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It’s a Living Room - Live in It
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Remember the time of the parlor from Victorian days–a room maintained primarily to receive visitors? The furniture was pretty formal and uncomfortable, the pictures were of long-gone ancestors, the walls were dark and the furnishings austere. For a time the modern living room was thought of in much the same way–a fairly formal room kept so through a minimum of use, a room with no clutter and an unused feel to it. A room to keep dusted and ready for an infrequent formal or semi-formal use. That traditional utilization of the living room is changing. In fact, in some homes the wall between the living room and the den has been removed making the combined area one large great room where the family gathers to play and have fun.