Grew up in the north-west, in a two-up, two-down and it was always the front room. When I was little it was synonymous with living room for me. I only realised it was not the same thing when my gran got annoyed with me for calling her living room the front room (she lived in a bungalow and the living room was at the back of the house). Nowadays still call it the front room back home, even though we moved house when I was 10 and it’s no longer technically at the front. But anywhere else I’d say living room. And it’s always been a sofa.
Grew up in the north-west, in a two-up, two-down and it was always the front room. When I was little it was synonymous with living room for me. I only realised it was not the same thing when my gran got annoyed with me for calling her living room the front room (she lived in a bungalow and the living room was at the back of the house). Nowadays still call it the front room back home, even though we moved house when I was 10 and it’s no longer technically at the front. But anywhere else I’d say living room. And it’s always been a sofa.