Being astute designers of dubious taste, we determined a while back to make our living room the "showplace" room.    From Wordnik.com.  [MISSING COLEMAN ALERT - HUNTING BUNTING] Reference

It is thus more than a fair or showplace or carnival.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Old Lady—Past, Present and Future] Reference

Marina's room was a veritable showplace of those skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

This country of ours should be the showplace among nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centennial Business Is Your Business] Reference

It's all at CNN's number one showplace, CNN. com/LarryKing.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 10, 2008] Reference

Compared to this showplace, Op-Center was downright homely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Call to Treason]

It will be a showplace of sorts for the NRA in Times Square.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: National Rifle Association Holds Annual Meeting in Charlotte - May 20, 2000] Reference

A real showplace for red foliage and pink grasses like the muhly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sad To See Summer Go – Say Hello To Fall « Fairegarden] Reference

What a showplace it had become under his grandsons, Gene and Bob.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barney's: It Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Store] Reference

It's all at one place, CNN's No. 1 showplace, cnn. com/larryking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007] Reference

In fact, it was a showplace of all three of her guardians 'skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

Well, honey, next to mine, it's a showplace and you're a clean-freak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clearning The House] Reference

Nevertheless, at Ralph Lauren's new showplace, all faces looked bold.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Finkle: Saturday Shoppers View Ralph Lauren's New Madison Avenue Mansion] Reference

The Pryor farm was, in its own way, as much a showplace as the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Live Once]

It's impressive even today; back in 1930 it must have been a showplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth]

I could make my home a showplace to be proud of and that others would admire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Finance: Pulpit Profits] Reference

Probably -- the computer room was a favorite showplace of the front-office boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Tower]

I'd never seen her dressed like this, for a combine showplace instead of fieldwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreamfall]

The man who lives there now has restored it superbly and made it into quite a showplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]

He was stabbed and died in their arms on the marble doorstep of their restored showplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Henry Adams: Can Obama Help Us Rescue Bloomberg's Failing Schools?] Reference

The Gonzalez sisters transformed an inherited hundred-year-old house into a showplace hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet secrets of Sayula] Reference

They were rapidly transforming Finney's untidy domain into a showplace for the merchant's goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mad Ship]

For those men who wished to demonstrate their aesthetic refinement, the home became a showplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

Iraq's National Museum is a showplace of culture, but it's still trying to overcome the ravages of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2009] Reference

Fifty years after Brown's first appearance at the legendary Harlem showplace, fans are paying their last respects.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006] Reference

The end product of this process could be a showplace for Metropolitan Toronto, the province, the nation, and beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Old Lady—Past, Present and Future] Reference

Here was the greatest venue for public performance in the land: the most sought after showplace for anyone's talent.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traitor to Memory]

To native Barnard's Crossers the sprawling Goralsky showplace was always referred to as "the old Northcliffe estate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry]

Over the last fourteen years, the Guati Rojos have renovated the large house in Coyoacán and turned it into a showplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfredo Guati Rojo. Painting With Light - Museo Nacional De Acuarela] Reference

If New York City can be a showplace in hosting the Olympics in 2012, maybe if will attract tenants to the Freedom Towers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Finley: Not In Our Town, The Olympic Stadium] Reference

The stadium is supposed to be a showplace — suitable for the contending team that the Lerner family has promised to build.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Nationals No Longer An Orphan] Reference

She had wanted to purchase something a bit smaller, but Keith had insisted that a doctor of his standing needed a showplace home.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Baby For Emily]

The Godfather of Soul will lie in repose tomorrow at New York's Apollo Theater, the same Harlem showplace where he made his debut.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2006] Reference

Homeowners want a showplace but often end up overwhelmed, out of money and frustrated with the process of overhauling their kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [DIY Network Schedule for February 2010] Reference

He also improved to 1-3 with a 6.35 ERA in five games at Yankee Stadium, which is being replaced by a new showplace across the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

The Royal Farm was a showplace of its kind, the chickens segregated by meat-birds and layers, kept separate to keep their breeds pure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Honor]

The Bruins can make the playoffs and that cures many ills, but there are real problems in a city that should be a showplace for the NHL.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the league, it's gut-check time] Reference