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  Family room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In many modern homes, the family room is where family and guests usually gather for television watching, informal dining, conversation, and other family activities.
Sometimes the family room is distinct from the living room, but often they are synonymous or they simply differentiate between two general-purpose rooms in the same house.
In floorplans where the living room and family room are combined the room is sometimes called a "great room".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_room   (155 words)

  
 WSVN-TV - Room for Improvement - Family Room
WSVN--A living room tends to be a bit more formal, while a family room has a more casual setting but the doesn't mean the space can't be stylish as well.
So in a family room, you're not only watching tv but the kids could be doing their homework.
This morning we took a family room that was a work in progress and we completed the transformation with all the decortive accessories that gave it a causal yet elegant home setting all for a budget of under $900.
www1.wsvn.com /features/articles/roomforimprovement/MI18479   (468 words)

  
 Ronald McDonald Family Room - About the RMFR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Families will be able to draw support from each other and from the caring volunteers who can help them through a truly difficult time in their lives.
In the Ronald McDonald Family Room, families will be able to relax, take a quiet moment and a deep breath in a warm and comfortable environment that the medical world does not enter.
Our Family Room will be approximately 2,000 square feet with three sleeping rooms, 2 baths with showers, a laundry room, a fully equipped kitchen, a library and of course a family room.
www.qualityoflife.org /ronald/about.asp   (278 words)

  
 Tips for Families (Visit the Getty)
Family Creation Station, Art Adventures for Families, Family Festivals, and Garden Concerts for Kids are just some of the special programs held throughout the year to engage the entire family.
Families are also welcome to bring their lunch and enjoy a picnic at any of the Getty Villa's public seating areas.
Family restrooms, equipped with diaper-changing facilities and a unisex stall in which you can assist a companion, are located adjacent to the Museum Store and at the tour bus drop-off area.
www.getty.edu /visit/groups/families.html   (981 words)

  
 family room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The family room is separated from the kitchen and living room by half walls.
We wanted to be able to be in the kitchen and be able to interact as well as have the living room and family room act as one especially when entertaining.
The room is completely sealed off because we had to sand drywall from the walls.
www.jakeandkaren.com /house/familyroomphotos.html   (443 words)

  
 Living Room Furniture, Modern Family Room
Formal living rooms are generally distinguished by symmetrical arrangements and by the use of traditional furnishings.
The living room, the family room, or even the den is an informal space that has become an integral part of today’s home and designed to be conducive to cozy comfort.
Your living room furniture represents the style and feel you want for your home, and is often the room most commonly used to entertain friends and family members.
www.comcore21.com /family-living-room.htm   (452 words)

  
 Remodeling your family room
Popularity as a remodel target: Adding a family room ties for eighth place, along with adding a home office, adding a sun room and installing a security system, among 23 remodeling categories surveyed by the National Association of Home Builders.
Try to plan the space by factoring the size of your family, the number of people you typically entertain, the ages of your kids and what you require from the space over the next five years, says Mark A. Brick, president-elect of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.
With family room/kitchen combinations, "as nice as they are, you have to figure out how to hide the mess in the kitchen," says Silva.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/real-estate/family-room1.asp   (534 words)

  
 FAMILY ROOM Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Family Room Entertainment is formed April 15th 2000 and is located at the Warner Brothers Studio in Hollywood, California.
Family Room is George Furla and Randall Emmett.
Family Room celebrated a successful year with a huge Hotel Bash.
www.megaone.com /indiesite/extra_page.htm   (396 words)

  
 Room by Room - Family Rooms - Electronic House Magazine
In the "old" days a family room consisted mainly of a beat-up recliner for Dad, a couch and a coffee table, and a tiny TV with a screen too small for a family of four.
Over the years, thankfully, the family room has evolved into a space that truly says "family." A 50-inch high-definition TV offers everyone a great view from as far back as the adjoining kitchen.
That's why in a room as multifunctional as a family room, a lighting control system is particularly useful.
www.electronichouse.com /info/roombyroom/familyrooms.html   (1114 words)

  
 Ronald McDonald Family Room
The Ronald McDonald Family Room extends the comfort of a Ronald McDonald House to a hospital setting.
Families of critically ill children can use the Ronald McDonald Family Room to rest, take showers, grab a bite to eat and even do laundry.
Today, there are more than 80 Family Rooms in 10 countries: Australia, Guatemala, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
www.rmhc.org /rmhc/index/programs/ronald_mcdonald_family.html   (123 words)

