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The living room.

You know it.

You love it.

It owes you money.

That’s because of all the stuff you bought that you put into it.

TV.

Furniture.

Carpeting.

You get the picture.

And you have to live in it in order to get your money’s worth.

Technically-speaking, and as long as you’re alive every room in the house is a living room

A case can be made for both bedrooms and kitchens being the most lived-in rooms in the house.

It’s like the olden days when houses had studies.

Perhaps they still do.

I never lived in a home with a study. If I needed to study I might just study in the living room

Just like sometimes I sleep in the living room, sometimes I would study in the bedroom–which technically-speaking should be called either the sleep room or the do-something-in-it-until-you-fall-asleep room.

Homes sometimes also have home offices which should just be called either a work office or just plain office as in offices are offices offsite or otherwise.

We could say that by virtue of working in them, home offices are also technically-speaking living rooms.

Which brings me to the next part of this missive…

What if…

What if I decided to move out of the home office for a column such as this and situate myself in the actual living room?

I would be working but not if I had the television on.

I can sit in the more comfortable furniture but find I simultaneously risk a higher chance for falling asleep in the living room while working–not that I am intentionally trying to confuse anyone here.

Now that I’ve been working on this piece (I’ve called it three things so far: missive, column, and piece) in the living room for a while I’m wondering on yet another set of aesthetics or variables that can influence worker productivity in the office, I mean, living room.

I have windows I can look out of in the living room.

My home office does not and feels more isolating by extension.

I can listen to classical or jazz music both in the living room and home office.

Oddly enough, the study is not set up for any music or actually anything at all as it does not exist in this home. As a result, it would be hard to figure out if one can both work and study effectively in a study that does not exist.

At the end of the day, I feel things are flowing pretty well writing-wise right here in the living room.

Would I consider writing in here full-time?

Probably not.

I feel a writer requires isolation in order to be effective over time. The living room should be primarily intended for living.

Since writing is suffering by any measure of men and women who have undertaken it, what quality of life and productivity can a writer achieve working out of a room first and foremost created for living and not misery the likes of which writing can be a catalyst for?

I’ll have to get back to you on that as I feel a nap in the living room coming on right about now.

Happy Monday!