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1. Dining rooms and parts of the kitchen used for eating meals have long been associated as the heart of the home.

2. Chairs with a reclining back have become popular for a number of reasons: first, is good for relaxing and lounging; furthermore, it is easy-to-operate.

3. Looking at goods displayed in shop windows, especially without intending to buy is the favourite pastime of all New Yorkers.

4. Many products in the computer industry, for example, Central processing units frequently become out of date and no longer produced in favor of newer, faster units.

5. The latest advance in disability aids are seats able to be turned on their base to face in any direction, so that the seat in the vehicle becomes a wheelchair seat, eliminating the need to transfer from one seat to another.

6. Available in a variety of styles and shapes, a small sofa for two people, especially one designed so that the couple can face each other, is great for families, couples or one-bedroom apartments tight on space.

7. The bookshelf is near enough to reach by extending my hand from my computer.

 

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Which room, to your mind, is the most difficult to furnish? Why?

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Furnishing your home can be a daunting task. Many people like to have an interior design plan and like to have furniture that fits the decor of their home’s interior. Before buying furniture, you might want to do some research, go to furniture stores and do some window shopping first.

You can do all kinds of different things and use certain objects to mix with real furniture pieces to have an interesting design. Some of you probably like the antique look or like to mix antique pieces of furniture with modern furnishings.

Color is very important in choosing the right furniture for your home. The best colors that work for your home and home furnishings are complementary colors. Complimentary colors work the best because these colors provide sharp contrast and make the entire room more appealing to the eye.

Positioning your furniture is also very important. The proper way to furnish each room and how to position the different pieces of furniture in each room is as follows:

1. The bedroom can be one of the most difficult rooms to furnish. Beds and their components such as mattresses, headboards and spring boxes are often cumbersome and difficult to handle. Furthermore, they take more than one person to move and position in place in most cases.

The beds should be placed more towards the center of the room with the headboard up against the wall. Do not place the headboard up against a window if the window is lower than the height of the headboard. Nightstands should be placed on either side of the bed at the headboard end.

The purpose of a nightstand is to have things that you need for the night, therefore it would make perfect sense to have them at your hand’s reach. Dressers and mirrors should also be positioned against the wall where there is no window. Bed spread s should be color coordinated with the color of the paint or wallpaper in the bedroom.

2. The formal dining room is a bit easier to position the furniture than the bedroom. The formal dining room is the room where special meals are eaten, during holidays and other special occasions. This room is not intended to eat in on a daily basis. That is done in the kitchen dinette usually.

In furnishing the formal dining room, you should first place the table and the chairs. The dining room table and matching chairs is best positioned in the middle of the room. Other pieces of furniture that go into the dining room include hutches and possibly some sort of sound system for entertaining. Hutches should be placed against a solid wall.

You can also get corner hutches that fit nicely into a corner of the dining room. Likewise if you choose to have a stereo in the dining room, you need a stereo cabinet that houses the stereo system and some shelves to store CDs.

With today’s technology, however, that can also be obsolete because you can get sound systems that you can plug your iPod or other portable music players into. These sound systems should be concealed in a nice cabinet that matches the rest of the furniture in the dining room. Speakers should be installed in inconspicuous areas in the room yet be the least visible as possible.

3. The living and family rooms are complex rooms in the house where the most action in the home takes place. The family or living room is a room that is designed to be for the whole family. This is the room that has the TV set and other things for the family to be entertained.

Usually the TV sets of today are large plasma screen TV sets and are incorporated with other components of a home entertainment system. The Plasma screen TV should be either affixed to a special entertainment center cabinet or you can also get plasma screen TVs that can be hung from the wall.

The wall mounted plasma TVs often need to be hard-wired into the house’s electrical systems, though now you can get some TV sets that can be connected wirelessly to the satellite box, DVD players and DVRs as well as the sound system.

If your TV and entertainment system comes with surround sound, the small speakers need to be positioned in various places of the room where the best sound effect would come from. The woofer should be in part of the entertainment system cabinet but should not be covered.

The entertainment system cabinet should be placed against a windowless wall that everyone in the room can comfortably face, especially if the TV is incorporated in the cabinet. Divans and love seats should also be placed against walls. Coffee tables should be placed in front of the divan.

Armchairs can be placed in open places but out of the way of daily traffic. Most armchairs are recliners, so the wall might prevent the armchair to function properly. Therefore armchairs are best in open places. Shelves and bookcases should also be placed against the walls.

4. The home office is usually one of the easiest rooms to furnish. The home office usually consists of a computer desk or regular desk, a seat at the desk, shelves and bookcases and file cabinets. The computer desk is a rather large piece of furniture.

Most computer desks are designed to serve as both, a regular desk, where you have a place to write notes or letters by hand and a place for all the components for your desktop computer. Usually the typical computer desk has a cubbyhole for your computer’s monitor and at the bottom a cabinet for the tower case of your computer.

Your computer’s keyboard and mouse are usually placed on a flat surface that slides in and out like a drawer. Your computer desk might also have other cabinets that are above the computer’s monitor to store disks and other computer or work related items.

This piece of furniture should be placed against a wall. If the seat that comes with the computer desk is a swivel seat with wheels, you should have a special mat for that seat, especially if the floor in your home office is carpeted.

For those of you who have laptop computers instead of desktop computers, a regular desk should be sufficient. Shelves and bookcases should also be placed against walls and out of the way.

There are many different ways to furnish your home. If you really want to be wild and eccentric, there are many different websites that show unique ways on how to furnish your home. Whatever your financial situation is, there is a way out there that you can find to both furnish your home and make it your home sweet home.