A few years back I got tired of saying our evening prayers sitting on the sofa since it seemed so disrespectful praying while propping my feet up on the coffee table. Kneeling in there wasn't much better as we were facing the fireplace. So I set up a little table with a lace cloth and a crucifix. While I would like to do more, such as make purple shrouds for the statues during Lent, I really like how it has given us focus for our prayers.
Underneath the table we have a children's picture Bible and book of Saints so we can read about the Saint of the day and a Bible story every night, as well as a missal for the grownup's personal prayer time, and our prayer binder. The prayer binder contains pictures of each Station of the Cross and Mystery of the Rosary in plastic sleeves as well as the 4 pages of basic prayers for morning and evening (they are in really BIG type). All the standards are included: Angel of God, Our Father, Hail Mary, prayer for vocations, Morning Offering, Act of Contrition, all our God Blesses (God bless priests, the Pope, our Godchildren, our school, those who are sick....), prayer for Poor Souls, Fatima prayer, Hail Holy Queen, and the St. Michael prayer. The kids like to flip the pages and it helps them behave a little better since it mimics using a missal at Mass.
I don't claim that our little prayer corner is the fanciest or the prettiest out there, but it does the job of getting us to focus on Our Lord and that is what is important.
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