Kitty Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Mummy told me never to say the word 'lounge' (there you are - I've just said). The word or words to use is/are 'drawing room'. Splendid - that has made it frightfully clear. What does one want to talk about in my drawing room? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillan Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Ere do youz have to be posh to come in ere wot with it being a drawing room and all? Whats wrong with the parlor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vervialle Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Cathy, when I was a girl we were only allowed in the lounge on Sundays, we always had to take our shoes off and were never allowed a drink in there, I hated it as it was a place where you had to keep quiet whilst the news was on the black and white television,it was a grown up place and I always wanted my lounge to be a family room where you can put your feet up on the settee, I suppose I have rebbelled against the orderly childhood that I endured in the "Lounge" so perhaps the forum should have named this new section "the family room" it sounds more inviting and you would certainly be able to put your feet up and let yourself go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted May 6, 2006 Author Share Posted May 6, 2006 Can't one let oneself go in the drawing room? Would be fun, what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vervialle Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 I think the drawing room sounds quite posh, but my sister always calls her lounge the drawing room, but she has a family room as well, where did the name drawing room orriginate from.I am in historical mode tonight, forgive me.But in reply to your question, yes I suppose one could let ones self go in the drawing room.Do you think others might join us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 I think the word drawing room comes from 'withdrawing room' where I guess (and it really is a guess) that the ladies withdrew to after dinner while the men enjoyed a cigar.'Lounge', [:(]worse, Lounge room [:(] [:(], sitting room ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted May 6, 2006 Author Share Posted May 6, 2006 The sofa (chintz, of course) is my drawing room is rather large so others could join us... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted May 6, 2006 Author Share Posted May 6, 2006 Etiquette note: Mummy told me always to say 'sofa' and NEVER 'settee'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vervialle Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 My mother always called it the lounge suite, how posh is that!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 whot - not a three piece ?[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vervialle Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Have just looked up history of the drawing room in georgian times it was upstairs then in the victorian era it moved downstairs to the front of the house, sometimes known asthe sitting room or frontparlour from the word parler that means place where guests are received to talk, so yes perhaps this section needs to be called the drawing room.Incidently the info on it also said woman did withdraw to it after dinner , did not mention cigars, but my O.H.would have enjoyed a hamlet with the boys whilst I was in the drawingroom.It is a shame we have lost these wonderful names for rooms in our modern language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 "My mother always called it the lounge suite, how posh is that!!!!!"Not very posh at all according to Nancy Mitford. From memory, I think she said that a lounge had potted palms and existed only in hotels.Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Was that 'U' and 'Non- U'. It was all a bit tongue in cheek...She was the decent Mitford Girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owens88 Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 [quote user="Hoddy"] a lounge had potted palms [/quote]Can you smoke them ? Would that make it a smoking lounge then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owens88 Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 [quote user="Hoddy"]"My mother always called it the lounge suite, how posh is that!!!!!"Not very posh at all according to Nancy Mitford. From memory, I think she said [/quote]Did you meet her in France ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 [quote user="Owens88"]Did you meet her in France ?[/quote]In this section, if she met Nancy in Nairobi, it wouldn't matter, 'cos here anything goes (except abuse etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 When I first moved from the city to my grandmothers cottage as a child there was one room which contained a roaring coal fire and a tin tub in from containing my collier grandfather, a sink (or bosh as we call it in Wales) a table, a 'setee' a chair and a b and w tv.Full family integration and by the way my grandfather would be asking for the soap in welsh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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