Ouch. You just reminded me of something.
Right after we got married, we bought this little 2 bedroom house in Newton, North Carolina. Big front porch and when you entered the front door, you stood in one of the two front rooms separated by nice cherry double doors. There were small ceramic coal fireplaces in the corners of each of these rooms and something I've never seem anywhere else. In the diagonal wall next to the fireplaces were little bookcases. They were framed in cherry, had glass doors and were the perfect depth for paperbacks (and the number of paperbacks my wife and I have are legion).
Man, there were nuances in that house that I miss still.
