What do you call it?

What do you call it??

LOL-just curious as to what your couch is referred to....

Also for fun do you call your living room a living room or front room??

I call it a living room. Though really it's a living room, dining room, exercise room, foyer, etc.

Originally Posted by MoochNNoodles

I call it a living room. Though really it's a living room, dining room, exercise room, foyer, etc.

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Ok, and what about your couch??

both (couch and sofa) and both living / front room

I always said couch and front room back home but everyone here says living room and sofa so I will say either

I use both couch and sofa, but whatever it is, it's in my living room.

It's called a couch and a Living Room.

Well I call it a couch althought I do sometimes say sofa! But it is in my living room

I call it a couch, my dad always called it a davenport. The living room is the living room.

Here in this part of the South- it's Living Room and Couch

When I was a kid in the midwest, it was couch or davenport. Now, I call it a sofa or once in awhile, couch.

I've only heard the word divan used a few times and never out here. Where is divan used?

And living room, if I had one

I say sofa and couch with about equal frequency -- but my grandparents called it a davenport, and I've always liked that. If you say it today, though, most people have no idea what you're talking about!

I also say living room and front room interchangeably -- even though the "front" room in our house is a dining room. And I call our breakfast nook the "new room," because my grandparents built a breakfast nook onto their house before I was even born, and it was forever after called "the new room." Tradition is nice!

Originally Posted by Bonnie1965

When I was a kid in the midwest, it was couch or davenport. Now, I call it a sofa or once in awhile, couch.

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couch most of the time,
Sofa hmm was for the one that was in the living room that no one was allowed to sit on.
and daven port was used by my grandmother.

Like a true midwesterner raised in a trilevel, I call the one with the TV in it the family room and the one next to the foyer the living room (you know those rooms nobody is allowed to use... though we did).

I have a futon now, but I think of it as the couch.

What's a settee?

Here it's called a couch and it's in the front room. The whole set (chairs, couch, etc) is a chesterfield.

Originally Posted by Moz

Here it's called a couch and it's in the front room. The whole set (chairs, couch, etc) is a chesterfield.

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Ha! We had the couch and the barcaloungers. I always wondered what a chesterfield was I think I thought it was some sort of bureau or corner cupboard.

I voted couch, but I probably say sofa every now and then too. I don't have either - I've got a LoveSac = so I am not sure.

But my LoveSac is in my Living Room - I know that!

The chesterfield is in the living room.

The lounge is in the lounge room.

My family all says couch, though I tend to say sofa for the loveseat, lol

We also say "living room" for the main room upstairs, but the main room downstairs (we kids always used it more often; the parents had the living room upstairs with it's big tv, we had the room downstairs with our own tv) is called the family room. Even now when nobody really uses it anymore, we still call it the family room, lol. And we used to have a spare room, but we tore down one wall so that the bedroom next to it would be twice as big. I still call that end of the room the "spare room," lol

It's the couch or 'settee' (I think thats more English ) whilst the living room is exactly that