The floor resembles a mass of spaghetti-os, so it's good if you have a kid who dumps out his plate in the living room.  But no one who had this room nhad children. Coke habits, yes, but not children.

Don’t buy chairs like these. They just make people wonder what you did with the cats after you skinned them. And if there is a heap of flensed Angoras outside, well, it tends to put a damper on subsequent gaiety.

The sofa, you’ll note, has been carefully made to prohibit any comfortable position whatsoever. And by "made" I mean
"woven by people making six cents a day.