Or if you're an avid reader, install custom built-in bookshelves to build a mini library. Remember, a sitting room can act as a back-up living space, a secondary sitting area to host impromptu ...

My best advice about that landing area: Turn it into a daytime space, maybe a little library or a comfortable sitting room outside the second-floor bedrooms … as architect Rick Renner has done ...

Take your cue from the library idea, which Solomon says she has created in her own sitting room, and think about what you love to do. If you craft, perhaps this could be a good crafting room.

Iuliia Zavalishina / Getty Images/iStockphoto Luxury classic interior of home library. Sitting room with bookshelf, books, arm chair, sofa and fireplace. Clean and modern decoration with elegant ...

sitting room, drawing room, saloon, library, lounge, parlor and boudoir? GENTLE READER: These distinctions have gone out of use, as they refer to activities that have disappeared now that people ...