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All-Purpose Living Room
What do you require of a living-room? For present purposes it has to serve all those activities which were at one time spread over drawing-room, library, sewing-room, card-room, and games-room.
Living room planning should recognise the fact that we can no longer afford to set aside a great area for the sole purpose of feeding, and that we want this space to be so related to the living room that we can more easily use it for living room activities when necessary – as for entertaining.
This list of activities can be divided into furnishing groups. Conversation needs the main lounge group of furniture, which will also be the reading group. It can be divided into at least two portions in any room: (1) round the fire; (2) at the window for the view; or (1) with its back to the light for reading and