I have had complaints about my couch,

which bisects my living room diagonally, orienting the viewer towards a rather delightful view overlooking the city and its backdrop of hills, behind which the sun can be seen disappearing nightly. Altough not lacking a handful of admirers, the couch seems to provide inadequate comfort to most visitors, either they say so directly, or more often express their discomfort silently by choosing to make themselves comfortable at the kitchen table in the adjoining room, from which you only have a view of purple and pink flowers. The couch is a Danish Modern design, smaller than your average couch, with quite thin square cushions, extremely attractive actually. However, I don't think the design is the problem. The problem, rather, lies in the fact that

directly behind the couch, meaning directly behind the head of anyone sitting on the couch, is my desk.