Whether you’ve got a sprawling house in the suburbs or your first tiny apartment, most of us are happy to find a little more space. It’s usually when we have friends and family in our homes that we need to seek out that little extra floor space, seating, or table top.

One way to maximize your space is to buy furniture that does double duty. You can also use furniture that contains built-in storage. But if you find that you can use more table space, nesting tables are a good choice.

Nesting tables are a set of tables, typically two, three, or four. They are all different sizes, but the same proportions, and have bases that enable you to slide the smallest underneath the next larger table, and that set of tables under the next largest. Place the biggest table wherever you need an accent or end table, and then pull out the smaller tables when you need some extra table space-for parties, holidays, or movie night.

When it comes to selecting nesting tables, you have a few factors to consider. How “big” a nest do you want? Are you looking for a pair of tables, or do you want as many as a set can give you? Nesting tables come in different shapes; round and square are typical, but you can find small triangles, just the right size to hold a drink, and larger rectangles that can act as a pair of console tables. What kind of space are you trying to fill? How do you want these tables to work for you?

Accent tables are not the only nesting tables you can find. If want a little more seating around your living room, you can find coffee tables that nest-but with ottomans or stools that you can pull out when you need a spare seat. Just slip back underneath when the guests go home.

Nesting tables come in as many styles as any other furniture you can buy. Do your tastes run to the traditional? You can find nesting tables in antique cherry and golden oak, with turned legs and inlaid marble tops. Contemporary styles are abundant-do you like molded glass, glass and metal, acrylic, and geometric shapes? Do you favor natural materials? You can find nesting tables with tops in leather, slate, stone, tile, and animal prints.

Nesting tables are not the only form of furniture that can do a lot of work in a little space. You can find many different types of multipurpose furniture that can help you when you are looking to make the most of limited space. If you are looking for seating, you can look for storage benches. They combine a bench seat with a hinged top; they provide a deep space to store bulky items, or come with storage baskets in cubicles that let you sort the things that you want to keep nearby.

Hall trees are another versatile form of furniture that combines a storage bench with a high-backed panel that usually is installed with hooks for jackets and bags, and a mirror for a quick glance at yourself before you leave the house. They may also incorporate a few less-conventional features, such as an umbrella stand, a desk for a home management center, electrical outlets for charging your cell phone or laptop, shoe cubbies, and upper cabinets or shelves for some centrally-located but out of the way storage.

Consider these adaptive types of furniture-nesting tables, storage benches, and hall trees–whenever you are shopping for household furnishings. It never hurts to make your choices work smarter for you.

When looking to spice up your love life, many couples look for adventurous or novel places to make love. There are certain locations that enable sensual love making while others demand quicker acts of passion. A bedroom is a comfortable place to make love but there are so many exciting and lusty locations to have passionate sex. Whether spontaneous and urgent or planned for fun, sex in new locations can be extremely thrilling.

Creative lovers are always on the look out for opportunities to get wild and frisky. With the right inspiration, every day sex can be transformed into an unforgettable experience. You may have seen other lovemaking location lists but let’s push the envelope and go for at least 69 — always a good number for sex ideas. Remember that for some locations, there are pleasurable sex activities other than intercourse. Oral and manual stimulation can be just as satisfying and more practical in some situations.

