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@Kachina624  So often when I watch EttC I think, "How can they see the beautiful landscape through those terrible windows?" I guess it was the best they could do given the age of the homes.

[Kachina624]

@PickyPicky3   They're similar to windows in revolutionary-era homes in the US.  Small windows with wavy glass and thick stone walls.

[Kachina624]

@gtx    Its on a channel called Dabl which I get on antenna TV.  I have an inexpensive interior antenna connected to one of my TVs.  

Remember Sarah Richardson the Canadian interior designer who was on HGTV?  There is also an hour of her old shows every day.  Lots of Martha Stewart and old Emril Lagasse shows too.  It's worth the hook up just to get this channel.  There is also one called Create which has some good shows.

[gtx]

Kachina, thank you for the information. I am looking for options. I want to get rid of Direct TV. I have Sling and Netflix but they don't have everything that I like to watch.

[PamfromCT]

@Kachina624, I became familiar with this concept many years ago while visiting the Franklin Delano Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, New York.  There was a room, small and cozy, called “the snuggery.”  

I have always liked the concept of living in warm and cozy spaces, and I think our home reflects that.  While we don’t have overstuffed chairs and such, homey and comfy would describe our Early American decorated home.  Our “formal family portrait,” taken a few short years ago, was taken on the grounds of a historic mansion, with a lovely old stone wall as a backdrop.  We all wore jeans, except little GD.  Not formal people, would you say?

[jubilant]

Yes, I need a snug.  Since DH's cardiac arrest he had to move into the guest room so the master bedroom has become my "snug". I even have my computer in here and a nice big window overlooking the woods behind our house. Nice post...I had never heard of a snug before!

[wilma]

@Kachina624 

I’ve never heard this term, but I understand the concept in a house with larger rooms. I like the second picture of the room with the burning fire the best. 

Maybe I’m in the minority, but most of the rooms in my house are small anyway. The rooms in these photos look similar in size to the rooms in my house. I consider most of the rooms in my home to be cozy and relaxing.

[Kachina624]

@wilma   That's my favorite room too, bottom left.  I'd need to have my TV (not a huge one) nearby though.

[Mominohio]

I like the one with the roaring fire. 

It's a neat idea. My only concern is rooms this small, and this full are so hard to deep clean. It is hard to move things enough to clean under, behind around etc. They get dirty easily because of the small space and tend to get over cluttered as well. 

If I could control the amount of things in them (which kind of eliminates that snug feeling by doing so), I'd like an area like this.

[PA Mom-mom]

@Kachina624  Love these! The only area I had heard of as a "Snug" is when I was in Ireland in the 70's. When I first arrived there, I entered a pub in a rural location and was told to please enter at the "Snug" entrance. It seems ladies were not welcome in the general population of the pub and needed to enter and stay in the "Snug." Not all pubs were like that.