Living room

[5] Objects in living rooms may be used "to instigate and mediate contemplation about significant others, as well as to regulate the amount of intimacy desired with guests.

Japanese cultural belief systems affected their design characteristics in the way that ornamentation should be minimal while incorporating natural elements.

[8] Until the late 19th century, the front parlour was the room in the house used for formal social events, including where the recent deceased were laid out before their funeral.

This room had only traditionally been used on Sundays or for formal occasions such as the ceremonies of deceased family members before proper burial; it was the buffer zone between the public and private area within the house.

Sundays are now more typically used for watching football on large color televisions causing larger family rooms to become more popular during the 1970s.

[11] The change in terminology is credited to Edward Bok due to his accreditation of the magazine article, Ladies' Home Journal.

King of France, Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles can be considered having one of the most lavishly decorated living rooms in the late 1600s.

The rise of the Industrial Revolution played a huge role in the advancement of the living room because due to mass production, decorative items became more available to the middle class.

A Tudorbethan sitting room in the UK.
A California tract home living room, with a kitchen behind a permanent space divider, 1960.
Louise Rayner, Tudor Style Interior at Haddon Hall , UK, 19th century.
Miller House , Mid-century Modern , Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57, "Conversation Pit".
Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century.
Drawing room at the Harewood House , 18th century.
Grand Trianon , Palace of Versailles , Commissioned by King Louis XIV , 17th century.
A reconstruction of a typical Soviet-era living room at a museum in Tallinn , Estonia .