Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Ultimate Multi-Purpose Room

The living room in Morocco is an entertaining, dining and sleeping space.
The salon in a Moroccan home is the ultimate multi-purpose room.  It is a living room/dining room/guest room/kids bedroom. As a living room, family and friends gather hereto talk or relax.  When it is time to eat, the low, sofa-height table turns this into the dining room.  When guests arrive for weddings and other such family events, the couches (and floor space) can  accomodate them.

The nesting tables provide places for extra dinner guests
The salon is also a kids' room.  Some homes have only one bedroom, the parent's room.  The babies sleep in the parent's room.  Older kids sleep on the couches at night and put the covers away in the morning. 

Often homes, even 1 bedroom homes,  will have 2 living rooms so that children or guests can be separated by gender.

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