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Article: Living rooms ready for attention: Despite competition from den, family rooms, the 'lifestyle' area is poised to grow up
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 29, 2005
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The living room rarely lives up to its name. Unless one resides in
a studio apartment, it is a room not so much for day-to-day living as
it is a backdrop, the place we gather to take pre-prom and holiday
greeting card snapshots.
Usurped as an activity center by the den, the family, recreation
and rumpus rooms, the ubiquitous great room (the kitchen-dining-TV
and baby-watching space) and, of course, the 21st century home
theater, the living room had become something of a dead zone.
But reports of the living room's outright demise have been greatly
exaggerated. With interest in home decorating now exceeding the boom
experienced in the 1950s - the last heyday of the living room - it is ...