  
 Ronald McDonald Family Room - Dukehealth.org
The Ronald McDonald Family Room at Duke Children’s Hospital is an extension of the services Ronald McDonald House of Durham provides.
The Family Room serves all pediatric in-patient families at the Children’s Hospital.
The role of the Family Room volunteer is to staff the Room, uphold all Family Room and hospital policies and be supportive to the families who use the Room.
www.dukehealth.org /PatientsAndVisitors/VolunteerServices/Program/familyroom   (176 words)

  
 The Family Room - Portraiture by Jen - Detroit ~ Warren ~ Troy ~ Royal Oak ~ Sterling Heights ~ Michigan
The Family Room is located in Warren, MI and serves the Metro Detroit area.
The studio is in the family room of my home; it is a comfortable and inviting atmosphere where you can feel at home in front of the camera.
The Family Room - Portraiture by Jen is a portrait studio located in Warren, Michigan, Macomb county and serves the Metro Detroit area.
www.familyroomstudio.com   (483 words)

  
 Buy Window Coverings - Family Room
Family rooms, by their very name, are for the family!
It also calls for some imaginative planning, so all members of the family feel that this is truly "their" room.
Family rooms in the 90's are truly fun rooms, filled with casual furnishings and unpretentious but good, easy-going decorating.
www.buywindowcoverings.com /bwc/ddt/familyroom.php   (267 words)

  
 UQ Union Online - About the Family Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Family Room at St Lucia campus is a facility provided by the UQ Union and the University that is open to all staff, visitors and student parents, their partners and their children.
The Family Room is a place to feed, change and play with children in comfort and safety, attend to study needs or just relax.
There are no staff members working in the Family Room so anyone using the room is asked to clean up and put away anything they have used before leaving the room.
www.uqu.uq.edu.au /familyroom   (458 words)

  
 Designing a Family Fitness Room
The room had to work as part of a home and as a part of the lives of the family using it.
Rothman's plan has a distinct family-room feel: Half the room is furnished with a cushioned bench, sofa, coffee table, and shelving for books or a home theater.
In addition to a closet with ample shelving and drawers for each person's towel and exercise clothes, the bench on the room's opposite side is open at the back with slanted shelves for dumbbells or other equipment.
www.lhj.com /lhj/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/BHGFitnessRoom_05272004.xml   (685 words)

  
 Family Room
Charlie Chan's "multitudinous family" is a fascinating subject in and of itself.
Adding to our difficulty of defining the Chan family is how the apparent ages of many of these children do not match how those in the photograph would have aged over the intervening years, so, more than a little "blending" of the portrayals is perhaps called for.
While seen but rarely on the screen, the matriarch of the Chan family, Charlie Chan's honorable wife was always a behind-the-scenes source of comfort and strength for the famous detective.
charliechanfamily.tripod.com /id66.html   (4297 words)

  
 Family Room Additions, Albright Remodeling, Rochester NY, Finger Lakes NY
Albright Remodeling helps families upgrade their homes to bring them more enjoyment, provide space for aging parents, growing families, or leisurely pursuits, and take advantage of new technology for cleaner, more efficient operation.
An expansion for a growing family of a two story home in Pittsford, featuring a new family room, increased basement storage, an expanded kitchen, and a new master bedroom/master bath suite.
This Geneseo project involved removal of all the existing exterior wall to expand a new kitchen and integrate it with the new family room.
www.albrightbuild.com /family_rooms.htm   (294 words)

  
 Family fitness room lets parents get fit while children play   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The room provides customers who have small children the freedom to workout and watch their children, said John Enterman, the fitness center director.
Once an old racquetball court in disrepair, the family fitness room is now a safe haven for parents and children.
Using quality-of-life funds, the construction cost of the new room was $25,000 and another $44,000 for furnishing the room with high-tech workout equipment, murals and child-safe furniture.
www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123010681   (466 words)

  
 Sunset's 1999 Idea House: dining room, family room, kitchen
The most contemporary room in the house, the dining room exudes casual sophistication with its glazed walls, metal "candelier," and art glass shelf.
To the rear of the space are the kitchen and morning room, with sliding doors opening to the pool area.
The kitchen / family room is the hub of the house and the center of a state-of-the-art computer network, which allows the cook to communicate with workstations in the children's den and home office while presiding over the kitchen.
www.sunset.com /sunset/web/marketplace/ih/IdeaHouse0999/IdeaHouse0999DR.html   (306 words)

  
 Systems for Your Family Room - Electronic House Magazine
On Sunday mornings, the family room might become a library where the family gathers to read the newspaper.
This one box, which usually resides in the family room along with the rest of the audio/video gear, can not only deliver photos and MP3 music to your family room, it might even be able to take the place of some of your traditional audio/video components.
Of all the rooms in your home, a multipurpose family room is probably the best candidate for a lighting control system.
www.electronichouse.com /article/1340.html   (1451 words)

