Go on, admit it: We all like to pretend we never really watch TV. We’re too busy socializing at the latest high-octane hangout even on school nights, we cry, or too busy reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest tome to switch on the boobtube.

But deny it all we like, we all love our TVs. We’re addicted to 24, Mad Men, Heroes – and Nancy Bendtsen, Vancouver’s arbiter of great taste and co-owner of Inform Interiors in Gastown, says it’s time we were all brutally honest about our habits.

“People used to say: ‘I never watch TV, I don’t want a TV in my living room,’” she says, “but, in fact most of us do watch TV.”  Think of it as her liberating your TV – so often plonked in the worst places in a home, hidden away so that visitors don’t think that’s what we spend a chunk of our downtime doing.

“You spend all of your time in the horrid little room and no time in the living room,” she reveals in a new video and free book from Intracorp, Show and Tell: New Home Buying Secrets (which also features a plethora of insider tips). You can register to get a hard copy of the book or download a PDF here. Be upfront: Put your TV in your nicest room and luxuriate in there where you can also engage with other things such as your computer at the same time. Being truthful about our lifestyle leads to happier homes, it appears; leads to more comfortable lives.

Okay, so it might also shake-up some of the furniture on your must-have list when you’re moving into a new home. “If you don’t like to cook and you don’t like to entertain, why bother having a dining room?” Ms. Bendtsen shrugs. “Put your nice comfy stools up against your breakfast bar where you sit having your tea in the morning with your paper or laptop and call it a day.”

It’s time to break the rules. It’s time to take control. “Your home is supposed to be about you and the people in it,” she adds. “The exciting thing is you may come up with things that aren’t normal, but really work for you. And that is very cool.”

Very cool indeed.