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2 Responses to “Beginner Lesson # 20 - About that dog…”
Thursday at 6:30 pm
When it comes to your living room, what is important to you?
Does the furniture have to be comfortable or is it all about style?
Also, something that has not been covered in the lesson:
A few hundret years ago, the concept of living rooms was uncommon in Germany. The kitchen served as a place to meat and talk and attend the day to day duties. In the big cities men’s salon, reading rooms and therefore the concept of living rooms became more and more common way before the two world wars.
But in the more rural areas farmers had the money to furnish a living room, but not the time to use it. In that time it was still common to only open the living room on weekend or on special holidays. And more often than not the wife would drape blancets over the couch, so no one could ruin the cushion.
This was common up to the 60s of the last centuries and only started to go out of practice, when TV sets became more and more common. Those were mainly placed in the living rooms, therefore providing the families with a reason to gather there more often.
Did you have great-grandparents who still thought like that?
I think I might have had, if only I ever would have had the chance to meet her…
And you can still find people who find the idea of a “Wohnküche” - a kitchen that serves as a living room - rather romantic.
What is your oppinion on that?
Friday at 7:45 pm
My grand-mother used to do that to some extent… There was a couch that would only be used when she had guests (family didn’t count). But she slowly changed along the years, and now everyone can use the couch anytime !
I guess the concept of Wohnküche makes sense if you have a large house, but in most modern appartments I know, the kitchen is a rather small, dedicated room, so you couldn’t think of “living” in it…
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