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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.

NotSpaghetti Sun 15-Mar-20 00:57:56

Lilypops - I too had a room we rather grandly called the "Morning Room".
It's now part of the kitchen as we knocked them through.

Rosina Sun 15-Mar-20 09:27:04

When a busy day is over and dinner eaten I usually drift in to the room at the front of the house overlooking the garden to read newspapers, watch TV, make phone calls, and all this is done while sitting. Therefore it has always been the sitting room in any house we have lived in.

stormy54 Sun 15-Mar-20 09:28:12

It's the lounge here

hicaz46 Sun 15-Mar-20 09:29:24

Front room because that is where it is. Coming in from front door ( which is actually on the side) you go right into the front room or left into the dining room.

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

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

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'......?

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.

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".

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lounge

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.

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!

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.

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!!

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)!

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.

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

Front room.

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

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

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

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".

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 10:53:59

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.

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 !!!