Honey and I swapped our dining and living rooms to give more space for eating during the holidays since we never use the livingroom anyway. We painted but could not get the furniture back in place before she had to go to work so she left it up to me to decide what furniture stays in and what hangs on the walls with the explicit instructions not to make another phonograph room out of it. It only has 4 phonographs in it and two of them really are more furniture than machine... so, is my goose cooked when she comes home this afternoon?
Female perspective here (although phonograph biased). The room doesn't scream phono showroom at all to me. It looks really inviting and cozy with a nice but not overwhelming amount of visual interest. You fit the phono stuff in well. I think it looks great, nice job!
Hey, looks great to me. But then in my living/dining room area I now have 11 phonographs.
Seriously, it looks great and very inviting.
Clay
Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume's Laws of Collecting
1. Space will expand to accommodate an infinite number of possessions, regardless of their size.
2. Shortage of finance, however dire, will never prevent the acquisition of a desired object, however improbable its cost.