My Nan always called it..

My Nannie had a scullery and she had been in service. She also had a coal hole under the stairs where her singer sewing machine lived (the coal was outside in the yard).Her kitchen was what we would call the living room and she also had a parlour which was never used.She lived in a tiny terraced house yet one room was kept for "good"!

My gran rented a small terraced house with a very small scullery, with a cooker and sink and one cold water tap, the only source is water in the house. to go to the toilet meant a trip outside to a shed with a plank of wood aceoss a hole and a bucket of water by the side with bits of cut up newspaper on a nail. London circa 1960. She lived there until she died early 80's, in the same conditions.
My house was similar until we moved out of london .
Our children and grandchildren couldnt begin to imagine just how hard life was in thosel days.

We had a huge, ancient, floor-to-ceiling dark oak cupboard on our landing which was always called the "kist cupboard" by Mum. I think "kist" might be a Scottish word although we have Irish ancestry
so maybe it could be Irish? Anyone know?

Our living room ...

Our living was always called 'the front room' even though it was at the back of the house.

My granny had a scullery where food was prepared and cooked, and the room she called the kitchen was the dining room containing a huge table which converted to a billiard table.
My childhood home had a 'glory hole' under the stairs. I read on GN once that the term now has a different meaning, with advice not to Google it!

My nan's rented house where she lived until I was 12, had steps leading up to the front door. I never went through that front door, nor did family. We went down the narrow alley at the side of the house and into the back room. There was a room either side of the hall one a living room one a dining room. I don't remember these ever being used. At the back was the room they spent all their time in which contained the TV, 3 piece and dining table and chairs, off of that was a small scullery as nan called it. A belfast sink, an antiquated gas cooker, a food cupboard and a hand made bench with a chunky wooden top used as a work surface. I used to be given the job of scrubbing this after use. The back room had a door into the 150ft garden which contained the outside loo. There was one bedroom on a half landing up the windy staircase up a few more steps to nan and grandads room round the corner a couple more steps to the huge attic. She then moved to a two bed council flat

I can relate to that absent, my ideal would be a house with a large utility room for dogs, white goods and clothes drying. You can keep conservatories etc just give me my utility.

I was once tempted to buy a house simply because it had a boot room. Unfortunately, the house needed quite a lot of renovation so I settled for something in better condition – but no boot room.

Press is Irish isn't it, they still use that word when I m over there

My gran said Back kitchen
My mum sometimes referred to it as the kitchenette.

My gran also had a Press (airing cupboard)
The hall was The Lobby.
The Lum = Chimney
And The Gloryhole.

Mum called it the scullery and the larder was used to store crockery. We too had a glory hole. Wonder where the name came from? It was a large cupboard off the front bedroom and over the stairwell. My dad's old kit bag was in there and mum, a keen dressmaker, stored all her left over bits of material in it. A bit like a memory store!

Our glory hole was the box room off my bedroom.

My GPs lived in a terrace house with a front room (special occasions), back room (living room with two comfy chairs, a sideboard, and a dining table used for eating, making pastry and doing the ironing), and the back kitchen with a sink, copper in the corner and a gas cooker. The pantry was the cupboard under the stairs, there was a large mangle in the shed outside next to the outside loo and coal shed. Our house next door was the mirror image arranged the same, except for the copper - but we had a front room, living room and kitchen 'cos we were modern.

My Nan had a front room, dining room, kitchen, pantry and glory hole on the bottom floor Did all of you have a glory hole? Upstairs were the bedrooms and third door was the attic

Sorry, it was one of those silly family things, somehow amontillado sherry was referred to as armadillo, after a mistake by an aged relative.

Problem is, we all sort of got in the habit of calling it that, and then struggled to actually use the right word. There must be a lot of waiters or bar staff out there who think they were serving right numptys!

We had a back kitchen too but DH Family had a scullery. My Nana had a front parlour

the kitchen in or tenement flat in the 50's was a large open plan kitchen area with sitting room and was used by all of us ,my parents two sets of aunts and uncles my gran and unmarried aunt and my three sisters and me.There was a large sitting room that we called "the big room" where grannies 6 piece suite and massive square dining table and 8 chairs lived and where all the family gathered for Hogmanay thats all including the ones who live d with granny .After the war housing was short in Glasgow and my parents and the others were all in the same house,a 4 bedroom two public and bath for 12 years .We loved living with all the family,so much so that when everyone started to get their own places granny sold up and moved between the families for the rest of her life.My uncle said it the 80's it was like Southfork ...up a close .lol

My nan had a large front room, with a bay, an itchy 3 piece, a set of encyclopedias a companion set, brass coal box and a China display cabinet.

The smaller dining room had a dropleaf table, 4 dining chairs, a leather sofa, 2 leather armchairs, a TV and a bookcase. And, mostly 3 people too.

I always liked the box room which had all sorts of stuff in it - but no boxes

Christinefrance Yes the front parlour was used at Christmas for family get togethers and if the doctor had to visit, the rest of the time what would now be called the dining room (next to the back kitchen) but what my Gran called the sitting room was used.

Yes Amontillado sherry.

I remember the parlour and the front room only used at Christmas or when the minister and posh visitors came.

Our house also had a pantry. Isn't
amontillado sherry?

My gran had a back kitchen and a front parlour!

The chicken food my Nan boiled up always smelled tastier than the dinner she was cooking for us.
We has a meat and milk safe outside the back door.I think the shelves were lined with asbestos, that I used to scrape at with my little fingernails!