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September 24, 2008
double parlors
am wondering how many people actually have double parlors or parlors on separate floor from kitchen/dr...do you use the living room? Have seen a few houses like this...seems odd to me.
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We have a double parlor on the first floor (along with dining room and kitchen) and I can't figure out how to use the 2nd parlor space. Seems a waste to me. Any great ideas out there? Our second parlor has the staircase in it and other closets/doors so very little wall space but substantial square footage
Posted by: WTbound at September 24, 2008 11:19 AM
We have the old layout with kitchen and formal dining room on the garden floor and a double parlor on the parlor floor. Plan right now is to use front parlor as living room, rear as library/TV room. I hate the look of a TV in the front room and we have thousands of books that need a home. I can see how this layout would not work for everyone but it suits our needs.
Posted by: zeebee_in_bklyn at September 24, 2008 1:12 PM
We have a double parlor with a center staircase, kitchen, bathroom, butlers pantry and dining room on the first floor of my home. Both parlors are equal in size. I had shelves installed along the walls and use one as a library and music room. There is a baby grand piano and seating in the library so that when we entertain which is quite often, there are two seating areas opposite eachother. I have a neighbor who converted one of her parlors into the kitchen which now opens onto the main parlor. The space that was the kitchen in her home is now an office and mudroom.
Posted by: Just Wondering at September 24, 2008 1:35 PM
This sort of layout is normal for most high stoop brownstones. We have a triple parlor. The middle parlor has a turned staircase and functions as an elaborate stair hall. The front parlor is our formal living room; we use the rear parlor as an informal family room.
The ground floor has the dining room in the front, the kitchen in the rear and various pantries, laundry room, etc.
Posted by: Bob Marvin at September 24, 2008 3:18 PM
It isn't a layout I could live with functionally and spent real money building an addition to accomodate a working kitchen on the parlor floor. I use the front parlor as a living room and back parlor as dining room.
Posted by: jfss at September 24, 2008 10:31 PM
I've had projects in which I designed them to be used as: reading rooms (works beautifully if you have enough wall space to build bookshelves), sewing room/craft room/ homework room with built in cabinets to hide sewing machine, etc. and very comfortable upholstered chairs to be used at a table, and a music / observatory room with piano and terrariums.
Posted by: jane interiors nyc at September 25, 2008 11:41 AM
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