We are walking a very fine line with this play, because the text demands specificity - real, material things that you would find in a real living room - but it also travels a TON. So we need the set to be real enough to support the play, but fluid and paired down enough to be quickly transformed. Also, the more specific you get, the harder it is to feel neutral (obviously, since they're opposites), and the less neutral you are, the harder it is to make the audience believe that you've changed locations. So our job with the set and props is to create our own version of neutral - kind of an Everyman Livingroom, that would work for the KIND of american family that we have but isn't necessarily the SPECIFIC living room of our family.
Here's an early draft of the layout for Cynthia and Darryl's House:
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