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Article: Flip-flopping dining room and living room
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 21, 2004
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My clients called me when they wanted to throw a big family bash -
- and when I say big, I really mean it. They wanted to have more than
30 of their closest family members for a dinner party, but their
house was nowhere near ready to accommodate everyone.
With enough advance notice, I began the process of reinventing an
open-concept living-dining room.
The most obvious need was to restructure the room to accommodate
having that many people over for dinner. So I made the biggest change
right off the bat: flip-flopping the use of the rooms, with the
dining area in the front of the house and the living area toward the
back.
Don't ever feel that you're locked into using a room for what the ...