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The Living Room Is The Most Important
An important point to remember in planning your own home is that the living room, as its name should imply, is, along with the kitchen, the most important room in your house.
Careful planning not only of the room itself, but its eventual furnishing and decoration, will pay dividend of long years of happy contented home life. Aspect, shape and size are three of the main considerations.
Best aspect
North is the best aspect and south the worst.
Remember, too, that the lounge is the room which is most logically used to connect the house to the garden, either direct through French doors or large windows, or by a verandah and pergola. An oblong is preferable to a square shape and size must be decided on family requirements.
Lighting in this room must be, for obvious reasons, the best in the house. General lighting