Yikes, my family almost always had a small TV in the kitchen, the family TV in the den and no TV in the living room.

Well, in the public living room - you're supposed to be visiting with people.

eta: I guess it also depends on how high you hang it.

Heh.

The little b&w in the kitchen.

Heh.

I think anyone with both a living room and a den has the TV in the den -- even my other grandmother who has the plastic on the sofa in the living room.

We had a tv on a little wheelie cart that we could swing back and forth between the living room and the dining room. We ALWAYS watched the news while we ate dinner. And listened to my grandpa bitch about Jimmy Carter. Or maybe dirty eye-talian food when we were served pasta. Yes. My grandpa was sometimes Archie Bunker. And I am half italian.

The den/family room.

Hey we had one of those. We were old money, and I didn't even know it. The lack of money might have had something to do with it.

Even though flat-panel TVs are all the rage now, they still stick out like a sore thumb when you aren't using them. However, Pottery Barn has fixed all of that with their new Picture Frame for flat-panel displays. Now you can make it look like art, and stay functional.

Stick out like a sore thumb? Has this guy ever seen a CRT, with his definition of sticking out? Also, relatively speaking, those flanges certainly bring a whole lot of attention to the new tech. And not in a nice way.

In my immigrant grandparents' home, the tv was decidedly NOT on display by the 1970s. Now the 50s? Prom pictures were taken next to it.

You know, as the alarm went off this morning, I had a passing fantasy about taking a mental health day. Then I recalled all this stuff I wanted to do, and fantasy poofed.

I get in to discover the database spent the weekend figuratively puking its gut out, and I have just now been informed that it is well and truly dead. Restore-from-tape dead. So there's very little to do except watch a deadline next week loom ominously.

I think anyone with both a living room and a den has the TV in the den

Unless you had one in both.

When we lived in England we lived in a succession of furnished houses, so we just went with the flow. Hampstead Garden Suburbs was the ivy-covered Tudor, all dark and ominous and just about my favourite. Anyone who's seen my "pew" can easily imagine the decor of the dining room--with maroon walls and poor natural lighting to boot.

Had TV in the family room, sure. And all the bedrooms. And the living room. I don't know how old money it was supposed to represent, but there was certainly addiction represented there too.

Problem with the TV in den scenario is that my father doesn't hang out in dens but has his sports-watching needs. So unless he has his own private space for a TV, it goes in the living room. The house we actually own has an add on apartment he's colonised, and so we're living room TV free.