Living room facts for kids

Living room

A living room is a room in a home. The living room in a home is shared by the people living in the home. In the living room they talk with each other and their guests and do other things such as reading or watching television. The furniture can include a couch, chairs, tables, lamps, a television, curtains and pictures. People may have started using the compound word, living room, in the early twentieth century.

• Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language. G. & C. Merriam Company.
• Concise Oxford English Dictionary. Tenth Edition. Oxford University Press.
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Images for kids

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  A Tudorbethan sitting room in the UK.

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  A California tract home living room, with a kitchen behind a permanent space divider, 1960.

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  Louise Rayner, Tudor Style Interior at Haddon Hall, UK, 19th century.

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  Miller House, Mid-century Modern, Columbus, Indiana, 1953-57, "Conversation Pit".

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  Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century.

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  Grand Trianon, Palace of Versailles, Commissioned by King Louis XIV, 17th century.

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  A reconstruction of a typical Soviet-era living room at a museum in Tallinn, Estonia.

See also

In Spanish: Cuarto de estar para niños