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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.
Patricia Crosthwaite and her husband Lyle live in High Wycombe, a suburb of Perth in Western Australia. For them, their living room is "their life." It's the place where they collect all the small and large things that are important to them.
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.
We visit Edmílson Felix de Lima. He is manager of a high-rise designed by the illustrious Oscar Niemeyer.
Ivette Cob lives with her husband and four sons in Sarteneja, a village with a population of 2,000 in northeastern Belize.
Nguyen van Quy lives in Hanoi, where he composes instrumental music. He says Beethoven is his idol because he learnt nearly everything from him. The great German composer inspired him to write his own sonatas.
This time we're guests in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. That's where Ramesh Ojha lives with his wife Indu and their children Ritu and Rohan. Ramesh cherishes a picture of his mother. She passed away a long time ago and it reminds him of her.
Anjali Nambissan lives in a barsati, a rooftop home. At 26, she's living alone, away from home for the first time.
María Campos is a dance and yoga teacher and lives in Santa Ana, a suburb of the Costa Rican capital, San José. She shows us her living room and the three generations of her family.
Ralph is a DJ and music producer. His recording studio is his living room.
83-year-old Arnold Cruickshank lives in St. George's, the capital of the island nation of Grenada. He collects records and loves listening to music.
