Living Room

Describe what the family living room looked like when you were a child.

The living room was furnished with simplicity. In one corner was the library table. It had open ends which Mother filled with neat stacks of books and magazines. In the center of the table was a pretty dark green cut glass vase which we kept filled with cut flowers during the months when our flowers were in bloom. Instead of a sofa, we had a cot across from the library table. One of us would sleep on that cot when we had overnight guests. The chairs were very plain. So was the rug. But we had guests quite frequently and entertained them joyfully in that small room. The two windows of the living room were graced by lace curtains that had to be placed on curtain stretchers when they were washed.