That is it!! Euonymus kiautschovicus is the glossy one. So it's a Manhattan and a Deutzia!! I'm just about to transplant both of these and this information will be very helpful in knowing how they individually grow and thrive. Thank you all!!

Central air= 20A, stove = 40A, dryer = 30A, kitchen recepts = 2 x 20A, lighting cc'ts = 3 x 15A, do you need any more reasons to need at least 100A service? Questions 1,2, and 3: In Canada, 100A service requires #3 copper and 200A requires 2/0 copper. 2/0 is just less than twice the cost of #3. Question 4: Don't know Question 5: Depends on your sky high labor rates in NYC, can't even guess.

Thanks guys! You've reassured me that at least I have a backup plan that will work. (magnaverde - that picture cracks me up, LOL!) But I think I will try to post a floor plan w/ measurements and some pics at some point (can't do it today - have some family stuff to go to) and get your collective thoughts on what kind of furniture would work in here. Maybe someone here will have the brilliant flash of insight that's been eluding me for 8 years! It's funny that you mention the weirdness of new house layouts becuase although our house is fairly new, it was built to look like a 200 year old farmhouse and many of the things that were added to give that antique charm are also what make the room so hard to furnish (a half-height stone wall along the back of the room, one entire wall taken up by an off-center colonial-styled paneled fireplace with built in closets to each side that hide the entertainment components, a good chunk of the flooring is very bumpy fieldstone - it serves well as a hearth for the fireplace but it's way too lumpy to sit furniture on, etc.) It all looks beautiful, but it really doesn't function for a family who just wants to hang out and watch tv. I will definitely do up a floor plan and some pictures -- hopefully sometime this coming week. Our current furniture is circa mid-90s, navy blue, and overstuffed (ugh, what was I thinking?) -- it served us well, but now that the kids have outgrown the jump-on-the-furniture-stage, I can't wait to replace it. I'm sure I won't have the funds for a while, but it would be nice to have a vision to save toward.

I cannot imagine watching TV in that position - I would put the TV in a different room. Otherwise I would put one sofa facing the TV with a sofa table behind it in the middle of the room, and have a conversation area behind that sofa. We have two lounge chairs facing our TV, and we moved our sofa (which no one uses) to a wall perpendicular to the TV. We have speakers for surround sound placed so that we will get the optimal effect in the lounge chairs. I have a TV in my bedroom, and I have to turn my head to one side to watch it, which I do not like, but I only watch it for 30 minutes to one hour in the morning and never in the evening.