How's the Furniture?

So many homes these days are arranged around one thing...the entertainment center! The couch, the recliner, the loveseat, all face one way - toward the TV. And then we wonder why there's so little meaningful conversation and interaction in the home. For some couples, the only time they face each other is in bed. That is not the way to put the most romance in a marriage.

This came home for us when we moved into a new home with a large family room. As we went about laying out the room only one design worked well, due to doors, windows, fireplace, etc. But the design left us facing in one direction. Worked well for the TV, but not so well for focused conversation. A definite problem.

Check out the furniture design in many older homes and it seems to say they knew something we have forgotten - you just have to have eye contact with someone in order to relate best. I found this out when I went to a one-day marriage workshop. The facilitator had all us married folks face each other "eyeball to eyeball, knee to knee'. For some in the room, it was a close as they'd been in a very long time. They were visibly uncomfortable.

So how about this...perform a furniture audit. Look around your home. How much of the layout allows for close, even intimate conversation? Granted there's always the couch. But even that seems to encourage looking forward rather than at each other.

In our home we finally laid out one room, our living room in such a way that there are a number of chairs and a loveseat which allow for great conversation. And when we want to really zone in, rather than out, we pull the chairs up close to each other. It works. I just LOVE looking into those blue eyes.

So...how's the furniture?

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