The main room in your house...

Someone said ‘only airports have lounges’ 😁

We have a living room, dining room and study, all much of a size. We spend most of our indoor time in the study. It is where many of our books are, our computers and a nice electric log burning stove, which gives a very cosy illusion in winter.

We have always had a study in every house we have lived in and what has always fascinated me is the number of tradesmen we have had in the house, who have really loved our various studies and said that their dream was to own a house with a room like our study, with books on the walls, a huge desk and a couple of comfortable chairs (and no tv).

As a child we referred to the main room as the sitting room. I lived in nearly 10 houses when I was young and in winter, when only one room was heated, which room that was varied. None had kitchens big enough so it was either the room leading off the kitchen or where the kitchen opened off the hall, the sitting room.

We called it the Living room when so was a child and I have done ever since as an adult.

Front room known as the sitting room.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Someone said ‘only airports have lounges’ 😁

But we are Northeners 🤫

We had a front room, a back room and a scullery (which was a kitchen but with no kitchen units, only one of those cupboards with a pull-down work surface and storage above and below.) All our main living area was below pavement level accessed by steps down to the "Airy" as we called it, which was a narrow corridor in front of the front room window, below the level of the front garden. So hard to describe, but any Londoners here who lived in a 3 storey town-house will recoginse it.

We spent most of the day in the back room, which had the dining table and chairs and a couple of comfy chairs by the open fire. In the evenings we would decamp into the front room which had the TV and three piece suite. The scullery was very cold and tacked on at the back of the house so as little time as possible was spent there!

We call it the front room (although it is at the back !!) I think I will start calling it the living room or sitting room which sounds more appropriate.

Sago

I forgot the poem!!!!!

How To Get On In Society

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.

Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till the girl has replenished the cruets
And switched on the logs in the grate.

It's ever so close in the lounge dear,
But the vestibule's comfy for tea
And Howard is riding on horseback
So do come and take some with me

Now here is a fork for your pastries
And do use the couch for your feet;
I know that I wanted to ask you-
Is trifle sufficient for sweet?

Milk and then just as it comes dear?
I'm afraid the preserve's full of stones;
Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys
With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.

Love it !

M0nica

We have a living room, dining room and study, all much of a size. We spend most of our indoor time in the study. It is where many of our books are, our computers and a nice electric log burning stove, which gives a very cosy illusion in winter.

We have always had a study in every house we have lived in and what has always fascinated me is the number of tradesmen we have had in the house, who have really loved our various studies and said that their dream was to own a house with a room like our study, with books on the walls, a huge desk and a couple of comfortable chairs (and no tv).

As a child we referred to the main room as the sitting room. I lived in nearly 10 houses when I was young and in winter, when only one room was heated, which room that was varied. None had kitchens big enough so it was either the room leading off the kitchen or where the kitchen opened off the hall, the sitting room.

Your home sounds perfectly cozy M0nica.

My home has a room called a library, which is a notch down from your lovely study.

Sitting room, but sit in our conservatory which is another sitting room with proper furniture for most of the year.

I'm still waiting for someone to say they had a drawing room which we had. It had a large fireplace with lovely tiles down the sides. We also had a morning room off the kitchen and a garden room.

These days, I have a lounge as the main room where humans and beasts gather after 6pm.

We call ours living room,we have a dining room which are separated with sliding doors.

Front room growing up (it was). Now I'm in the sitting room at the back!

I seem to be in the minority, I have a lounge, always have had.
Our current house has a bit of a dilemma, is that the porch, or the utility, or the bootroom where we come in the front door? It's a hundred-year-old country bungalow with a couple or three extensions.

My dad always referred to salt and pepper as the cruet, and my mother never went to the toilet or loo, she always went to spend a penny.
And on a slightly different note, we were never allowed to eat in the street, unless on holiday and having an ice cream.

Growing up the front room was kept for best, (where me and boyfriend were allowed to go and be alone 🤣). The biggest room was a living and diner area.
My house has a living or front room as that’s where it is.

grandMattie

I’m either in the living room or sitting room. Same difference.

(In Oz, when I lived there, it was called the “lounge room”!)

When I was in Australia, there was something called the rumpus room, which I found rather funny

Ours is a "lounge/diner", but we just call it the front room.