Furthermore, placing sofas and chairs at the edges can make the center feel empty and cold.
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Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
6 June 2026
There’s the grand living room with another side of that fireplace blocked in by plush sofas and the adjacent dining room with its long table and stone underfoot and calamondin trees catching the light.
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