LA SALA or LA SALA DE ESTAR are two interchangeable ways to refer to the living room in Spanish, a very important room in the house. This lesson covers several essential verbs, adjectives and other words needed to create your own description of a living room in Spanish. It includes many resources such as audio examples, pictures and interactive quizzes for practice. Let’s start…
Vocabulary Introduction: Common living room objects in Spanish
First, please take a look at two pictures rooms and use the numbers to identify the living room objects in Spanish written on the right. Notice that some of these words are actually similar to the ones in English, like SOFÁ (sofa) and LÁMPARA (lamp), which makes it easier to remember them.
Interactive quiz No. 1
Look at a picture with different objects in the living room in Spanish and drag the names of each item based on its numbers in the illustration.
Demonstrative adjectives, Articles and HAY for house objects
The first group of examples will make use of demonstrative adjectives such as “ESTE, ESE, ESTOS…” as they are often used with house objects in Spanish to indicate their location or describe them, for example:
- Ese librero está polvoso. (That bookcase is dusty)
- Mi mamá pintó esta pintura. (My mom painted this painting)
Most of the time, we use the form “HAY” (there is/there are) from the verb “HABER” in order to talk about the objects found at a specific place. HAY is used for both singular and plural nouns. These sentences will use some of the vocabulary for the living room in Spanish, plus basic grammatical structures such as definite and indefinite articles.
Sentences with things in the living room in Spanish
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Me gusta esa mesa de café
I like that coffee table
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¿Qué piensas de esta silla?
What do you think about this chair?
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Me encantan los colores de estas cortinas
I love the colors of these curtains
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Prefiero una pintura más relajante para nuestro cuarto
I prefer a more relaxing paint for our room
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El televisor en la foto es antiguo
The television in the picture is old.
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Este librero es demasiado grande para la sala
This bookcase is too big for the living room
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La mesa es lo suficientemente alta para los niños.
The table is tall enough for the kids.
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¿Te gusta esta alfombra o esa?
Do your like this rug or that one?
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Using Quantifiers in Spanish: “pocos, pocas, muchos, muchas…”
All the previous sentences deal with singular nouns, but we often use words in plural form as well. For countable, plural living room objects in Spanish such as “mesas”, “camas” and so on, we will need the quantifiers POCOS/POCAS (a few), MUCHOS/MUCHAS (many), VARIOS/VARIAS (several), BASTANTES (a lot), SUFICIENTES (enough) as in the sentence “Este librero tiene pocos libros”.
On the other hand, if the noun is plural and uncountable such as “agua, café, oxígeno”, then you will need to use the quantifiers POCO/POCA (a little), MUCHO/MUCHA (much), BASTANTE (a lot), SUFICIENTE (enough) without the letter -S at the end. Remember to pay attention to the gender of the object you are talking about and the type of noun (contable, no contable) so you can choose the right quantifier.
Sentences with living room objects in Spanish and quantifiers
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La sala tiene muchos objetos.
The living room has many objects
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Hay muchas fotos/fotografías en este álbum
There are many pictures in this album
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Tengo unas cuantas lámparas en mi casa
I have a few lamps in my house.
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Hay muchos sofás en la tienda
There are many sofas in the store
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Hay tantas plantas diferentes en su jardín
There are many different plants in her garden
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No hay muchos sillones como este
There are not many armchairs like this one.
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Interactive quiz No. 2
Look at the image and drag the words into the correct spaces to complete these sentences about the living room in Spanish.
Describing a Living Room in Spanish – Describiendo la sala en español
Adjectives plus the verb SER in its form ES and SON are in used to describe almost everything in the language. It is common to use adjectives such as colors or more specific words for each object, such as “CLÁSICA” or “BONITA”, for example:
- Los sofás son rojos y las cortinas son azules. (The sofas are red and the curtains are blue)
- Hay una hermosa pintura clásica en la pared. (There is a beautiful classical painting on the wall.)
In conversations, you could use expressions like SABES…” (You know…), YO CREO QUE…”(I think that), ME ENCANTA…” (I love), A MÍ ME PARECE BUENA IDEA…” (I think it is a good idea) to make your sentences sound a little more natural. Also, you can use the verbs HAY (there is/there are) and TENER (to have) to say what objects you see. Here are two descriptions of living rooms in Spanish.
Description No. 1
La sala de mi casa es grande y moderna. Hay varios cuadros con fotografías de mi familia colgados en la pared. Las paredes son de color celeste claro con detalles blancos. Hay un librero que tienen muchos libros interesantes y mis libros favoritos son los de misterio. No tenemos sofás pero tenemos unas sillas muy cómodas. Me encanta ver televisión en mi tiempo libre. La sala también tiene una lámpara de techo que la hace lucir muy elegante.
Description No. 2
La sala de estar de mi casa es bastante sencilla. Hay varios adornos por toda la sala, incluyendo algunas fotos familiares. Tenemos sofás de color crema y en medio una mesa de café. La sala tiene una ventana hacia la calle y la ventana tiene cortinas de color naranja. También hay una alfombra bastante grande. Hay mucha ventilación, así que es una habitación muy cómoda para pasar el tiempo libre.
Listening Activity: The living room in Spanish
Key expressions in the conversation:
- “Me dan ganas de…” and “Tengo ganas de…” mean “I feel like…”
- “Todavía necesito…” means “I still need to…”
Related Spanish Worksheets:
- House objects and Furniture in Spanish
- The House and Prepositions of Place
- Rooms and Parts of the House in Spanish
- The House in Spanish – Crossword Puzzle
- Describing Houses in Spanish (Pictures + Sentences)
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