Living room or front room?

[Pappy]

It was always the front room in our old house on the hill, then somewhere along the years, I started calling it the living room. What’s your preference?

 

[Aunt Bea]

Growing up it was always the front room or the parlor.

Today I call it the living room.

 

[jujube]

My grandparents had a "front room", maybe because it was a "railroad flat" with the living room being the room in the front, the first room you came to when you walked in the front door.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

We always called it the living room but my Grandma called hers the parlor. All the furniture had fancy crocheted doilies on the back and arms of the chairs. My dad hated them. He would say,"when you get up out of the chair you always ended up wearing one."

 

[win231]

Why do we call it a "Living Room" when we don't have a "Dying Room?"

 

[bingo]

front room

 

[peppermint]

We have a living room when you come into the house....And another living room at the
back of the house....and another room sort of a living room in another room....
So we have many Couch's...We do have a dining room and 3 bedrooms....
Oh we do have a Kitchen….And a Laundry Room and a bathroom.....
And another bathroom....(That was silly)...hahaha

 

[Kadee]

My home has a lounge room and a Family room .The lounge is part way down the passage and the family room is a combined area with the kitchen and dinning room at the back part of our home
My grandparents had a “front room“ their home was only 4 rooms and a sleep out
It had two bedrooms / kitchen / and the front room ,the sleep out was part of the house but it was an unlined room not much more than a shed really ...no inside bathroom that was out in the old tin shed

 

[asp3]

I've always used living room because it wasn't always the front room in the houses I grew up in. Now we live in an old Victorian that has living room that could definitely be called the front room. We also have a sitting room just behind the living room. It's the first time we've had something like that. We've had rooms we called the family room or the rumpus room but this my first sitting room.

 

[Repondering]

We always called it the living room but it served mostly as a passage from the front door to the rest of the house.....and as a place to display our best furniture and decorative objects. We did more of our living in the family room and kitchen.

 

[Sassycakes]

We've always called it the living room.

 

[MarciKS]

We always called it a living room.

 

[Ceege]

Living room for me, also.

 

[Duster]

We call ours the Den. The room on the front of our house is a sunroom, which acts as a living area and dining room 3 seasons of the year.

 

[Autumn]

When I was a kid, we had a living room and a parlor. The parlor was strictly for company, enter at your own risk. The living room was where we watched TV, read, talked and just hung out.

Now, I just have a living room. I've noticed that in many new homes, there's a living room and a family room. Is the living room the new parlor?

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

Growing up,ours was always called the living room. But when you walked in the front door,you walked into a huge entry,so the living room was really not in the front of the house. Downstairs in the basement,we had a rumpus room,which became my bedroom when I was a teen.

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

Now, I just have a living room. I've noticed that in many new homes, there's a living room and a family room. Is the living room the new parlor?

When I have had houses with both a living room and a family room,the living room became like a museum.Nobody ever went in there and it was just an extra room to dust and vacuum. I liked just having what we called a "great room."

 

[Pink Biz]

I use them both interchangeably now, although I used to think front room sounded old fashioned and rarely used it when I was younger.

 

[Duster]

I have not heard anyone utter "Rumpus Room" in years! I hope your folks stopped calling it that after it became your bedroom. Sounds a bit naughty!

My in laws had a formal living room and a formal dining room that were pristine and never used. The funny thing was that as the family grew we ran out of room at the kitchen table. They kept cramming chairs around the corners, which made no sense to me. There was a large table available with 8 more places. I once made the mistake of saying, "The Queen called, she can't make it to dinner, we can use the dining room". Boy did I get some icy stares! LOL.

When we sold the house, those formal rooms became a liability~no one wanted them! Only when we moved furniture out of them and called the rooms a "bonus room and an office" could buyers see the potential.

 

[Keesha]

Front living room

 

[Keesha]

When I have had houses with both a living room and a family room,the living room became like a museum.Nobody ever went in there and it was just an extra room to dust and vacuum. I liked just having what we called a "great room."

One of our current neighbours is this way. They never use their living room. In fact, I’ve known quite a few people who had museum like living rooms which I never understood. Isn’t that like saying, “ we care more about our guests and their opinion of us more than we care about our own comfort?”

A friend of mine in high school lived with her parents who had plasticized their entire living room. There was plastic on every single piece of furniture. Every cushion. Every pillow. It was real comfy visiting. Obvious sarcasm

 

[Gary O']

It was always the front room

Growing up, it was called the front room
Then....it became the living room

When my folks bought the big house, I have no idea what they called that room
Us kids were made to stay in the 'get back down there' room

We were, however, let upstairs for Christmas photos
After that was over, they quickly led us thru the gilded ropes and back to the basement

 

[Aunt Marg]

We always referred to it as the "living room (childhood home)".

 

[PamfromTx]

We've always called it the living room.

 

[PopsnTuff]

The living room for us too....