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Has anyone seen a conversation pit in the last 20 years or have they gone the way of the dodo bird? I know people aren't big on old-fashioned conversations any more - if you gather in a living room it's typically focused on watching tv - and they sort of limited your furniture arranging options; but I always fancied having one of these. We had them in my elementary school & junior high but I never encountered on in an actual home outside of vintage decorating books.
Has anyone seen a conversation pit in the last 20 years or have they gone the way of the dodo bird? I know people aren't big on old-fashioned conversations any more - if you gather in a living room it's typically focused on watching tv - and they sort of limited your furniture arranging options; but I always fancied having one of these. We had them in my elementary school & junior high but I never encountered on in an actual home outside of vintage decorating books.
1. No TV in the living room ever, otherwise it become a TV room. I have my TV in my den/library, and the room is not big enough to accomodate more than one guest and the set is never on when someone else is there.
2. Cultivate friends who want to have conversations.
I did know one person who built one into his apartment in the 80's. There was a fireplace in the room as well. It was a wonderful place to sit around and have some good talks.
Most of that sort of "Playboy Mansion" style of decorating / furnishing has mercifully gone the way of the "leisure suit". I sorta associate the angular modernist homes of the early 1970's like "The Carver's" home from the Ice Storm with those velour covered aberrations -- The Prodigal Guide » The 20 houses from the movies we’d actually want to live in
When I moved into my new house, I decided to use the living room as the "formal" room, which really meant no TV. This house, unlike my last one, had a separate living space right off the garage, which is where I enter the house 99% of the time. That's the TV room.
The living room has a fireplace in the middle of the exterior wall. I put 2 sofas perpendicular to it, facing each other. I got a great deal on the sofas and really love the space. It's VERY conducive to conversations, but also to reading, playing the piano, etc. Just not watching the Super Bowl.
1. No TV in the living room ever, otherwise it become a TV room. I have my TV in my den/library, and the room is not big enough to accomodate more than one guest and the set is never on when someone else is there.
2. Cultivate friends who want to have conversations.
I did know one person who built one into his apartment in the 80's. There was a fireplace in the room as well. It was a wonderful place to sit around and have some good talks.
Has anyone seen a conversation pit in the last 20 years or have they gone the way of the dodo bird? I know people aren't big on old-fashioned conversations any more - if you gather in a living room it's typically focused on watching tv - and they sort of limited your furniture arranging options; but I always fancied having one of these. We had them in my elementary school & junior high but I never encountered on in an actual home outside of vintage decorating books.
People... converse? In person?! IN THEIR LIVING ROOMS?!!
Surely that was just a dream you accidentally mistook for reality.
^^^^ Nice pics at those two links. I especially like the ones with a fire pit in the center. They have a certain exotic lounge feeling that a sectional or 2 settees just wouldn't provide, IMO. Come to think of it, there is a similar conversation/fire pit at the Peppermill Lounge in Las Vegas...although the TVs sort of defeat the purpose.
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