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Article: The Slow Death of the American Living Room
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 12, 1995
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It may be time to start writing the obituary for the American
living room.
Just look at the Columbia living room of Terry Streib and Lisa
Maddox. You won't find any fancy sofas there, only an eight-foot-
long pool table.
In Elizabeth and Fritz Scheuren's remodeled bungalow in
Alexandria, the living room has been turned into an elegant dining
room that can easily seat 10 guests.
The living room wasn't even included in the blueprints for the
three-year-old, five-bedroom home of Steven Weinstein, a builder
based in Ellicott City. "I just didn't feel it was necessary,"
Weinstein said.
"When we were growing up as children, all homes had living rooms -
- it was that special room we were never ...