Want to describe your home in French? Whether you’re talking to a friend, a teacher, or booking an Airbnb, this vocabulary will help you sound like a real French speaker!

🏡 The Main Rooms in a French House – Les pièces de la maison

Here are the essential rooms you’ll find in most houses or apartments in France:

🛋️ Focus on: Le Salon – The Living Room

Let’s zoom in on one of the most important parts of the house: le salon (the living room).
Here’s the key vocabulary you need to describe what’s inside.

🗣️ Example Sentences (with translation)

• Dans le salon, il y a un canapé et deux fauteuils.
  In the living room, there is a couch and two armchairs.
• La télévision est sur le meuble TV.
  The television is on the TV stand.
• J’ai mis un tapis rouge sous la table basse.
  I put a red rug under the coffee table.
• Il y a une lampe à côté du canapé.
  There is a lamp next to the sofa.
• Les rideaux couvrent la fenêtre.
  The curtains cover the window.

🎯 Bonus: Useful Verbs for the Living Room

• s’asseoir – to sit
• regarder – to watch
• allumer – to turn on
• éteindre – to turn off
• se reposer – to relax

🧠 Example: Je m’assois sur le canapé pour regarder la télé.
(I sit on the couch to watch TV.)

🧪 Mini Quiz – What’s in the living room?

Translate the sentences into French:

1. There is a sofa and a lamp.
2. The rug is under the table.
3. I watch TV in the living room.
4. The curtains are blue.
5. There are cushions on the couch.

✅ Show answers

1. Il y a un canapé et une lampe.
2. Le tapis est sous la table.
3. Je regarde la télévision dans le salon.
4. Les rideaux sont bleus.
5. Il y a des coussins sur le canapé.