SBS 0 #1 May 31, 2005 So, my gf and I are having a debate... I think that a living room is where you have an entertainment center and spend most of your time, and that a family room is the room where you have the furniture that hardly ever gets used, where you spend time quality family time, without distraction. She says that the family room is where you spend most of your time, and have the tv, etc., and that the living room is the more formal of the two. What do you guys think? Steve_____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob.dino 1 #2 May 31, 2005 You're wrong; she's right. Think of it as practice . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
heidihagen 0 #3 May 31, 2005 the living room has the piano and other boring furnature. nobody likes to go in there.i didn't lose my mind, i sold it on ebay. .:need a container to fit 5'4", 110 lb. cypres ready & able to fit a 170 main (or slightly smaller):.[/ce Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #4 May 31, 2005 She's right.She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowwhite 0 #5 May 31, 2005 Don't worry, you'll get used to it. After awhile, when someone asks a question, you will just automatically wait for her to answer it..skydiveTaylorville.org freefallbeth@yahoo.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #6 May 31, 2005 come on... I haven't even ever had a girlfriend and I know she's right... but just because she's right... this time... Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #7 May 31, 2005 She's right, Steve. And btw, if the family room is where you spend your quality time together, what makes you think the furniture hardly gets used there? ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #8 May 31, 2005 Yeah, the living room is the "formal" of the two. At my parents' house, the living room includes the formal dining area where the long table is. It's hardly used. The family room is where the TV that they use most of the time and watch from either the couch or the casual dinner table... My house is a bit more informal, I just have one great room with the fire-place and TV. However. we are thinking about turning one of our 4 bedrooms into a den/office, to include a TV, futon, computer and video phone... "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skybytch 273 #9 May 31, 2005 You're both wrong. The bedroom is where you have the entertainment center and spend most of your quality time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #10 May 31, 2005 QuoteYou're both wrong. The bedroom is where you have the entertainment center and spend most of your quality time. Of course... silly me... what is an entertainment center without the ceiling mirrors and shackles on the bed?? "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tdog 0 #11 May 31, 2005 She is right, both because she always will be, and because she is... Most new homes these days seem to NOT have a living room anymore... Too many people figgured it out - what a waste of space... But, call any room what you want - put the TV near the kitchen and BBQ grill, and you are set for any party that will come. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #12 May 31, 2005 QuoteMost new homes these days seem to NOT have a living room anymore... Too many people figgured it out - what a waste of space... Not necessarily true. In the upscale homes that we build in our company, the customers still want a formal living room as an entrance and entertaining area for guests if they stop by. They don't want to greet their guests in the area where they might have the newspaper or their shoes laying around. In my house, I turned my living room into my family room, and my family room into my computer/exercise room. It suits my lifestyle better. Then again, I'm not very uppity!She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tigra 0 #13 May 31, 2005 I don't have a separate family room, just a living room. So, that's where the comfy couch and entertainment center are! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #14 May 31, 2005 QuoteIn my house, I turned my living room into my family room, and my family room into my computer/exercise room. It suits my lifestyle better Yeah... if we had both, I would have turned the more formal one into something else too.Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rehmwa 2 #15 May 31, 2005 QuoteNot necessarily true. In the upscale homes that we build in our company, the customers still want a formal living room as an entrance and entertaining area for guests if they stop by. Yep - once over a couple thousand square feet, there's that useless room just in the front door where people can drop their coats on the ugly couch. Nowadays it's more of a layout with an informal family/great room and the other one is called the greeting room or living room which is separate from the great room. We decided to put doors on the opening to that useless room. Now it's out of site and the wife uses it to make freefly suits and weighbelts - it's a hobby room for her and she gets the big windows as a result too. I got the basement for the weights and cross trainer, but that's being slowly taken over, too. The only cliche left ot me is the garage. Edit: SBS - why don't you and the GF just rename the two rooms Bob and Helen and then decide which gets the TV. "Hey - wanna go into Helen and watch a movie?", "No, I'm just going to stay here in Bob and finish this book". Why be tied down with labels anyway? ... Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bodyflight.Net 0 #16 May 31, 2005 I think that it's the living room... but if you have BOTH rooms in your house.. then you use the family room for the family stuff and living room for guests... but to be clear, as I only have one room for all that, we call it a living room, and we do in fact LIVE in it 16 hours a day (most days)! (my office is in the living room too) Pink Suits, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
