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Article: Informal lives threaten living room
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 12, 1999
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA - The living room is dying.
Long a model of stuffy grace and fancy furniture, the traditional
living room - employed rarely and off-limits to children and pets -
has all but disappeared from American homes.
Its replacement? A zone that gets daily use in the form of
Internet browsing, television watching, eating, drinking, exercising
or conducting business.
"The idea of this room that is set apart that you only use when
you have guests, like our parents did 50 years ago - people are not
planning those in their home," said Ann Platz, an Atlanta interior
designer. "They are really trying to find rooms they have multiple
functions for."
Decorators say the ...