Article: The last words: how do you get people to live in the living room? Twelve experts put the life back in everybody's most underused room.

Article: THE LIVING ROOM IS DYING; PARADE OF HOMES REFLECTS ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  September 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... is even getting requests to convert living rooms into other uses. This year alone, she has converted three living rooms into billiards rooms, she said. The term "living room" has become increasingly inaccurate for ...

Article: The expendable living room Some buyers still want a ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  September 27, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... But living rooms are getting ... buyers want that living room, according ... that living rooms are always included ... complexion of the living room has changed ... plan with a living room is available. Living rooms, and just about ...

Article: Is the living room dead?: Many new homes don't have ...
Newsday (Melville, NY);  September 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... great room or family room. That may already ... I see the formal living room as we know it as ... them have living rooms." One of her clients ... irrelevance. A living room can retain some ... often sees beautiful rooms, where "you say ...

Article: The incredible shrinking living room Downsizing ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 12, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Neither wants a living room, but their reasons ... to furnish both rooms, and empty nesters ... eliminate the living room, and have the wall ... the kitchen and living room removed to create ... personal fan of great rooms. "Frankly, it ...

Article: Wide open spaces; The formal living room is being ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... formal living rooms. But several ... Is the formal living room disappearing ... the formal living room was pretty standard ... certain number of rooms, including two ... Parlors and `rec rooms' The American living room has evolved from ...

Article: The Slow Death of the American Living Room
The Washington Post;  August 12, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... don't have living rooms." Gopal Ahluwalia ... Builders, said, "The living room is on the chopping ... entertainment rooms, exercise rooms and larger family rooms and kitchens, "the ... give up space is the living room." The slow death ...

Article: Mix and match for ideal living room
New Straits Times;  January 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... 2000 Mix and match for ideal living room Byline: Clarence Koh Edition ... us spend plenty of time in our living room. Whether we are watching television ... on the comfortable couch, the living room almost always is the main gathering ...