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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.

annsixty Sat 14-Mar-20 12:24:24

Kadinsky will be avoiding me as well.
“You can’t win em all”

grannyactivist Sat 14-Mar-20 12:07:06

You know when (or is it just me?) you write a word a lot of times quickly and then it starts to look odd?

Room is looking decidedly weird.

JuliaM Sat 14-Mar-20 12:06:08

Main downstairs room is simply the 'Front room' 'Back room' is the Dining room but seldom used as one for formal sit down meals these days, as we tend to eat in the Kitchen or 'Front Room' whilst watching TV. The bedrooms are mostly known by their Colour scheme, Pink room, Blue room, Rose room, Grandads room, Grandmas room and Office, Store room, Bathroom and Ensuite! The colours have changed in some rooms, but they have still been known by the same name from when we first moved in over 20yrs ago.

janeainsworth Sat 14-Mar-20 12:06:06

For an amusing account of social class indicators, see Kaye Fox’s Watching the English, an anthropologist’s study of the English and their taboos, manners, speech and class consciousness.

grannyactivist Sat 14-Mar-20 12:04:06

Sitting room, living room, front room.
Bedrooms are; my room, lodger’s room, green room, blue room, baby’s room and attic room.

janeainsworth Sat 14-Mar-20 12:00:46

Oh well you’ll want to avoid me and my lounge then, Kandinsky. Not a bad thing, perhaps.
I sometimes refer to our main meal as ‘tea’ too. shock
Another indicator of my supposedly northern lower-class origins.

kittylester Sat 14-Mar-20 11:56:11

Cor, kandinsky, that's harsh!

TrendyNannie6 Sat 14-Mar-20 11:55:21

Living room

shysal Sat 14-Mar-20 11:55:17

Mine is a living room as it is for sitting and dining.

kittylester Sat 14-Mar-20 11:55:05

I hate master bedroom and guest bedroom.

We have our bedroom, the children's bedroom and the other bedroom.

DoraMarr Sat 14-Mar-20 11:53:11

My parents always called it the lounge, but I notice my mother is now calling it the sitting room. I just have a room! I think if I’m describing it I just call it the main room. It has the kitchen at one end and a dining table and chairs, so it’s a portmanteau room really.

Kandinsky Sat 14-Mar-20 11:49:24

Front room, or maybe living room if my more middle class friends are visiting.

I couldn’t be friends with anyone who uses the word ‘lounge’. Ugh.

Franbern Sat 14-Mar-20 11:46:29

Living room and main bedroom (for the largest)

annsixty Sat 14-Mar-20 11:46:27

Well I am a pleb and I have a lounge but my GD who lives with me calls it the living room.
Growing up we had a kitchen which we lived in all week, only venturing into the “front room” at weekends.
To further compound my lowly status I have ( horror of horrors) a three piece suite!!

grandMattie Sat 14-Mar-20 11:44:45

Sitting room. When I lived in Oz in the early 60s, one sat on the lounge in the lounge-room. I thought it very peculiar

NotSpaghetti Sat 14-Mar-20 11:40:40

We also have a sitting room Jane10, and no “master bedroom”.

Jane10 Sat 14-Mar-20 11:38:12

We have a sitting room. No 'master bedroom' either. Just bedrooms.
We were taught at school that hotels had 'lounges' ie they were public spaces.

Nortsat Sat 14-Mar-20 11:34:25

Living room.

And main bedroom, I think master bedroom is ludicrous...

tanith Sat 14-Mar-20 11:27:38

Front room here too.

boheminan Sat 14-Mar-20 11:26:07

It's always been 'the front room'

Missfoodlove Sat 14-Mar-20 11:13:43

We have a living room and a “snug”.

paddyanne Sat 14-Mar-20 11:09:16

living room,I hate "lounge" .Mind you I dont like "master bedroom" either ,its a bit pretentious unless you live in a massive house with multiple rooms ,not the normal 5 bed we're in where its the front room the back room ,nana's room and GD's room and the spare .

Anniebach Sat 14-Mar-20 11:02:51

Living room

Pittcity Sat 14-Mar-20 10:57:56

Living Room.

kittylester Sat 14-Mar-20 10:51:56

We have the lounge and the playroom. grin