Furniture and the lottery jackpot.

Every week it's the same. You buy the lottery ticket, and rather than it being the ticket to riches, it's really just a ticket to a few dreams about what you'd do with the riches, until of course the wrong numbers emerge from the machine.

In terms of how a lottery win would affect my living room, I think the first things would be a) a massive television - one of those ones you see in the shop that looks about the size of half a wall then b) a large sofa, or more accurately - large sofas, and finally c) some tropical fish.

Other essentials would be:

A Lebowski style persian rug (the more expensive the better)

Some LED lights to make the place look more space age.

And I think that's about it. Maybe a modern art picture on the wall (not the wall that the tv's on, obvs, but the adjacent wall)

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Cool TV stands

Save for a few choice programmes, i have to say i don't watch a whole bunch of telly these days. Those that I will admit to watching are:

Newsnight
Top Gear
Question Time
re-runs of The Sweeney
Masterchef

And that's about it. So my concern isn't so much 'what's on television?' so much as 'what's the television on?' as in, 'where does the television get put?'. That's actually more of a pressing concern these days than it used to be, what with the giant size of most modern televisions compared with the models of yesteryear, when even a 28" CRT was considered a monster telly. I mean, these days, that's doubled in size - check out this amazing new widescreen cinema ratio television

So, you need something safe and secure for your television. Also it needs to be a unit that you feel matches the set and your surroundings. (NB don't just attach TV to the wall, it makes the room look like a school classroom) For a modern vibe, there's plenty of choice available at your local leather furniture store and online. All you need now is something to watch. Or a new DVD box set!

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