Room by Room: It All Starts in the Living Room

Pull up a chair — an actual one you sit in. This week on The Terrace, we're kicking off our room by room series with the space that has gone through more identity crises than any other room in the American home. The living room. The parlor. The family room. It has a lot of names, a complicated history, and apparently some very strong feelings about your TV size.We're tracing how the living room went from a gated-off formal space where the dog wasn't allowed to the casual, come-as-you-are heart of the modern home. We get into the fireplace comeback, the Frame TV conspiracy (why are we pretending we don't have TVs?), Instagram's role in the millennial beige epidemic, and the AI slop situation on Pinterest that has officially gotten out of hand.Caitlin comes fresh off a Euro trip that included the Paris Flea Market, a furniture dealer named Francois, and four days without her luggage that ended with a stranger handing it to her husband out of an unmarked car in Venice. Sam is on the hunt for mantle inspiration and may or may not be attending an estate sale or two this weekend.We also talk cluster seating yearning, the oversized ottoman coffee table moment, and why your living room should feel like somewhere you actually want to come home to — not somewhere you're scared to spill something.Come show us your living room on Instagram @thestudio_terrace — the real one, the honest one, the one with the TV you're pretending isn't there. We want to see it all. See you back on the Terrace. Don't forget the wine. 🍷