Talk:Living room

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In the US, living rooms and family rooms are entirely different parts of a house. These articles should not be merged under one name or the other; they should only be merged if it is into a neutrally titled article such as "rooms in a house." Basically, there's no reason to merge these articles.

I wish to raise a couple of errors with regard to the article.

Generally, most houses up to a certain era (say, 1950s built) would have a living room and a sitting room/parlour. In most houses, the living room was at the rear, by the kitchen, and was where the family sat on a daily basis. The sitting room, parlour or 'front room' was, as its familiar name suggests, at the front of the house and was generally kept clean and tidy, and generally closed, as this is the room where guests were entertained.

I agree that the terms 'sitting room' and 'living room' are now more or less synonymous, but I also feel that this difference is an important one to mention.

I disagree that the term 'parlour' came about because it was where the dead were laid out. Yes, the dead were (and still frequently are) laid out in the front room, but I submit that 'parlour' is a corruption of the French verb 'parler'... In fact, a quick check in the OED gives its etymology as from French 'parlur', 'place for speaking'. SeHT 23:53, 5 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

A correction with a source? Jump in, man. Improve the article. NickelShoe (Talk) 00:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Is there a difference between living room and drawing room? I'm not from the UK nor US etc where houses are like what they are there. I'm from Singapore (Asia) and the typical housing apartments here are tiny and built on top of each other in tall buildings called flats (so we have no chimney, no lawn, no patio (what's a patio anyway?), or parlor, or porch etc.) These sort of "rooming terms" confuse me a lot since I don't have any examples to relate to. --Secretss (talk) 18:17, 17 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

In the UK the living room is essentially the consolidation of the parlor and drawing room and they are AFAIK considered the same. Most houses built in the UK will have a seperate dining room before having a seperate parlor/Drawing room. A Patio is a paved section of a garden normally with furniture on it.(Morcus (talk) 15:00, 20 May 2008 (UTC))Reply

This would be good if a citation can be found. The article on Edward W. Bok claims that he coined the term living room. This would be an interesting fact for the article if we can find a citation to support this. ike9898 (talk) 21:31, 12 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

I changed the history of the transition from parlor to living room to meet with the version that can be found in the peer reviewed literature. The versions of the transition story that are tied to the pandemic flu are weak since they come about forty years into the transition in terminology. The reaction against Victorian decorating norms can both be historically verified with reference to women's magazines from the time period and other primary research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.21.37.118 (talk) 01:38, 8 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

In England at least - I can't talk for the rest of the UK - the term "lounge", although common, still has, in many circles, irretrievably "bourgeois" connotations - it is quite easy to burn your social boats by referring to your "lovely lounge"! A "lounge" is more likely to refer to a common sitting room in an hotel than a room in a private house.

Conversely, referring to the main reception in most modern homes as the "drawing-room" would be seen as impossibly pretentious, as such rooms were - and are - typically larger and more opulent than is currently the case - a showcase for the family's best furniture, pictures, objets d'arte, and so forth. The term "sitting-room" or, if the main reception room includes a dining area - "living-room" would be preferable. See the Wikipedia discussion of U and non-U English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by EnglishBriarRose (talk • contribs) 23:44, 3 November 2012 (UTC)Reply

Since Drawing room and Living room are the same, and Living room is more common, Drawing room should be merged to Living room. 68.195.141.2 (talk) 22:00, 18 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

• Oppose They have quite different functions, even if a drawing room is rare today and most people live around one room. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
• Oppose better left as a historical term. I have tweaked to clarify the relationship. Johnbod (talk) 23:24, 18 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
• Oppose They are not the same. --78.70.221.119 (talk) 06:31, 7 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

See the corresponding articles in Spanish. I want them to be merged too.68.195.141.2 (talk) 17:13, 19 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

What relevance do the Spanish articles have here? Either as a location for you to advocate their merger, or as an influence on these two articles? If anything, the fact that the Spanish Wikipedia also has two separate articles would suggest keeping them distinct. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:27, 19 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Salón should be the Spanish article for Living room, because Salón translates to Living room.68.195.141.2 (talk) 18:28, 19 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

• CLOSED: I removed the tags, as we're into a third month with only opposes, apart from the nom. Johnbod (talk) 15:41, 7 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

The "Architectural Styles of Living Rooms" reads like a general listing of architectural styles and the reference cited is similarly very general and does not address living rooms specifically. This section would be more relevant if it directly addressed how living rooms changed through time. Ovallerand (talk) 21:11, 10 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

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