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I once spent an entire Saturday moving a couch across a room three separate times before admitting the arrangement was never going to work. I do not move furniture anymore without testing first.
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My childhood home had a fireplace, and every layout there started from what faced the mantel. My apartment has no fireplace, and…
I measured my own living room with a tape measure last winter, on my hands and knees, because I could not figure…
My living room has three doorways, and for a long time I arranged furniture as if the room only had four walls…
Every apartment I lived in during my twenties had the same layout by default: couch against one wall, chairs against another, and…
My apartment has one long room holding the kitchen, dining table, and living room with no walls between them. For months it…
My sister visited two summers ago and asked why all my chairs faced the television. I did not have a good answer,…