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Article: Family Rooms and Activity Areas.
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- February 1, 1990
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Family Rooms & Activity Areas
Thinking about a
family room?
If you're under 35, you might think the term "family room" has always been with us. But it hasn't. Once, this room was rarely included in houses--and when it was, it went by such names as "recreation," "rumpus," or "play." In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the room began appearing in most mass-produced houses, and "family" became the most common name for it. From there, the term fast became part of our vacabulary.
On the cover of this issue an on page 82, we feature six family rooms that were added to houses built between 1915 and the early '60s. Each examples shows ...