American Homes Used to Have Separate Rooms — So Why Did Open Floor Plans Take Over?
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@theOlLineRebel · 10 days ago
Funeral parlor was partly due to the fact yes, the dead were set in the parlor at the home for the WAKE, for visits and for any possible mistakes about the persons life status. The flip of that is that more modern designers started calling it “LIVING room” and stopped using the word “parlor”, to detach from that death association.
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