General Chat

I call it a lounge.

Perhaps it came to be mixed up with the "Couchette" a form of bed.**M** :-S

I'm from S Wales where we called it a settee and some called it a couch.

Ive lived in the East Midlands for 32 years where most people call it a sofa and some a settee.


Sallie.

I'm from oop north and I have got one three seater settee for the black cat,and a two seater for the ginger cat,OH perches in the armchair,so that leaves the dining table for me :-D :-D :-D

I'm from London and always said 3 piece suite.

Carol

I come from the north originally and would call it a sofa, but maybe I have been living in the Midlands too long!! I think my parents called it a settee.

Kay

I'm from Cornwall, later Devon.

Always as a child the family called it a couch .....If we weren't feeling very well I can hear my mother saying ,"go and lie on the couch" !!

It was a three piece suite ..

Only when I went to London to live I see it known as a settee or thee piece suite ,


Marilyn .....

I come from the north originally and would call it a sofa, but maybe I have been living in the Midlands too long!! I think my parents called it a settee.

Kay

Here a divan is a proper bed, with no footboard, only a headboard and has an upholstered base under the mattress.

I'm from the North and we all call it a couch up here.

Caz

We aint fussy... some call it sofa, some a couch, my father called it a settee and then there are some that call it a divan.... and yes my aunt and a chaise lounge...

all sorts here...

But sometimes North Island does use different terminology from the South Islanders eg a small beach house/holiday home in the north is called a bach and in the South they call it a crib.... I had never heard of a static until I came on GR...

Persie

Am I the only Couch sitter here - we called it the couch in the lounge!

Sappho

Thank goodness, Ingrid in Oz, I was wondering which brave colonial would introduce our furniture into the conversation.

We have a lounge suite. It has a two or three seat "couch" and two lounge chairs. Not to be mixed up with lounge suit, which is what the blokes wear to a formal occasion. The chairs can be rockers or recliners. And rockers or recliners are also sold as stand alone furniture items.

We also have sofas which are just the two or three seater part of the lounge suite, and are often sofa beds.

Our lounge suite goes into our lounge room, or sometimes living room.

I have over the years called it all 3 and here s another we use 'lounge'
:-) cheers

Usually settee, sometimes sofa, never couch

I am a couch potato originally from up North who sits on a settee down South.

Vera

Barbara
Looks like it was...

Go to Google images and just type in the name.


Gwyn

Was Put-U-up a trade name?

We had a front room which was used on Sundays and Christmas and for me to practice piano. There were two massive leather chairs and no settee. The vicar went in there if he called, but the last one that came here sat in the kitchen with us for a cup of tea.
Doesnt seem to be any rhyme or reason for use of any of the three words. Bed settee was our name for a Put-u-up. Surprising the differences.

im from the north east and its a settee, somtimes i say sofa, when litleman is jumping on it n hes been asked to get down lol,

never a couch