Reflections 8: Living Room

Describe what the family living room looked like when you were a child.

There were zero good "living room" quotes :-D

Our living room was straight in the front door--you literally walked off the porch into the living room.

The furniture, and indeed the room itself, changed a lot while I was growing up, but when I was a child, it had that ugly brown carpet and wood paneling. We had a big television because Daddy said that we blocked him from seeing, teehee. We had a long couch that was not big enough for six people, but that's okay because half of us generally sat on the floor any way. It was hard to get all of us in one place. We had a surround sound and stereo, which made the noise SOOO loud in there. It was next to my bedroom--just a wall separating the rooms--so I usually fell asleep to the sound of Mom and Dad watching MASH. The theme song--"Suicide Is Painless"--is still very calming to me.

When we were sick, Mom and Dad would have us sleep in the living room so we wouldn't make anyone else sick. They had this big ol' bucket to sit next to us so we wouldn't have to run to the bathroom to vomit. But anyways, on those nights, we would lay up and watch MASH with Daddy (mom usually fell asleep).

As a child, there was a wall separating the dining room from the living room, but later on they knocked that wall down and it was just one big open space.