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Article: Knock down walls to help awkward family room work
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 26, 1988
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Q. I think we recently spent a lot of money and created a real
problem for ourselves at the same time.
We felt our family room was much too small for our needs and we
also needed a study. We knocked through the wall into what used to
be the garage and created an L-shaped family room and an adjacent
study.
We never even considered how we were going to arrange the space.
All we knew was that we had a lot more of it and were thrilled at the
prospect.
The study is no problem in that we have the standard 5-foot
desk, a filing cabinet and two free-standing bookshelves. They can
easily be arranged in many different ways.
The L-shaped family room has turned out to be a decorating
disaster. ...