General Chat

We have a lounge upstairs and sitting room downstairs as we`re in a split level flat. Rosalyn

When we moved to this house, (in 1996), my children were 5 and 2, we moved from a 2 up 2 down to a much bigger house spread over three floors. One lounge was mainly Red and the other mainly Blue. One day my five year old shouted out 'mummy where are you?' so I said in the 'Red Room'. Now almost 10 years later, we still call them the 'Red Room' and the 'Blue Room', (even though they are now painted different colours!). Jubletroop

we got the living room at the front, dining room (with no dining table, and we never eat in here) in the middle and the sunroom (conservatory) on the back of the house

The room at the front is now a play room/2nd tv room. The room at the back, I call the front room which always causes confusion but what I mean is its the main room. We have a couch sometimes called a sofa. The back called front room is quite long so the end bit is called the patio door room. No wonder my husband can never find anything!!

When I was a child, my parents called it the 'sitting room', but it wasn't downstairs - we lived in a fourth-floor flat. When I got my first house, it had a 'through lounge/diner' in estate agent-speak, which described my second house as having a 'separate lounge and dining room'. My third house was back to the 'through lounge/diner', my fourth was back to 'separae lounge and dining room'. My present house has 3 rooms downstairs - a dining room, a studio (for art's sake!) and a room which I refer to as the 'living room', so I can use the old Groucho Marx joke - 'Let's go into the living room - and start living!' (As you said last night, Daniel, 'a sick, sick mind'! LOL) CB >|<

We call ours the lounge... but I wont let anyone use it very often!... I keep telling the kids, itr may be a lounge.. but it is not for lounging around in! LOL! Maz x

mum's is lounge - she just uses it for tv really and the room she 'lives' in is the kitchen, cooks in the 'back kitchen' or scullery lol, oh she has a front room as well - not used! in-law's have front room (tv etc), back room (with dining table) and conservatory (grandkids use it mainly!) here I usually say living room I think - 3 piece, tv, dining table etc. other room is known as the playroom cos that was the intention when we moved here. has computer and sofabed and toy cupboards. so can't watch tv and be on pooter at same time grrrrr! oh and its a settee here! Maz. XX

Bec, please come back from the dark side, Bruiser doesn't fit with the picture I have of you in my head!!!!!! I'm off for the afternoon now, talk to you all tonight I expect. Vivienne

When I was a child, our main room was called the Dining Room. There was no other general use room though, just kitchen, bathroom, hall, and bedrooms in a bungalow.

Hello Vivienne! The house used to be the Mill House, it was three storeys and my sister and I had the top floor to ourselves :-) I'm now Bruiser Bec due to my allegiance to the DARK SIDE in the battle against all things pink and fluffy! lol becx

Its called the living room in our house. When we moved into this house which is fairly old it had a 35ft livingroom, and a tiny kitchen so my partner shortened the livingroom and extended the kitchen so have a bigger kitchen. Yvonne

My main downstairs room is called the Bedroom! Livingroom is upstairs....lol BC

Hi Mandy, It's Couch in my house!!!!!!! Vivienne

Hi Bec, That house sounds lovely, we rented a house along the same lines when I lived in NZ, had fourteen rooms in all. I've missed something along the way. How did Bella Bec become Bruiser Bec please? Vivienne

It was always 'lounge' when I was growing up, and the name has just stuck now I've got my own home. Mandy :) PS: Daniel, this led me to another question. Is it sofa or settee? lol

In one of my old houses we had a 'family room' and a 'sitting room'. The family room was used most of the time and the sitting room was saved for special occasions. It was such a lovely house... it had a study with a separate front door to it, a cloakroom, a massive scullery, my mother had a dressing room attached to her bedroom and the garden was massive with a stream running through it and 2 bridges... Becx (now living in a one bedroom flat!)

For my Mum, an Eastender it was the front room but my first husband's family had a lounge, so lounge it has been for me ever since. A little bit of snobishness maybe!!!!!!!!!! Vivienne

I have a livingroom and a frontroom. PC is in livingroom, so I spent more time time in here. Marion

It's a living room here too.

Daniel I don't have a name for mine if some visit I just say oh go in there how common is that Howardxx