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Article: The expendable living room Some buyers still want a formal parlor, but others say they can do without
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 27, 2002
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There was time when the living room was called the parlor. That
was where the good furniture went. And it wasn't used much except
when company came to call.
Living rooms, and parlors, still occupy a place in the hearts and
the homes of many who remember them. But living rooms are getting
smaller, and in some houses disappearing altogether.
More affluent buyers want that living room, according to Judith Di
Monte, executive vice president of Joe Keim Builders Inc.
"In our deluxe model we present out here at Majestic Oaks, we have
a turreted living room," Di Monte said. "It has a couch and a couple
chairs and a little chess table in it. If someone were living in it,
they probably would never go ...