1. Fooling around as passengers in a moving car (back seat while a friend drives, discreetly in a taxi, in a limousine with a privacy screen).
2. In a parked car during a romantic or exciting event (watching fireworks, admiring a sunrise/sunset, sheltering from a thunderous rain storm).
3. In a honeymoon suite but not during your Honeymoon. Elegant and fancy or themed for fun, recreate your honeymoon or practice what it would be like.
4. In a seedy motel. Arrive separately and roleplay an office coworker affair or a prostitute fantasy.
5. In a high class hotel suite with a panoramic window view — keep the curtains open if you dare.
6. In a room with at least one hundred candles casting a soft glowing light over your naked bodies while you enjoy sensual pleasuring.
7. Frosty fornication in a snow fort or igloo you made together is great fun. You can even fashion a special mound to mount on.
8. On a boat in the open air (not below deck). Consider a canoe, row boat or rubber raft if you don’t have access to a yacht, sail or speed boat with a large deck.
9. Slick with massage oil wresting on a plastic sheet or in a blowup pool.
10. In the shower enjoying the sensual, slippery suds and a hand held water massager. Intimate bathing and bonding or hot steamy sex — what ever suits your mood.
11. In an English garden surrounded by fragrant blossoms. Make it more fun by dressing elegantly and indulge in a sense of aristocratic debauchery.
12. In a gazebo under the stars, moonlight or noon day sun. Semi outdoor sex as secluded as you dare.
13. On a king size water bed fitted with satin sheets and lots of fluffy pillows.
14. In a cool, fast moving stream or small creek. A swirling pool under a water fall is an amazing location if you can find one.
15. On a swing strong enough for two. Actually swinging together with penetration is tricky, however there are many other fun activities you can do involving a swing.
16. In a hammock between two palm trees on a secluded ocean front beach.
17. In a lookout tower or observatory. Finding one that provides a scenic view and opportune privacy will be its own adventure.
18. Rear entry on a bridge while overlooking the depth below. Even more intense on a swaying rope bridge for added adrenaline rush.
19. In the stairwell of an apartment or office building — better exercise than taking the elevator. (or on the stairs in you own house)
20. On the top of a large hill or small mountain under the stars or full moon. Take in the view with a bottle of wine then enjoy each other.
21. On a train. Either in a rare, vacant car or a private cabin, “playing on the tracks” is a temptation to be tried.
22. In a van, the back of a pickup truck or on the hood of a sports car.
23. While skinny dipping at night in a pool, river, lake or ocean. Note that cool water tends to make some bits firmer while others shrink.
24. In a bath, hot tub or spa. Soak, soothe and sensually stroking each other or stimulate wet and wild sex with invigorating water jets.
25. On a roof. Outside on the flat top of tall building or (carefully) on a low, slightly sloped roof can be thrilling.
26. In a field of tall grass or flowers. A secluded, lush green meadow next to a small stream is ideal.
27. Under a cherry, apple or other fruit tree in full bloom. Enjoy the sensual sights, sounds and smells of Spring whenever you can.
28. On a pile of pillows. An assortment of shapes, sizes, colors and textures all piled for pleasure. Have a playful pillow fight. Try new positions.
29. In a barn. A horse stable may bring out the animal in you. The hayloft (on soft straw) can be extremely fun. Roleplay cowboy, stable hand or farmer’s daughter.
30. Deep in a forest up against a large tree. Agile couples can even try various positions in the tree if the branches are just right.
31. Outside in the refreshing, cool rain during a hot day or night. Thunder and lightning add to the thrill.
32. Safely under a sheet metal roof during a hail storm or torrential down pour.
33. Anywhere under the hot sun with an ice dildo. Make one by freezing a plastic water/pop bottle filled with water and cutting the plastic off.
34. In a sleeping bag in the open air under a clear sky bright with stars. Go as far away from city lights as possible. Aurora lights will make it even more special.
35. On a tiny island. Revel in quiet seclusion or spice it up with roleplay. Pretend to be castaways or, for a historic setting, a scout meeting a native first time.
36. On a beach on the hot, dry sand or right on the shore with the waves lapping up around you. Anywhere you can see and hear huge crashing waves.
37. In the middle of a sports field or stadium (golf course, soccer, football, rugby, race track, etc.). Most likely best during off season or at night.
38. In a cave, tunnel or under a bridge. The echoes of your ecstasy or the sounds of traffic overhead can be exciting.
39. On a trampoline or blowup bouncer. Standing intercourse while jumping may be tricky. An exercise ball will give a similar bouncy feeling for other positions.
40. In a small clothes or coat closet with the doors closed so it is completely dark. Will someone open it and catch you in the act? Fun at parties.
41. On a billiard table as a forfeit for losing a few games of Dirty Pool or Six Nine Ball.
42. On a fur rug/coat in front of a warm, glowing fireplace at night.
43. In every room of your home and your lover’s home if you live separately.
44. Creatively on or using stable pieces of furniture. On the kitchen counter, dining table, sofa, foot stool, etc. On the floor and up against the wall too.
45. In front of a mirror or beneath one attached to the ceiling. Get a revealing new perspective of your love making from new angles.
46. In front of a tripod mounted video camera or webcam. Record for later, view live or stream to an internet audience if you are an exhibitionist.
47. In a small log cabin, thatch hut, mud hut or teepee. Include the possibility when planning vacations.
48. In a garage, boat house or storage shed. Surreptitiously meet while others are outside unaware of your naughty behavior.
49. In a tree house or fort (either a chance discovery, your own or a neighbors). Pretend you are teenagers fooling around for the first time.
50. Next to an open fire while camping. A roaring fire stimulates passion while softly glowing embers at night instill romance and intimacy.
51. On or against a clothes washing machine especially during the spin cycle.
52. At a sex club or fetish party in a private cubicle or on display for others to see.
53. On exercise equipment at a private gym. You will definitely enjoy your workout.
54. In a dark corner of a dance club with a pulsing, pounding beat to grind to. A skirt and no panties/underwear makes this a much easier to perform.
55. In a parking lot between parked cars/vans. Try underground and above ground parking lots but take care for security systems and surveillance cameras.
56. Snuggling together in a sleeping bag in a small tent. Weather conditions, wilderness sounds or scary stories can set the mood.
57. On a designated border line between two countries, states or provinces — one person in each territory engaging in diplomatic relations.
58. In or near a cemetery at midnight during a full moon if you dare. Standing sex will have both your legs shaking with the thrill.
59. In a public restroom, change room or even a friends bathroom. Novelty and the risk of getting caught coming out together make this exciting.
60. On a plush lawn at night or early morning while it is still wet with dew.
61. In a theatre during an arousing show or to make it more interesting. Remember to bring some wet wipes to clean your fingers.
62. In a pile of fallen leaves or freshly cut grass.
63. In a bed covered with rose petals or lots of money.
64. On a private patio, porch or deck (poolside even better). A sturdy lawn chair or table, air mattress or a few seat cushions may come in handy.
65. In an elevator (late at night on a weekday might be a good time and dress for a quickie).
66. At a costume party. Dress the part for a sexy roleplaying scenario. Flirt and play act until you can secretly meet to fulfill your fantasy.
67. Out on a high rise apartment balcony or next to a large window near the top floor. Try standing rear entry while looking down below.
68. In a private adult playroom stocked with a wide variety of pleasuring implements. Bondage devices, costumes, toys and other playthings will whet your desire.
69. Inside a walk in vault (it has happened but tends to require an employee or owner to facilitate). A walk in fridge or supply room is a quick alternative.

