Our home decorating sensibilities probably differ in other respects too. But I'll bet our living rooms have the same focal point. In the year 2000, TV rules the average American house. It's high time for us to unleash our inner Ripley on these interlopers. No, what I cannot tolerate about TVs is their insidious sabotage of home design.
Nothing destroys design individuality faster than televisions, which all look rather alike.
You don't have to kill your television. But to make your house's design flow smoothly, you do have to hide it. Vanquish the Cyclops gracefully, and while you're at it throw in unsightly computer components, Sega joysticks, and stereo parts, too. They'll have lots to talk about. One of the freshest-looking homes I've seen recently is Lorraine Kirke's New York apartment, featured in British Vogue .