That first one makes me laugh. What I call the living room would actually be considered a family room if a) I had a family, and b) I weren't using what the original owners considered to be the living room for my dining room. What they called the dining room I call a wide hallway.
Anyway, the living room was added on by the previous owner, and he must have been a bit electricity-crazy. There are outlets every four feet or so. There are two sets of outlets over the large windows. What this room does not have is a shortage of outlets.
As for the other stuff -- the cable TV feed (DirecTV, but it's cable once it gets into the house) emerges from holes in the floor; wall lighting is a possibility I hadn't thought of and shall; and I think wireless is sufficient for network access.
Lighting is a definite problem, though. What's currently there is totally insufficient, and I haven't figured out a way to get enough light ("enough" being defined as enough to knit and spin and cross-stitch by) into the place. It has a vaulted ceiling with cross-beams (fake wooden beams, but covering structural metal beams, I believe), and the only thing I can come up with is track lighting on the beams, which sounds rather tacky-looking. I think I'm going to need to find some sort of lighting expert to advise me. People keep suggesting a chandelier, but I think that would look stupid with the rest of the way the place looks.
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Anyway, the living room was added on by the previous owner, and he must have been a bit electricity-crazy. There are outlets every four feet or so. There are two sets of outlets over the large windows. What this room does not have is a shortage of outlets.
As for the other stuff -- the cable TV feed (DirecTV, but it's cable once it gets into the house) emerges from holes in the floor; wall lighting is a possibility I hadn't thought of and shall; and I think wireless is sufficient for network access.
Lighting is a definite problem, though. What's currently there is totally insufficient, and I haven't figured out a way to get enough light ("enough" being defined as enough to knit and spin and cross-stitch by) into the place. It has a vaulted ceiling with cross-beams (fake wooden beams, but covering structural metal beams, I believe), and the only thing I can come up with is track lighting on the beams, which sounds rather tacky-looking. I think I'm going to need to find some sort of lighting expert to advise me. People keep suggesting a chandelier, but I think that would look stupid with the rest of the way the place looks.