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[skatting44]

Maybe they entertain often and use the tables to serve cake  & tea.Looks like a seating for a Womens group .

Maybe they decided to leave it in the room  so that it was handy rather than  fetch it from the storage room.

[godi]

Never seen this before. Too much clutter. I would trip for sure. Love the colors of the room though. 

[Desertdi]

Who puts furniture right up against a fireplace?

[Bhvbum]

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@Desertdi wrote:

Who puts furniture right up against a fireplace?

looks like gas logs. You can see where the tile on the hearth ends so it looks like that bench is a little bit further away than it appears in the picture.  

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[Nonametoday]

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@Desertdi wrote:

Who puts furniture right up against a fireplace?

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@Desertdi 

Most fireplaces nowadays are only for ambience and not for heat.  Therefore, you can have logs that do not actually burn "fire" but give a flame imitating fire like the battery-operated cancles instead of real wax candles.  

In fact, I have my wing chairs against the fireplace, just like they did back in 1700s when they put the Mr/Mrs wing chairs near the fire when there were guests and they were like the Mr/Mrs of the room.  Mine are like that.  I rarely sit in them.  They are normally used for guests.  Many men prefer sitting in them as to sitting on the sofa or in a lower club chair.

[Nonametoday]

There are two sofas in that room.  One sofa for each coffee table.  I have a friend who has 3 sofas alike and has them in the shape of a "U."  She has two smaller cocktail tables and in front of the middle sofa, she has two of those little tables that are glass and look like extra tables and they are.  She only pulls them out when she has guests, one of those 12 x 12 tables for each end of the sofa.  The two small cocktail tables are used for the guests on facing sides.  I wish I had a room large enough for 3 identical sofas but I really would not use them as often as she.  She hosts a small theater group, a study club and book club frequently.  So, they work well for her. 

[NickNack]

I think that's a very strange look for an otherwise nice room.  Why not have one coffee table and end tables for the other sofa?

[Nonametoday]

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@NickNack wrote:

I think that's a very strange look for an otherwise nice room.  Why not have one coffee table and end tables for the other sofa?

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@NickNack 

I expect those sofas are farther apart than they appear in the photograph and that the two tables have been pulled more closely together than they are in real life.  I expect they are pulled nearer to each sofa and there is ample walking space in between.  Just surmising.  I don't know but it does look crowded from the photograph, I agree.

[NickNack]

I keep noticing something different every time I look at this.  I've never seen pictures hanging above windows that would be behind the drapes when they are closed.