Next time on Dear Alice.

This one is for living rooms, family rooms, anywhere that you're going to have a cocktail table.

Suzanne, what is the distance between the sofa, the end of the sofa and the cocktail table it's 18 inches 18 inches yeah so guys

Check yourself like really get out the tape measure and see where your cocktail table is because it really is just

exactly perfect at 18 inches. I have a funny story about this like when I was going to

design school we were talking about this and we're doing space planning and

Darren Brooks, like one of my favorite professors was teaching it and he had an

intern and her name was Cody. She was older and and she must have had some design

experience because he was just like he got to this point he's just like

Cody would you ever do less or more than 18 inches between your sofa and your cocktail table and she's like never

Never like I'm just like I've never forgotten 18 inches because of that moment never

more or less than 18 inches anyway so funny now guys yeah because otherwise the cocktail table just feels like it's out in the middle of the room

and nobody can actually use it when it's intended for.

You have to like...

You have to put your foot up there and you get a tone thing, gosh dang it.

It's gonna slide your butt to the edge of the cell.

Or you have to stand up to walk forward if you while you're crouched,

while you're crouched to put your shake down and your quads are burning by the time you get to the cocktail table.

Yeah, but really you go in those homes and those cocktail tables are you...

Like little islands in the middle of the

and it's sitting on a four by six rug in the middle of the room and you're like

what the front feet of the furniture cap said this what's the point of the cocktail table? If you learn nothing else today, just at least learn where your cocktail table goes.

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