Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

great room
. On both sides 
of the house we have a bedroom on each side and a bath-
room on each side—a master bathroom. Um . . .
WOMAN:
With a wood-burning stove in the great room.
MAN:
Wood-burning stove in the center of the great room, 
pretty much. And, um, uh . . .
WOMAN:
A stairway to go to the loft.
MAN:
Uh, a stairway to go to the loft, and, uh, step down 
to go into a theater room.
INTERVIEWER:
Now, so, what-what’s your favorite room in 
the house?
MAN:
My favorite room would be, of course, the theater 
room. It will probably be the most expensive room in the 
house, as well. 
WOMAN:
It may be his bedroom . . .
MAN:
It may be my bedroom—and it may be my 
only 
room. 
But . . . it’s, uh, it’s a, that’s, that will be my favorite room. 
You know, I feel like I’m sort of taking an ownership to 
it and getting the, uh, everything laid out in it the way I 
want to. I want to make it more like a movie theater that’s 
in the house—not, like, a theater 
room
that’s in, with 
sur-
round sound
in—that’s in everyone’s house. I-I’ve typi-
cally like to, I don’t know, maybe, go a little bit too far 

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into the, uh, design phase of that. So, I’m 
contracting 
out
a separate person to do the design, uh, of that room. 
And he’ll also be doing some of the building in there. 
Th
e walls will have wall treatments in there, there should 
be maybe either soundboard or some sort of a, um, uh, 
sound dampener on the walls. Uh, there will be curtains. 
Most, uh, family rooms that have theater, theater room 
atmosphere don’t have curtains. Th
is should have that. 
Um, just to give the idea.