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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.

MiniDriver56 Mon 16-Mar-20 11:01:23

Lounge

Margs Mon 16-Mar-20 10:21:53

"in 'ere!"

Alexa Mon 16-Mar-20 10:08:27

Please add me to list of who dislikes 'master bedroom'. If the master wants to put his bed in the smallest room that is his own business. not the estate agent's.

grandtanteJE65 Mon 16-Mar-20 09:55:02

Sitting room or living room. Glad others dislike master bedroom too.

Saggi Mon 16-Mar-20 05:43:17

Sitting room and ‘snug’ ( tele free!)

Baloothefitz Mon 16-Mar-20 05:26:57

Sitting room,sofa & main bedroom or my bedroom, really don't like master bedroom, cringe when I hear it on house programmes & have told EA not to use it for me personally.

Coolgran65 Mon 16-Mar-20 02:14:51

Living room.
Bedrooms are our room. Back room and wee front room.

Eloethan Mon 16-Mar-20 00:50:19

Sitting room - but what does it matter?

MissAdventure Sun 15-Mar-20 23:59:25

Front room, sitting room, living room.
I don't say "lounge" because I know how it would sound with my accent.

Candelle Sun 15-Mar-20 23:44:39

Sitting room
Dining room
Family room (the messy one!)

Evie64 Sun 15-Mar-20 22:34:59

Front room, dining room, kitchen, sun room, bedrooms and front bedroom (the box room).

CrazyGranny60 Sun 15-Mar-20 22:25:59

Living room.

grannypiper Sun 15-Mar-20 22:12:09

My Great Granny had a room and kitchen, she spent most of her time in the kitchen, if she needed anything from the room she sent you "ben the hoose"

Shirls52000 Sun 15-Mar-20 21:35:10

Sitting room ?

Shizam Sun 15-Mar-20 20:38:01

I think my parents, who were from rural upbringing, said lounge. Sounded posh! And because we had two rooms, also a dining room. I say living room these days. Or the one at front, computer room.

Kim19 Sun 15-Mar-20 19:57:05

Lounge here. It's for high days and holidays. Living room is for the daily joy but is currently under renovation so lounge is taking a beating.

MamaCaz Sun 15-Mar-20 19:28:36

I call ours the living room when it's just me and OH here, but 'the playpen' when dgd is here/has just left. It's a very small room, and once dgd's toys are out, I really do feel like I am in a playpen!

cornergran Sun 15-Mar-20 19:23:42

Sitting room here. It’s not big enough for the multiple activities I associate with a living room, it is good to sit in though. We’ve a fairly large conservatory where we have a dining table and comfy chairs, so our living room has a glass roof, smile.

Blacktabby2 Sun 15-Mar-20 19:03:44

Lounge. Maybe it depends on what part of the country we are in??

Aepgirl Sun 15-Mar-20 18:44:46

Mine is my lounge. I think ‘Master Bedroom’ is very grand for what I imagine most of us live in. It’s just ‘my bedroom’.

Alexa Sun 15-Mar-20 18:38:45

Paddyann:

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

"A single end in Rothesay-O"

Grannycool52 Sun 15-Mar-20 18:26:27

We have a drawing room (that's what it was called when I was growing up), and another room called the dining room or the study depending on what we are doing in it ?.
The bedrooms are our room and the kids' rooms, even though the kids left home years ago.
We ' cut the grass' and have never 'mown the lawn', though my parents did!

CBBL Sun 15-Mar-20 18:24:41

Definitely "Living Room" for me. Our house is up for sale (particulars say "Reception room"), and I tell viewers "this is our main living room" - but it does lead to a "Sun room" which runs across the width of the building and has three large windows, double doors to the patio and a second half-glazed door to the side.

Daisydoes Sun 15-Mar-20 17:16:05

The living room, or front room?

Used in the evenings, or when we have visitors.

The back room or family room is used all through the day.

We also have a kitchen and back kitchen ( in addition to boot room).
I thought this was common, but having talked in passing to other people maybe it is not???

Musicgirl Sun 15-Mar-20 17:11:56

We always called it the lounge at home and l still tend to but call it a living room sometimes.