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dagibbsMy house has been a bit bare of furniture. I think it comes of mostly having other people living with me, and they all had furniture, and now none of them live with me.
So, I've just added some furniture -- I've got a couch in my dining room, now. Yeah, that's kinda strange, but I wanted a comfortable couch around, and my living room area is too small for a full-size couch, yet my parents had a couple spare couches in their basement, and it would fit fine in the dining room (which is actually the biggest room in my house, well, except maybe for the finished attic, but there was no way the couch was making it up there), so it's in the dining room. I also found a bedroom set -- dresser and two bedside tables -- out at the curb 3 houses up the street. So, I dragged them back to my place. My the dresser was a pain to move. Now, one bedside table is an end table beside the couch, another is a stereo stand in my bedroom, and the dresser is pretending to be a buffet in the room that is almost but not quite part of the living room/fireplace room. (Yeah, it's a bit odd.)
I still need a loveseat, though, for the living room, and probably another chair or too for in there. And, need to drag the yellow wingback chair down from the 3rd floor (that is, the finished attic) where it was put a while ago to protect it from a room-mate's cat.
Baby steps, but progress.
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So, I've just added some furniture -- I've got a couch in my dining room, now. Yeah, that's kinda strange, but I wanted a comfortable couch around, and my living room area is too small for a full-size couch, yet my parents had a couple spare couches in their basement, and it would fit fine in the dining room (which is actually the biggest room in my house, well, except maybe for the finished attic, but there was no way the couch was making it up there), so it's in the dining room. I also found a bedroom set -- dresser and two bedside tables -- out at the curb 3 houses up the street. So, I dragged them back to my place. My the dresser was a pain to move. Now, one bedside table is an end table beside the couch, another is a stereo stand in my bedroom, and the dresser is pretending to be a buffet in the room that is almost but not quite part of the living room/fireplace room. (Yeah, it's a bit odd.)
I still need a loveseat, though, for the living room, and probably another chair or too for in there. And, need to drag the yellow wingback chair down from the 3rd floor (that is, the finished attic) where it was put a while ago to protect it from a room-mate's cat.
Baby steps, but progress.
[edit]Wing-back chair dragged down stairs.[/edit]
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Date: 2005-05-16 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-16 07:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-16 02:30 pm (UTC)I think it's strange that we think it's normal that nearly every living room has a TV as its focal point.
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Date: 2005-05-16 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-16 04:32 pm (UTC)When you see a "normal" living room, at minimum, it has a couch and chair facing the TV. If it has more than that, great. If it has no TV it is odd. If the couch isn't facing the TV, it's odd.
If it is packed with other things but no TV, it is odd.
I find that strange.
I would find it less strange if people expected living rooms to have some differences.
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Date: 2005-05-16 05:34 pm (UTC)Interestingly, for my parents house (both old and new), the "living room" was really the "guest visiting room", not where we lived, and it didn't and doesn't have a television. In the old house, there was a family room, with couch opposite tv. In the new house, again, there is a couch opposite tv in the room my parents relax in, but both my parents have their own recliners that they ususally sit in (not on the couch) and neither of those is facing the tv.