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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.

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.

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

It's the lounge here

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.

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.

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

We have a lounge and a back lounge!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lounge is the word I use.

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

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

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

kandinsky you’re forgiven grin

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

Living room.

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

The living room and ‘my room’.

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

The third (smallest) bedroom is the box room.

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

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

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

The kitchen

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!

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.")

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

Sitting room.

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.