Article: The incredible shrinking living room Downsizing hits home as function affects form

Article: Is the living room dead?: Many new ...
Newsday (Melville, NY);  September 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... house where the living room was the main gathering ... I see the formal living room as we know it as ... I know all the new homes I'm doing, none ... decided against the living room after friends with large new homes found they seldom ...

Article: Small new homes are killing the living ...
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  October 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... NJ) 10-05-2008 Small new homes are killing the living room By RENAE MERLE, THE WASHINGTON ... demise of the old-fashioned living room goes hand in hand with the ... den, Ray said. The smaller living room can be accommodated by replacing ...

Article: Man about the house: Sam Sethi: to really bring e-commerce into ...
New Media Age;  April 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... lean-back environment of the living room. "Imagine if, straight after ... when e-commerce moves into the living room. That day will have arrived ... housebuilders to provide cable ducts in new homes, Sethi knew that was an opportunity ...

Article: Furniture? Can't you make do without it? New homes ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  September 26, 2003 ;     644 words ... ... backed sofas, which we didn't, but did not explain the problem. 'When people sell you a house that has a first-floor living room you expect to be able to get a sofa up to it. ' I had measured our two sofas and thought they would go up the stairs but ...

Article: Modern design gaining adherents; A decorative element will ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 25, 1996 ;     700+ words ...If there's a discernible trend in interior design today, it involves changes in consumer preferences rather than the emergence of any new style. For the first time in many years, modern design is becoming of interest to more than just an elite group of "high-style" designers and an equally small

Article: Builders start work on New Homes for Old; ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  May 26, 2001 ;     462 words ... ... elderly residents their own flat, front door, living room and bathroom. Work on the New Homes for Old scheme has started at Henley House ... accommodation in Coventry. "It is the first of the New Homes for Old. This is the demonstration of the ...

Article: Cozy library cutting into traditional living room
Chicago Sun-Times;  July 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... imagination. In many new homes here and around the ... have been a larger living room or dining room, into ... scale, in a lot of new homes, the living room has morphed into a ... Actually, the living room is on the chopping ...