Conversation pit indoor

Sunken living rooms and conversation pits are back from the 1970s. Here, we track this living room style's comeback—and share how to make your own conversation pit without renovating your home.

A sunken conversation pit surrounding a fire pit sits adjacent to the pool in this semi-outdoor space at a home in Atlantic Beach, Florida. Tagged: Outdoor, Concrete Patio, Porch, Deck, Wood Patio, Porch, Deck, Small Pools, Tubs, Shower, Side Yard, and Raised Planters.

There's a ton of cool stuff happening on the Brooklyn waterfront these days—and nope, we're not talking about Williamsburg. Dumbo boasts public art, nightlife, great food and unique architecture. Here's how to spend a perfect day in the cobblestone-lined nabe.

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From the unvarying fifties' sleek aesthetic transitioning into the mid-sixties' cultural revolution and psychedelic excess arriving at the eccentric seventies' wild parties ⎯ this piercing period of political, economic and social change embraced the novelty of the conversation pit, a piece of furniture for an emerging form of interaction....