Downsized Furniture is a Nice Fit for Small Homes
June 17, 2004 | Levent OZLER
Darby Langdon opted out of about 3,000 square feet of living space and rooms full of furniture when she left her two-story suburban home last year for a Belltown condominium.
A bedroom suite, three or four sofas and assorted chairs found new homes in her old neighborhood. Boxes and boxes of books went to the community library for its annual sale. A huge yard sale took away everything but the weeds.
Langdon, a Seattle business executive, had planned carefully -- sketching rooms to scale, measuring furniture she wanted to move, making certain things would fit. In the end, she only needed two new things: love seats for the living room. "A big sofa wouldn't work here," she said, looking around her two-bedroom condominium, which totals about 1,100 square feet.
Sofas scaled to smaller spaces and humans haven't exactly dominated the furniture scene since the 1980s, the decade when furniture became super-sized along with big hair and big shoulders. "Think Dallas," Polly Teeter explained with a grin. "Now we're returning to people-scaled furniture."
Teeter is the third generation to run Del-Teet, a furniture store started by her grandfather. It's been a fixture in Bellevue for 75 years.
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