Family Room vs Living Room

Mickygg

Absolutely as others have said its just a room and will describe it best as to who they think the main target audience is. It could be called a family room, possible bedroom, study, reception room, lounge etc.

Don't worry about what they are called just see it as a room and what you would use it for.

Pumpkim

As a family we were searching for a house with such a space for all the reasons mentioned already. We've found one and I can't wait to have my 'fancy' living room as a sanctuary while I chuck the rest of them in the family room :rotfl:
Had it just been the two of us we would use the space for media and music I imagine, in the current house the third bedroom houses all that stuff (one child) and in our previous two-bed (no child) the second bedroom housed it all. In the next house part of the large garage is also converted so that will be the music and media space. I'm now contemplating how to use bedroom three...

HHarry

It's just names. After finishing our extension we have a dining room, family room and reading room - because that's what we do in each room.
Having a reading room sounds pretentious, but it is stuffed full of books, so really is the best description.

New owners can call it the dungeon for all I care!

missprice

Yeah its just a name. I have a different set up as in we have no spare rooms downstairs, although we could reinstate a wall and have a separate dining room. Yet we have two spare bedrooms upstairs. One is officially the office, made redundant now due to tablet computers, the other is storage for all the carp that OH "needs" . The storage bedroom could easily be a dressing room, the office could and may yet become a library.
But officially they are bedrooms.

KiKi

I live alone and have two lounges. One is white, bright, watch lots of TV in there, spend most of my time in there - lovely room when the sun's out, but it's cooler and has access to the garden. The other is darker, with a TV and sofa and dining table where I sit and tend to work. I watch TV in there when the weather's horrible and I don't want to see the rain and grey outside! It's a good lounge for a cold Winter's evening.

societys_child

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

I use mine for strangling goats.

Yes indeed, Wednesdays bible meetings, Friday night satanic worship, there's also the regular adult weekends to consider . . . A Room for all Seasons :rotfl:

ProDave

We are building a new house.

At the insistance of SWMBO we are having the modern take on a "familly room" that combines the kitchen, a dining space and a lounge space and tv etc. Most "trendy" new houses seem to be built this way.

But I have insisted also on having a "snug lounge" well away from the kitchen. I just don't think I can tolerate sitting down to watch tv or listen to music with the fridge, and worse still the dishwasher in the same room.

As far as I am concerned the familly room is just a kitchen / diner.

pinklady21

We have a 3 bedroom house, with one bedroom set up as an office / study with a desk, bookshelves and a sofa in it. When Estate Agents came to look around before we put it on the market, one said that we couldn't leave the office as an office, as people would never be able to envisage a bed in there so would think of the house as only a 2 bedroom!
While I didn't say it, I did think "well if they are so daft that they can't imagine a bed in there, possibly we won't be wanting to deal with them!" that is not a poke at the OP, simply it seems that in that agent's experience, some viewers lack imagination,hence why the second reception room is shown as a lounge in the example given in the OP.