I use neither, settee here in my house!

 

Oh no LOL!

 

This debate may get even more confusing, where are the couches/sofas/settees kept?? Is it the lounge, the living room, the front room I am sure there is more terms available. Although front room is probably an English thing within old terrace houses!

 

Sitting Room, Morning Room, Drawing Room................................

 

We're a 'settee in the front room' family

J

 

i have sofa in the living room - the "front room" is being used for the something else (clinic) so we use the dining room as our living space and have had to adopt the "living room" phrase so as to avoid confusion...

Growing up...it was a settee in the front room!

 

Grandad used to have a Chesterfield and a Chaise Lounge

 

Ah bless, lots of people call a Chaise Longue a Chaise Lounge, I think it used to be one of Les Dawson's phrases....................some even used to have a Chesterfield ON a Chaise Longue (old make of ****)

 

i only have one room in my flat where i can put my sofa / settee , i have a 2 seater and a 3 seater

 

I say sofa. I also call the living room the Living Room and not the Front Room.

 

Tongue in cheek....

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/07/...010/07/27/housewife-‘distraught’-after-her-lounge-is-downgraded-to-living-room/

 

We have 2 sofa's and they are in our Living room - but we only have one open plan room downstairs so can't really say front room or lounge
Do sometimes use the word Settee - don't think I've ever said couch
Weirdly at my mums we say front room even though their lounge is at the back of the house

 

We use sofa mainly, on the odd occasion settee We would never use couch and they would be in the front room

 

SOFAAAAAAA

 

I believe 'couch' is American which is why you won't see it used on this predominately UK based forum.

It's sofa to me. Never used the word settee in my life!

 

I believe 'couch' is American which is why you won't see it used on this predominately UK based forum.

When I was a child, I always remember referring to sitting on the 'couch' It wasn't until I was a teenager that I was even remotely aware of anything American, so I didn't pick it up from there

Nowadays though, I am more likely to refer to the 'sofa'

 

We are a settee family too never refered to it any different 0.o

 

Here I was thinking settee was a northern thing. Doesn't look that way!

So my settee is in the front room, but in my other two houses it was in the living room!

But whether living room or front room they both have a big light!

 

it's a settee in our house. i've just evicted one from the dining room and replaced it with a chair, and i'm getting a new one for the living room

 

Settee in the Living Room. Very occasionally I might call it couch/sitting room, but it is only occassionally.

 

Just had a thought about the word couch - i do use it but not in a domestic setting.
Dr's, psychiatrists etc have couches and of course there is the infamous casting couch

 

I have a settee in the front room and a settee in the back room/dining room.

I come from a long standing family of settee owners.

 

We have a sofa in the living room, although this house is a three story townhouse so our living room is on the 1st floor and we often just refer to it as upstairs.

 

My squab is in the parlour!!


(sorry...I had too!)

 

Settee and it's in the lounge. Sometimes it might be the sofa in the living room. No wonder people say English is so hard to learn!

 

Same here

 

Sofa in the sitting room here, is front room more of a northern thing ? As I've never heard it in real life (softy southerner alert here )

 

As I've never heard it in real life (softy southerner alert here )

Its a tiny terrace thing. You have a front room and a back room with a kitchen and/or bathroom added on after indoor plumbing became popular!

 

We have a sofa in the living room, though sometimes we call it the den. It’s definitely not a formal living room, others might call it the family room. It’s actually an open house plan, so the kitchen and living room are all one large area.
I’ve always heard sofa (both parents are originally from north of the Mason-Dixon line) and only heard it called a couch until I moved to the south. No one says sofa here, it’s always couch.

 

I have a sofa in my Living room. I've never called it a couch because I'm not american. as a child i was always corrected if i used american words for things

 

Sofa in the living room here