Small Living Rooms

A television is the hardest thing to fit into a small living room. It is a big black rectangle, it wants the best wall, and it pulls every chair in the room toward it. Most small rooms end up arranged around the screen like a waiting room, with everything else squeezed in afterwards. The rooms…

A small living room rarely feels small because of its measurements. It feels small because of where the eye stops: at a curtain rod mounted on the window frame, at the edge of a rug that floats like a bath mat, at the solid base of a sofa sitting like a boulder. Every trick in…