  
 Family Room Addition
That room is a family room, which, Carpenter says, has broad appeal to the often unpredictable mix of today’s homebuyers.
It costs $46,738 to add the family room in our project description, an investment that returns, as a national average, $37,217, or 80 percent of cost.
In a style and location appropriate to the existing house, add a 16-by-25-foot room on a new crawlspace foundation with wood joist floor framing, wood siding on exterior walls, and fiberglass shingle roof.
www.realtor.org /rmomag.nsf/pages/familyroomadd?opendocument   (248 words)

  
 RMHC Family Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Ronald McDonald House Family Room is a place where families can collect their thoughts and spend a few minutes recovering from the stress that goes along with having a sick child.
The Family Room invites parents and family members to take a brief respite from the long halls and confined rooms of the hospital.
The Ronald McDonald House Family Room is an extension of the Ronald McDonald House and provides the same warm home-like atmosphere for local families who long to be near their sick child and do not want to leave the hospital.
www.rmhcofalbany.org /family_room.html   (248 words)

  
 Family Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Family Room for a Condominium Residence Boston, Massachusetts
To provide space for friends and grandchildren, two rooms were combined into a family room overlooking Boston harbor.
Berg/Howland designed built-in storage for toys, television, books and family memorabilia to provide a framework for order when more formal gatherings are planned.
www.berghowland.com /family.html   (66 words)

  
 More Than a Laundry Room: The Family Studio
The family studio concept is a space apart from the public or show spaces of the home, where the nitty gritty of daily life can take place without cluttering the rest of the house.
To work properly, the family studio does require significant square footage that must be borrowed from existing spaces or added on to the home.
Key to the success of these spaces is a location close to the core of the home, perhaps off the kitchen or family room, in a converted upstairs space or lower-level family area.
www.bobvila.com /HowTo_Library/More_Than_a_Laundry_Room_The_Family_Studio-Laundry-A1856.html   (975 words)

  
 The family room goes digital - Digital Life - MSNBC.com
The family room is rapidly becoming the media room in many households.
Unless you’re building a separate media room, projectors may be a bit more awkward than just hanging a nice flat LCD or plasma on the wall.  You’ll need a screen, and most likely the ability to at least partially darken the room.
With projector in place, you just need the tools to create some family media, and of course the shelves are chockablock with digital video and still cameras.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6448213/did/9065084?EventID=GMRecommend   (91 words)

  
 Family Room
The Family Room was part of our project several years ago to add a couple more bedrooms and baths, taking space out of the old attic, and fashioning one of the rooms so that it would hold several beds and thus accommodate several people.
The windows in the attic, which had been purely an architectural feature to compliment the exterior appearance of the Queen Anne style home, were trimmed and decorated as a part of the new rooms.
One is a Duncan Phyfe queen bed that is placed near the exposed chimney and was in Jan's mother's family.
www.thelighthousebandb.com /family_room.htm   (570 words)

  
 At Home : Organizing : Basement Family Room : Home & Garden Television
A smaller room attached to the main room is their office, photography studio...
The main room is their social area and includes a television and collection of old sofas and bookshelves...
Next, she wants to create sections in the large open area of the room by rearranging the remaining furniture and using different colors of paint to help designate the sections.
www.hgtv.com /hgtv/ah_organizing_storage/article/0,1801,HGTV_3142_1875970,00.html   (323 words)

  
 Family Room Addition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Homeowners usually add a family room because the family's grown or because they're dissatisfied with the configuration or size of their current first-floor layout.
The attraction for home buyers is not only space but openness, because many times family rooms expand off kitchens, opening up the lower floor.
At $52,251, the family room addition of our project description has a resale value of $41,514, or 79% of cost.
www.remodeling.hw.net /industry-news.asp?sectionID=173&Articletype=1&ArticleID=1000027502   (287 words)

  
 TOH: The Bermuda House | After VR | Family Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The family room features a wall of shelves where the boys' toys are stowed in neat bins, plus a corner television cabinet.
The kid-friendly family room opens into the more formal living room behind it.
To enter another room, you can click through doors in the photo OR click on a room name on the floor plan.
www.thisoldhouse.com /toh/html/vr/bermuda/after/ber_after01.html   (132 words)

  
 Family Room Furniture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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Find product information on family room suites, sofas, end tables, armoires, upholstery, tables, and family room furniture.
You will find family room, family room furniture, furniture for the family room, family room sofas, family room tables, family room furniture units, and family room gallery.
www.sayplans.com /LetsRenovate/main_floor/family_furniture.html   (271 words)

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