Yes, we have a beautiful for-show front living room with occasional holiday use.  And which in my house, makes for three sets of couches - one being in the very next room. How silly is that? I would love to move this grand furniture out and to the other side of the wall - but then what on earth would become of this front room ??  Just an empty room for-show ? Got any ideas?

LOVE this room.  Home Heist do radical but ahead of their game reno's.  Stunning. Just stunning!

Tracey x

I say why not if you have the space and/or can afford it.    If anything a special room can mean a change of scenery, which is 'as good as a rest'.   SMILES  

we just switched our seldom used dining room with our living room and now we use both rooms way more than we did before. The living room is cozy and the dining room is big and bright.

I think a for-show room is a waste of space, filled with uncomfortable 'trendy' furniture. It is nothing more than indulgence and if not that, then it's something that 'every body' does with that space, because people are drones. Eventually nobody ever sits in it, then it starts to smell weird and no one even wants to go in it anymore. Awesome.

Who do you show it to?

My parents had a for-show living room when I was growing up. We (the children) were NEVER allowed in there. We were stuck in the family room with the old couch, old TV and all of our 'stuff' (bikes, toys, books, etc.). Actually now that I think about it, the whole house was for-show, haha. My mother actually enforced the vaccuum-lines-clean rule for the for-show living room. It was used for visitors and holidays like christmas and thanksgiving only.

Depends on how you define "show" :-)

Our living room was designed and decorated with functionality in mind. The sofa by the front window is the perfect place to read, and the layout of the room is ideal for sitting and chatting with friends :-) And our Lab likes to sleep on the living room sofa!! So I would say that no, we don't have a show living room.

If you mean TV show, then yes!! Our living room was one of three inspiration rooms on an episode of Rate My Space :-)

Yes and believe it or not, I enjoy it. When our children were young it was "our" space. We could sit, talk read or listen to music with no children allowed. Does it sound cruel, not reaaly. Our children could use any other part of the home (With the exception of the formal living room and our bedroom of course) Now with grandchildren we have the same rule, and our growen children now understand that it was\is our refuge (Essentially we gave ourselves a time out so that we could rejuviante ourselves). We still use it for reading etc.

I wish I had something "to show"

Ours is a comfortable neat and tidy "showy" living room and dining room.  The furniture isn't anything spectacular, however we cherish the dining set as we splurged for something very large and well made to suit our large family gatherings.  Nothing is really out of bounds to our 4 kids (except the dining room table and chairs). But we do stipulate that the only games allowed are Monopoly and chess on the coffee table.  (Though I have seen the occassional Lego creation under the dining room table left there for safe keeping!)  It's our "quiet" room without the noise of homework or TV or brightness of the expanse of windows we have in our family room.  It's my little getaway.

Eventually nobody ever sits in it, then it starts to smell weird and no one even wants to go in it anymore.