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With many homes now having dedicated "Family Rooms" or "TV Rooms" all those living rooms are, like yours, rarely used anymore.

Growing up, we always had a living room and a family room. We kids were only allowed in the living room on special occasions.

The family room was where the TV was, and once we were teens, we had a pool table in the family room.

My last house (with the ex-wife) had a formal living room, family room, formal dining room, and eat in kitchen. Total waste of space, and fully furnished by Ethan Allan, so also a waste of money.

My current house has an eat-in kitchen -- no formal dining room. I made the loft into a home theater, and pre-wired everything for 7.1 Surround when the house was built.

CD
 
LOL one of the homes growing up was fantastic and I've always considered it my favourite.
Formal living room, sunroom, formal dining room, split wrap around staircase to the 2nd floor, back staircase all the way to attic, breakfast room, butlers pantry, dumb waiter - which my father promptly disabled when he caught my older brother trying to convince me to get into. I was petrified, you'd understand if you'd seen the tatty rope. Separate kitchen pantry. Master bedroom, 3 more on the 2nd floor, huge guest room with bath over the kitchen area, I had a little maid's room up on the 3 floor and mom split the attic for another bedroom for my oldest sister.
Has since been divided up into a triplex. 😒
 
You sure had big homes!
We had 1 room downstairs, a hallway, a kitchen and toilet.
Upstairs were bedrooms and a bathroom
Thats it :)
 
I'm out of hot water again. The gas pressure is just barely a trickle, but....I have central heat. If I had to select one over the other, it's all good.
 
Kathleen : sorry to hear your going through such hard times , hang in there, things always get better sooner or later
 
It will all line out. The upside, in the end, we should have a dedicated gas line and it should give us more pressure.

When I moved into this house, I had 30 amps total. The upgrades have been slow, but consistent. Tomorrow I will call if they do not call me to inquire when they are hoping to install the new line.
 
And if you have an electric kettle, you can heat water in that. My late husband had family in Australia, so the family visited. They brought back electric kettles from Australia, because they run on 220 Volts or there abouts, so that's twice as powerful as in North America. My late father in law was, among other things, a spark (electrician). He wired an Australian plug into Stirling's stove. Its one reason I want to hang onto this old stove. I have an Australian KitchenAid kettle that heats 1.7 litres of water really quickly. I'm spoiled.
 
It will all line out. The upside, in the end, we should have a dedicated gas line and it should give us more pressure.

When I moved into this house, I had 30 amps total. The upgrades have been slow, but consistent. Tomorrow I will call if they do not call me to inquire when they are hoping to install the new line.

Ummmm, 30 amps of gas pressure??? :unsure:

Methinks you mistyped, or have your gas and electricity mixed up.

CD
 
Ummmm, 30 amps of gas pressure??? :unsure:

Methinks you mistyped, or have your gas and electricity mixed up.

CD
I wondered about that too. I figure that there upgrades to more than just the gas. My place was built in the early 1970s. Our electrical has been upgraded.
 
No, we had 30 amps of electric for the entire house. The gas line had never been upgraded, but it is now deemed to be replaced since we cannot keep pressure up enough to safely run appliances.

The electric has been upgraded. The oil has been switched to gas. The structure is still original to the house.
 
No, we had 30 amps of electric for the entire house. The gas line had never been upgraded, but it is now deemed to be replaced since we cannot keep pressure up enough to safely run appliances.

The electric has been upgraded. The oil has been switched to gas. The structure is still original to the house.

Wow, that must be an old house. First, it had an oil burner at one point, and 30 Amps is nothing these days. My AC units alone are on two 30 amp circuits.

CD
 
That big house I described above originally had a coal furnace. So did my grandma's. Both were on oil by my time. Still had those radiators!
 
i like older homes ,many are much better built than any of the new ones , but they were built in a time before many of the "modern appliances" had been invented and could not anticipate what is needed in 2025 ,
i had to do an electrical upgrade on our house and it cost me over $ 8000.00
 
My father would not have done the rewiring in any of our places... but he sure would have stood over the electrician and given instructions! LOL gotta love those engineeers!
 
just to get back on track here ,
just a moment ago i got my electric bill for Jan. it was $62.00 higher than it would normally be for this month , it has been cold here this month with temps getting as low as minus 15 , it would cost me $300.00 for wood pellets to heat our house before this , so by not having to buy pellets this thing has saved me $238.00 this month
 
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