Living room

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Living room

A living room, also known as sitting room, lounge room or lounge (in the United Kingdom and Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
), is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
or other activities. The word Lounge is from the Latin, it was brought over later on by the French.

In modern home

Home

A home is a place of residence or refuge. It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and be able to store personal property....
s and apartment

Apartment

An apartment is a self-contained House unit that occupies only part of a Apartment building. Apartments may be owned or rented .A common alternative term for apartment is flat....
s, the living room has replaced the old fashioned parlor. In the 19th century, the parlor was the room in the house where the recently deceased were laid out before their funeral.

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A living room, also known as sitting room, lounge room or lounge (in the United Kingdom and Australia

Australia

Television

Home

A home is a place of residence or refuge. It is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and be able to store personal property....
s and apartment

Apartment

Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
s and builders to strip the parlor of its burial and mourning associations. A typical western living room will be furnished with a sofa

Sofa

Sofa may refer to:In general:* A piece of furniture also called a couchIn music:* Any of four bands of overlapping eras:** Sofa , a post-indie band active since the late 1990s...
, chair

Chair

A chair is used to sit on, commonly for use by one person. Chairs often have the seat raised above floor level, supported by four legs. A back or arm rests in a stool, or when raised up, a bar stool or high chair ....
s, occasional table

Table (furniture)

A table is a item of furniture comprising a surface supported by a base or legs. It may be used to hold articles such as food at a convenient or comfortable height when sitting, and is therefore often used in conjunction with chairs....
s, a television or stereo equipment, and bookshelves

Bookcase

A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture, almost always with horizontal shelves, used to store books. A bookcase frequently has doors that may be closed to protect the books, bookshelves are open-fronted....
, as well as other pieces of furniture

Furniture

Furniture is the mass noun for the movable objects which may support the human body , provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground....
. Traditionally, a sitting room in the United Kingdom would have a fireplace. In Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, people traditionally sat on tatami

Tatami

mats are a traditional type of Japanese flooring. Made of woven soft rush straw, and traditionally packed with rice straw , tatami are made in individual mats of uniform size and shape, bordered by brocade or plain cloth....
instead of chairs, but Western style decor is also common these days.

In the United States, sometimes the living room is reserved for more formal and quiet entertaining while a separate recreation room

Recreation room

A recreation room is a room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use. The term is common in the United States, but is less common in the United Kingdom where the preferred term is games room....
or family room

Family room

A family room is an informal, all-purpose room in a house similar to a living room. The family room is designed to be a place where family and guests gather for group recreation like talking, reading, watching TV, and other family activities....
is used for more casual activities and drinking. In recent years, the term "great room

Great room

The term great room denotes a room space within an abode which combines the specific functions of several of the more traditional room spaces into a singular unified space....
" has come to be used to denote the family room, especially if it is open to the kitchen, and may feature a vaulted ceiling.

The term front room can also be used to describe a living room, because in many homes the front door opens into the living room.