Near Main Street, Cathy and Tom Monroe's Victorian home is elegant, with inviting couches and fireplace in the living room and intimate high tables for dining.
The upstairs lounge, with its small glass-tiled bar, inviting couches and slick cocktail list, fills up early in the evening.
The gallery, which is comfortable and unimposing, is set up like a living room with inviting couches and vintage lamps, bringing to mind some of the cozy galleries of the East Village in the early 1980's.
The no-charge red-felt pool table is beneath antlers mounted on the wall, and the back room resembles a French bordello or English country house with its inviting mismatched couches, herringbone wood floors and framed landscapes.
There are clothes aplenty to purchase, but it is the spirit of this hidden place that creates its charm: inviting velvet couches, a lineup of bell jars containing the drawings that Mr. Marras showed at the 2011 Biennale in Venice, and a collection of sugary-pastel porcelain.
An inviting circle of couches were arranged at one end; people perched expectantly on desktops and filing cabinets.
With the rugs and cushions, your floor should be as inviting as a giant couch.
That's not necessarily a bad thing, since letting arty concepts go down easier by couching them in inviting, well-made surroundings is a skill not many artists ever learn.
Instead, she would probably spend a few weeks couch surfing, perusing Craigslist postings inviting her to "Share My Apartment" and rent a "Great Room for a Girl".
Yes, the couch is warm, comfortable, and inviting.
Inviting me to sit on a bright pink couch in her lushly carpeted office, she explained how the firm has "spread the culture of the relationship" since 2005, when it opened in Shanghai.
