What Is Living Room
Living room, front room, lounge, sitting room...what do you call this communal space in your home?
According to John Lewis & Partners' The Things We do In Our Living Rooms (and the things we wish we didn't) report, the living room is the most popular name that represents this space, closely followed by the lounge.
If it's always been an ongoing debate in your household, history backs it up too. 'The main communal space of the home has been popularly called the living room or lounge since the 1930s,' explains Vanessa Meade, Curator of Exhibitions & Interpretation at The Geffrye Museum of the Home. 'Previously it was often called the parlour or drawing room, while up until the mid-1600s, it was known as the hall.'
From John Lewis' customer research based on geographical location, Scotland, the North East and Yorkshire call this space the living room, but those in the South West are more likely to call it the sitting room. Meanwhile in Wales, more than one in three people refer to it as the lounge.
Carolyn Barber
See the top results below:
- Living room - 39 per cent
- Lounge - 30 per cent
- Sitting room - 16 per cent
- Front room - 5 per cent
- Family room - 4 per cent
- TV room - 1 per cent
- Drawing room - 1 per cent
- Other - 4 per cent
The name we have for this family space also depends on age. The younger you are, the more likely you are to call it the living room, as two thirds of millennials do. But the older you are, the more likely you are to call it the sitting room. Those who are middle-aged (35-54 years) are most likely to call it the lounge.
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Watching TV is the activity nearly all of us do in this space, but despite this, only 1 per cent of those asked call it the TV room. And interestingly enough, if you own your home you are more likely to refer to it as the lounge, but someone renting is much more likely to call it the living room.
Does this ring true for you?
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Source: https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/decorate/living-room/a26794951/living-room-lounge-name/
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