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Calling them living rooms is a bit of a misnomer for most of them, representational guest zone in uncommonly large apartments of the Berlin cultural elite might

by mxfh 10y ago

Calling them living rooms is a bit of a misnomer for most of them, representational guest zone in uncommonly large apartments of the Berlin cultural elite might be a bit more honest description. The last two (Blechschmidt and Hubalek) might be actual living room arrangements.

basseq 10y ago
You mean you don't have a queen-sized chaise lounge in your 20-ft-ceilinged warehouse-style living room? And is that a stuffed leopard? (Angelika Blechschmidt)
- mxfh 10y ago
  I live in Charlottenburg and I have a tiny indoor slide. Way more fun.
zuzun 10y ago
If you want something more down to earth, check out Freunde von Freunden [1]. They started in Berlin and most of the people they interview live in Berlin. They meet "friends of friends", interview them and take pictures of their homes. [1] http://www.freundevonfreunden.com http://www.freundevonfreunden.com
TillE 10y ago
I've visited dozens of apartments in Berlin during several searches (WG-Zimmer or Nachmieter), some fairly nice, and yeah...most people don't live like that. A lot of places have two or three bedrooms and no "living room".
et-al 10y ago
> Calling them living rooms is a bit of a misnomer for most of them Living room, family room, and den always confused me when I was a kid. In the States, "living room" means a more formal room for entertaining guests (coffee table with thick art monographs) and it'd often be adjacent to the dining room. In contrast, the "family room" or "den" are places where people would spend most of their time and that's where the television would be. Don't ask me how the room came to be called "living room" since most people don't spend much time there to the point that some houses would have the couches covered in plastic or bedsheets.
- twic 10y ago
  We don't, that i know, have family rooms or dens in the UK, but i have always been a bit confused by the possibility of both living rooms and sitting rooms. There are also lounges, of course, but the kind of people who have lounges certainly don't have sitting rooms. To say nothing of drawing rooms. There's actually quite a good gallery of British living rooms through the ages in the Geffrye Museum in London, starting from back when they were called parlours. The main thing i remember about it is that the Victorians had fantastically poor taste in interior decoration.

by mxfh 10y ago

basseq 10y ago

You mean you don't have a queen-sized chaise lounge in your 20-ft-ceilinged warehouse-style living room? And is that a stuffed leopard? (Angelika Blechschmidt)

mxfh 10y ago
I live in Charlottenburg and I have a tiny indoor slide. Way more fun.

zuzun 10y ago

If you want something more down to earth, check out Freunde von Freunden [1]. They started in Berlin and most of the people they interview live in Berlin. They meet "friends of friends", interview them and take pictures of their homes. [1] http://www.freundevonfreunden.com http://www.freundevonfreunden.com

TillE 10y ago

I've visited dozens of apartments in Berlin during several searches (WG-Zimmer or Nachmieter), some fairly nice, and yeah...most people don't live like that. A lot of places have two or three bedrooms and no "living room".

et-al 10y ago

> Calling them living rooms is a bit of a misnomer for most of them Living room, family room, and den always confused me when I was a kid. In the States, "living room" means a more formal room for entertaining guests (coffee table with thick art monographs) and it'd often be adjacent to the dining room. In contrast, the "family room" or "den" are places where people would spend most of their time and that's where the television would be. Don't ask me how the room came to be called "living room" since most people don't spend much time there to the point that some houses would have the couches covered in plastic or bedsheets.

twic 10y ago
We don't, that i know, have family rooms or dens in the UK, but i have always been a bit confused by the possibility of both living rooms and sitting rooms. There are also lounges, of course, but the kind of people who have lounges certainly don't have sitting rooms. To say nothing of drawing rooms. There's actually quite a good gallery of British living rooms through the ages in the Geffrye Museum in London, starting from back when they were called parlours. The main thing i remember about it is that the Victorians had fantastically poor taste in interior decoration.