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Adela Vasquez lives with her five children in the highlands of Chiapas. Her family congregates in the kitchen where she makes fresh tortillas twice a day on her 'comal', a traditional griddle.
Esther Yiampaine Tinayo and James Mokoire Moonka are Maasai. They show us their home near Amboseli National Park in Kenya.
This week’s Global Living Room comes from Kenya, where we visit a mother-of-four and her dog Abby.
Nitika soin Virdi lives with her husband in the Indian city of Pune. The picture of Buddha on her wall is very important to her. It represents harmony in a world of chaos, and shows that it's always possible to find happiness.
Luzmery Yancy Jimenez is 34 years old and lives with her husband and five children in La Mata in Columbia, a small village in the northern part of the country on the edge of the Ciénaga Zapatosa, a huge, tropical wetland.
Pornrat Wongjina and her husband are shopkeepers in Ban Samkha. They used to be farmers, but had to give up when he hurt his back.
Soffía Theodórsdóttir lives in a typical Icelandic home in the south of the country. She campaigns against water in plastic bottles, and in her spare time she likes to play on her old Blüthner piano.
Artists Reyna Franco and Gerald Espinoza come from Venezuela but they live in Quito, Ecuador. DW visits them at home.
Iulia Oprea was a primary school teacher for over 40 years. Today she lives on a pension of €70 per month. She loves crocheting, embroidering and other handicrafts, and even hosts a little exhibition of her work in her home.
Jenny always had plenty of room in her home near Malmö when she lived alone. But things have gotten a little tighter since she started sharing her four walls with two refugees. She says it's her way of giving something back to the world.
Navez Lozano Flores and her husband and daughter share their home with three other families. They make traditional arts and crafts, have a shrine in the house to the goddess Pachamama, and mark special occasions with a meal of guinea pig.
DW visits journalist Tonis Kipper on Saaremaa, the largest island in Estonia. His home is a private art gallery, which the public is welcome to visit. He mainly collects work by East European artists.
The Schmierers live in Hong Kong. Stefan Schmierer is a lawyer who was born in Stuttgart. His wife Elaine is a designer born in city. They have an 18-month-old daughter named Gabriella.
Mavluda Ergeshova lives in a village in Kyrgyzstan. The living room is also the bedroom for the family of five. When guests come, she cooks up a delicious spread.
Arturo Duclos is an artist and DJ. He and his wife live in the historical center of Chile's capital, Santiago. Their home and living room are filled with his artworks and also with pieces from around the world.
Sumedha Joshi and her husband Santosh live in the village of Velas. They prefer to eat vegetables from their own garden. They use cow dung as cooking fuel.
Veneranda Mukamwkama a mother of four. All her children attend school or are learning a trade. Together with her husband Samuel Gatarahiha they farm a small plot. She shows her living room.
Style coach Lisa Pippus from Canada lives with her Japanese roommate in Berlin's Moabit district. Her furnishings are a mixture of old and new styles, artworks by her father and travel souvenirs.
We visit Nataša Topalovic from Serbia. She lives together with her husband and three kids in New Belgrade. She uses part of her living room as a craft space, where she paints and creates fondant figures.
The French artist Eric Massé has been living in Mexico City for 20 years. His living room serves as his studio: it's where he eats, sleeps and works.
Gomati Devi Dohara, a farmer, shows her living room in western Nepal.
How people live tells a lot about their history, culture or social background. In the series "Global Living Rooms” Global 3000 presents homes from all over the world.
Although it's recently become easier for ordinary Cubans to travel abroad legally, most simply can not afford to do so. 82 year-old Gabriel Calaforra is an exception.
