How did people watch 7" sets?

[Kamakiri]

As I've been using my Admiral and Motorola 7" sets, it occurred to me to wonder how the living room of the late 1940s 7" set owner set up their living room to use their televisions.

If it was set in the traditional few feet in front of the coffee table, people would have went blind watching TV or had to watch the set with a pair of opera glasses. Yet, I don't ever remember seeing any pictures of any living rooms with any of these sets....seems that 10" was the minimum living room size set.

We can pretty much be sure that TVs in the bedroom weren't the standard back then unless you were filthy rich.

Here's the only photo I could find that shows a living room with a 7" set, I took this as a still out of a Motorola TV commercial from 1948. They can't be more than 3 feet from the set, which is actually about right. I picture all of their living room furniture moved into a corner, and the rest of the room totally empty