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

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).

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.

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

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

sitting room or living room.

I grew up calling it a lounge (with a couch to sit on) but now have a living room and a sofa. Sitting room /settee sound posh to me - but not as much as drawing room. And we still eat tea (main evening meal) and I also have a 3 piece suite! Northern roots!

My friend just calls it The Room. Weird.

I was being light hearted about avoiding anyone who says lounge.
I definitely wouldn’t avoid any of you as you’re all so lovely.

Lovebeigecardigans When I put my last house on the market the EA asked, ""How many reception rooms?" and I felt like asking, "What the frig's a reception room?"

Living room/sitting room. both. Never the lounge.

We have front room , back room ,kitchen and for want of a better name a morning room, it's always been known as that as it was on the estate agents blurb when we first bought the house 52 years ago , it's the room we come into in the morning to get to the kitchen then have our breakfast , I suppose we could call it the breakfast room but in this day and age it sounds strange, Anyone else got a Morning room ?

If you really want to be posh 'Garden Rooms' are popular now. Somewhere to leave your wellies?

There used to be a room known as "the rumpus room cum think tank" Not sure whether that phrase is still used.

When I put my last house on the market the EA asked, ""How many reception rooms?" and I felt like asking, "What the frig's a reception room?"
Just the one now (sadly) and it's the living room, I expect an EA would call it a lounge-diner.

The Lounge.

janea your ‘lounge’ looks very much like mine...even the white roses(?) in the fireplace.

As our house is long and one room deep, no front or back room. So living room, as already mentioned. dining hall, because it contains the front door and the dining table. It is the hall all the time and dining room when the family come, then their is the study. A book and paper filled room with a large double desk and our computers, finally the kitchen/breakfastroom.

Bedrooms are 'ours', 'spare', 'children's' and 'DD's'

I also have a living room. My smallest bedroom is known as the 3rd bedroom.

As a child, being Scottish I had dinner at dinner time- 12 midday ish. We had tea at home but went out for a high tea.

Growing up it was the front room - now I call it the sitting room (it's where I sit!)

Sitting room.

Mine is the living room. I have American friends who refer to theirs as the 'great room.'

It’s lovely Jane and the sort that anyone would feel at home in.
That is of utmost importance to me.
Mine is currently untidy, I am scheduled for a hip replacement in less than 2 weeks so housework is of no interest to me.

My ‘lounge’.

‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’

Front room, living room, our bedroom, little bedroom and back bedroom - we keep things simple.

We call our rooms by the prominent feature that was in the room when we viewed the house. So our rooms are Parrot, Chopper (bike) Nom and Gym. Yes, there were huge letters on the dining room wall spelling out ”NOM” so glad they took those with them!