The main room in your house...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 !

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.

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!

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Someone said ‘only airports have lounges’ 😁

But we are Northeners 🤫

Front room known as the sitting room.

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

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.

Someone said ‘only airports have lounges’ 😁

Yes as a young child although if was "the front room" not the parlour, and my parents were far from conventional, that front room wasn't used a lot, and it was the one with the sun. However it was small and the living room was bigger - and of course, it was a matter of heating! Front room fire rarely got lit.

but when we moved to a larger semi and 4 children both rooms got used a lot. Sunny larger front room, TV, hanging out. the back room was used mostly for music practice, homework, hobbies, it had the gramophone in etc. It was supposed to be "the dining room" I guess in days before, (it had a hatch to the kitchen) but the kitchen was big enough for a table.

Sitting room, same as when I was a child.

We have a lounge and a back lounge!

We had a living room, the front room was only used when we had visitors or at Christmas. My parents would have thought it frivolous to heat more than one downstairs room.
These days I live in the kitchen during the day except when I read or watch TV, then I go into the snug (commonly known as the "dog room" as he has free access to all the chairs and sofas. The sitting room is never used when we are on our own, nor is the dining room but come into use when we have people staying (dog is not allowed on the chairs and sofas).

Living room in every house I have been in. My childhood home also had a front room which was only used and the fire lit at Christmas.

for some reason when I was a child, our living room was called the kitchen, and the kitchen was called the scullery, when we moved to a 3 bedroom house, it was the living room and kitchen

I've got one room as the two small ones were joined together.

So it's "downstairs"."My downstairs room". I guess I say, "in the kitchen". but before it was the Living room and the Kitchen.

As a child it was the front room and the living room and the kitchen.

Lounge was posh or southerners.

Sago

This wonderful poem by Sir John Betjeman sums it up.

I think of it every time hear the words serviettes, toilet and lounge I think of this.

I don’t think the word “posh” was used so much in the 50’s otherwise I’m sure he would have somehow got it in there!

Betjeman was a terrible old snob 😁