What do you call your "front room"?

[moomoo]

My front room is the dining room and the back room is the living room.

 

[gentlegreen]

My plan is for the front "reception area" to be a bit like a farmhouse kitchen - (though most of the kitchen will remain in the back) - I'll have toaster, kettle and fridge in it ... though who knows if I stay here, the cooker and sink may migrate too ....

My back room is actually an AV room - TV/ HIFI with some degree of soundproofing. I like to look out over the back garden ..

luckily my neighbours tend to live in their front rooms and dine in their back rooms so we don't disturb each other too much.

I doubt many these days have the "luxury" of a silly room with doileys and antimacassars and a piano with the legs covered to entertain the vicar.

 

[the_ferry_man]

It's not about geography, it's about class - come on!

it is?

where does that leave me with my backroom?

 

[danny la rouge]

It's not about geography, it's about class - come on!

Well, geography might come into it, but not elevations and layout.

 

[geminisnake]

I call the front room the boy's bedroom Our living room is at the back of the house.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Sitting room. I can't read ''lounge'' without hearing ''leeeeeeeeooooooooownge''.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Well, I call it that, but you might call it one of the alternatives...

Usually front room, but sometimes living room.

 

[gentlegreen]

Sitting room. I can't read ''lounge'' without hearing ''leeeeeeeeooooooooownge''.

 

[butterfly child]

Front room, living room, or other room.

Trouble is, we have a back/living/other room too.

 

[maldwyn]

drawing room at the front - withdrawing room at the back.

 

[PursuedByBears]

My front room is the dining room and the back room is the living room.

What she said ^

 

[danny la rouge]

I call the front room the boy's bedroom Our living room is at the back of the house.

Again with the literals!

I'm talking about Front Room, not the room at the front of your house (if your house has more than one room to its width).

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[butterfly child]

Again with the literals!

I'm talking about Front Room, not the room at the front of your house (if your house has more than one room to its width).

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We call both the room at the front of the house AND the back of the house "front room".

Although sometimes, the rear front room is called the computer room or the music room. We do have a computer room, but that's called the mungle room.

 

[Diamond Dog]

I call it a front-room, and I call my dessert 'afters', 'coz I was brought up propa working-class.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

We have two rooms with sofa, armchairs and TV; one has a wall-full of books, a piano and a carpet. We call this the drawing room, though I can't remember why. The other room is an open-plan kitchen/dining-room/sitting-room which is known as 'the other end' if we are in the drawing room, or 'this end' if we are there.

They are both at the front of the house

 

[_angel_]

I don't have a front room so it's a living room (plus it's at the back anyway)

My mum and dad have two reception rooms so they are, imaginatively, the front room and the back room. The front room is the one that gets sat in and the back room has the dining table.

 

[girasol]

Our front room, i.e. the room at the front of the house is called 'kitchen'

 

[Cobbles]

Crap question - each floor in my house has at least one room at the front.

 

[beeboo]

I call it a front-room, and I call my dessert 'afters', 'coz I was brought up propa working-class.

We had tea and afters, but we had a lounge because we were working class made good

 

[Diamond Dog]

We had tea and afters, but we had a lounge because we were working class made good

Well, my auntie's household was even more dedicated to workin'-class values than mine; they called it their Front Room even though it was at the back of the house.

I doff my flat-cap in respect.

 

[northernhord]

We used to call ours simply 'the front room' other folk though who lived in the scummy Victorian streets where I was bought up called their's the Parlour.

 

[danny la rouge]

Crap question - each floor in my house has at least one room at the front.

Please note the inverted commas round the term Front Room in the thread title, and subsequent discussion.

The location of the room is irrelevant. It is, as butchers correctly says, a class thing.

 

[skyscraper101]

At my Mum's its definately the front room. At mine it's the lounge.

Sitting/Living Room sounds a bit odd to me. But thats just me.

 

[dodgepot]

the front room.

 

[Cobbles]

The room you have your TV and sofa in. If you have such things.

The only room with both a TV and a sofa is the "TV room" (although one of the bedrooms that has a TV also has a chaise longue, it's hardly a sofa).

 

[dodgepot]

when i lived with my parents, i called it the front room, although it was at the side of the house and backed onto the back garden.

 

[Cloo]

I'm surprised lounge is in such a minority

I grew up in house where it was at the back, so maybe that's why I'm used to that!

 

[Ms T]

We have an upstairs sitting room/living room/lounge and one downstairs as well.

 

[keithy]

call it 'the room'

 

[Structaural]

I call mine the cod-front room