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)
- A correction with a source? Jump in, man. Improve the article. NickelShoe (Talk) 00:35, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
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)
- 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))
I just pulled up this page and noticed there are two dogs engaged in intercourse in the background of the picture used here. Is that nescessary ? Dudeness10 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 02:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 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)
