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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.

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".

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.

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

Always front room

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

Bed 1, bed 2, bed 3, living room

Jani31 Sun 15-Mar-20 12:18:44

Front room always x

Jillybird Sun 15-Mar-20 12:39:33

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Grannytwo Sun 15-Mar-20 12:46:12

Wehave a day room and sitting room where the TV is. Upstairs we have our room, the ugly room and green room !

varian Sun 15-Mar-20 12:46:44

Did Hyacinth Bucket have a lounge?

EthelJ Sun 15-Mar-20 13:09:57

I say living room, my mum always said front place or front room. For some reason I dislike the word lounge!

Crechat39 Sun 15-Mar-20 13:12:08

Its a front room of course. It was after all the front of the house! The room behind it was the kitchen although the room with the sink and the cooker was a shed and yes, it was actually a shed.
The meal we had around 5:30 in the evening was, and still is, Tea. At 12:00 we had Dinner.

sharon59 Sun 15-Mar-20 13:15:24

living room and conservatory here. Don't like the term Master bedroom, we have our bedroom, back bedroom and little bedroom.

BladeAnnie Sun 15-Mar-20 13:16:51

We have a lounge and a den (boys room with audio, projector, big screen etc

paddyanne Sun 15-Mar-20 13:17:36

Alexa no need for any name when it was a single end ...lol

EthelJ Sun 15-Mar-20 13:19:12

janeainsworth
I usually call our main meal tea as well. Normally we just have lunch and tea if we go out for a meal in the evening though or invite people round though I would always say dinner. I don't know why! Language is odd isn't it?

Madmaggie Sun 15-Mar-20 13:20:31

In estate agents parlance it's our "recently decorated in pleasant neutral tones. Sunny, park aspect, well proportioned lounge" but we call it 'the front room'grin

Poppsbaggie Sun 15-Mar-20 13:21:43

Does anyone really care? Surely there are many more important things to concern us.

quizqueen Sun 15-Mar-20 13:21:47

I call it the lounge now but, as a child growing up in a council house, it was the front or living room. The evening meal has always been tea though (lunch is midday)so not that posh yet!

axxliz Sun 15-Mar-20 13:27:52

Sitting room. My Mum always called it that too.

dorcas1950 Sun 15-Mar-20 14:00:34

Drawing room.

Susie42 Sun 15-Mar-20 14:01:29

Sitting room and we also have a dining room.

Daddima Sun 15-Mar-20 14:14:22

Gummie my mother always said only airports and hotels have lounges! We have a living room.

Nanny27 Sun 15-Mar-20 14:27:50

We have a sitting room. I also grew up being told that airports and pubs have lounges. Also that living rooms were in houses that had only one room. If you had a separate dining room then your 'other room' was not a living room.

Witzend Sun 15-Mar-20 14:36:42

My elderly Yorkshire landlady in the 60s used to call her living/dining room ‘the house’.
‘Come in’t house, love.’
She still used thee and thou, too, but mostly to her budgie.

4allweknow Sun 15-Mar-20 14:44:45

Love Paddyanne and the 5 bedroom house description of being normal. I have a sunroom, front room and all the 4 bedrooms are bedrooms even though one has an en suite.

ayokunmi1 Sun 15-Mar-20 14:57:43

Sitting room.Thats what my parents called theirs but I love my kitchen we sit and have more fun in it than any other place.