Living room, sitting room or lounge?

[Safeway]

Following on from the popular 'Sofa, settee or couch?' thread, what do you call the room where you watch TV, play with the cat and help yourself to the fruit bowl?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Front room for me.

 

[MRRF 10]

either front room or living room

 

[JJ McClure]

Bloody lounge innit.

 

[Vinyl Richie]

BLATENTLY the lounge you bunch of WEIRDOS. Either that or the tell hole/pit

 

[REDLAND]

Its soooooooo Lounge

 

[Braders]

front room!

 

[Safeway]

f***'s sake. I couldn't make my mind up between front room and sitting room. Eventually plumpted for living room and even edited my post in the settee thread as well accordingly. This on account of the fact that I didn't think anyone else called it the front room.

Bollocks, I'm all in a TIZ now.

 

[Highfields Seagull]

Lounge or Front Room - even when I'm visiting the folks in their new house where the "front room" is at the back of the house.

 

[bhafc4eva]

Has to be front room every time

 

[Gary Nelson]

It says lounge on my details unless its a mansion property and then its drawing room. Prefer sitting room tho

 

[Lush]

New word needed I think.

I mean "living" room - like you don't LIVE in any other room. Ditto "sitting" room.

Front room is from the days when people had a "posh-er" room at the front near the front door for guests and a back room which everyone spent most time in. Both were usually miniscule.

Drawing room - why? Someone on NSC will probably know.

I quite like lounging room rather than lounge.

 

[Gary Nelson]

-maybe to do your drawings in?

 

[Yorkie]

Living room

 

[alan partridge]

can't believe i am the only one to have put sitting room so far


what about parlour?

 

[Lady Bracknell]

"Drawing room" - from "withdrawing". Like where the laydees could go while the chaps had the port and cigars.

In this house we have the sitting room and the other sitting room.

 

[teaboy]

The 'other' sitting room doesn't have any chairs in.

 

[BenElton'sBrother]

You can't beat a nice comfy sofa in the front room.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

The way I see it

Lounges have settees
Living Rooms have sofas
Sitting Rooms have couches

 

[Hilton]

Front room