper Sun 15-Mar-20 09:59:33

Living room and our bedroom. and just like you annsixty i have a three piece suite grin

Moggycuddler Sun 15-Mar-20 09:56:57

Living room. My mum and some others of her generation when I was a child (in the North West) used to always refer to the main room or living room as "the house". Or in truth bearing in mind the dialect "th' 'ouse". If we were in the kitchen and I asked where something was that was in the living room she'd say it was in the house. Seems very weird now! As if only that room was "th' 'ouse".

timetogo2016 Sun 15-Mar-20 09:40:38

Lounge it`s where I lounge not live in.
Our bed room dd`s room and the little bed room.

missdeke Sun 15-Mar-20 09:35:16

How weird, I don't know!! Possibly because I only have one room, I just say 'come in, mind the cat'......?

Ngaio1 Sun 15-Mar-20 09:31:34

Drawing Room. As a child I was taught that only hotels and airports have "lounges".