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What an upgrade! I am going to do this. These are just what my front step needs.

As another someone who spends most of the time at my home’s desk, my suggestion is to made your desk’s placement the primary consideration. Consider where you’ll be most comfortable in the room, maybe the light is better, the heat is not blowing directly on you (or maybe it is and you like that), maybe you don’t want your back to the door, or want to look out the window. If it were me, I’d want a rug under the desk, as well, and a lamp to the right because I’m left-handed. Then find the second best place for your reading nook.

Another suggestion is to make sure your living area is not just for guests. Make it attractive to you, so you have other places you like to sit besides your desk chair.

As for color, I love browns in a room. I love them with whites and blues and greens. But that’s just me.

I grew up in an early 1940s house with a piano against an outside wall, in the living room next to the kitchen. (shrugs) It seemed to do all right. It wasn't an ultra-precious professional musician's piano, just a nice piano.

My advice is that not shoving it up right against the wall, but keeping it 6 or 8 inches out would make a huge difference. And then, just watch the humidity to some extent, and perhaps additionally give it some distance from a very drafty window. And enjoy it!

Your living room is charming and welcoming. If the ceiling fan were in my place, I’d put in all burned-out bulbs, so I could use the fan but not have any light coming from up there. Those torchiere-style floor lamps always seem like a good idea because it makes for varied light quality in the room, but I haven’t gotten one to work for me, either. I think a replacement floor lamp, that shines the regular way, would be great in your space. They are expensive, but it could work for a very long time. I like having more floor lamps and fewer table lamps in my living room because I don’t want to have to have numerous tables.

This is a beautiful home. Unfortunately, when I favorited, it was at 188 and it dropped to 187. Not good AT.

I second the appreciation of international tours. It's good to see how people outside of the US are living. This is a beautiful home. The colors are so beautiful. I love the green sofas.

Very nice place. Your use of the green in your kitchen-dining space is absolutely...perfect.

What sort of luck have people had very gently hand washing some of these that don't list as "washable"? These are beautiful, but I don't want to buy one that must be dry-cleaned.

What works best for me is to go to bed sooner than he (the snorer) does. He is nice to wait for 45 minutes or so until I've fallen asleep first. I also had to stop drinking coffee, and no caffeinated tea after mid-afternoon!

Sometimes I still wake up in the night and have to reach over and push his shoulder because he is back on his back. He will comply even while asleep by turning over onto his side, which stops it long enough for me to go back to sleep.