Some lovemaking locations may actually be a little tricky, costly, too exotic or even slightly dangerous depending upon your circumstances. However, if an idea intrigues you, you can always setup a scenario and roleplay a situation in a pretend location. With a little imagination and a few props, you can create a fantasy setting to fulfill your desires. You can even recreate historical, fanciful or alien space settings.

There are a lot of factors involved in building a complete custom home theater, much more than just hooking up the components and turning on a video source. For example, such factors such as the quality of the different components and speaker placement will have a large impact on whether or not the final product meets your personal expectations, and for the best results you should work with someone that understands the complexities of complete custom home theater design and installation.

A custom built home theater can be as simple or complex as you wish. Start with a high quality visual set, and combine it with high quality speakers, including free standing floor speakers, in-wall speakers, in-ceiling speakers and more to create the ultimate sound and viewing experience. Don’t forget comfort and for the true home movie theater experience, consider comfortable theater style seating, or keep it simple with a coach and chairs. Before you decide, consider talking with a professional audio/video installation company, who will be more than happy to introduce a number of options to you.

Home electronics is an ever changing field, and things move so quickly that you want to make sure the components you purchase for your system will not only work together successfully, but also stand the test of time. In other words, you don’t want to save a few dollars purchasing outdated equipment if it means your entire custom home theater system is going to be obsolete before it is even installed. Unless you are extremely knowledgeable about consumer electronics, talking to someone that is in the field before you make any big purchases is an absolute no-brainer. Especially as it relates to home theater design, experience and the ability to plan accordingly goes a long way.

Another reason why working with a home electronics professional is a good idea is because they know the technology better than anyone, and can help you get max performance out of the components of your custom home theater, from the set and speakers, down to the DVD player and remote.

Speaking of remotes, every home theater no matter the complexity has a number of different electronics, and there are a number of high quality remotes available through professional audio / video installation companies that will centralize the control of the TV, speakers, receiver, DVD player and more for complete ease of use. You can even automate certain features like shades and lighting that will make the experience that much more complete.

Sure you could try to figure out everything on your own, but a professional will not only help you select the right equipment, but learn it much quicker as well. Whether you’re an electronics nerd into the latest gadget or a movie buff looking to create the ultimate home entertainment system, a custom home theater design and installed by professionals will leave you in awe. Instead of going to the movies and spending way too much money to sit in an uncomfortable environment with a bunch of strangers, bring the movie to you with a complete custom home theater.